[antifa]

> "defund the police" [...] "din't mean it that way."

That was definitely a confusing time when multiple people meaning different things were using this slogan.

> Many people suspected "defund the police" would lead to an increase in crime, and said so. [...] Now that crime has risen in the past couple years

This probably looks like a "gotcha" to the average person not paying attention, but AFAIK not a single police department was defunded. In fact many had budget increases, including political support from President Biden himself.

The implication that somebody is backtracking on the slogan because defunding (which never happened) caused a crime surplus is rather hilarious misinformation.

Now deal with the fact that crime and police budgets both went up.