This too short interview from Rachel Maddow's show is the best one I've heard about the "defund the police" idea. The slogan, like so many slogans, is more trouble than it helps because no matter what anyone who puts on a white collar and babbles on TV or the radio or on a podcast is telling people, there will be police in the future. The problem in places with corrupt police departments now isn't going to be solved by not having police. The idea of dissolving the police department so they can get rid of bad cops protected by the old system and corrupt police unions as they reform a new police force might be the most workable, as long as the corrupt cops that don't get rehired don't just go to be criminals somewhere else.
But the problem is a lot bigger than just bad police and a corrupt system, as Mr. Goff points out, it is a problem of Black Communities having been cheated for decades and centuries - and other communities where there is a systematic system of inequality. There are states and regions where the same thing happens to Native people, Latinos, LGBT people, and others.
I don't see how this will ever be solved without getting rid of the corrupt police unions and the disgusting industry in encouraging cops to murder people such as John Oliver documented on his show the other night. All of that should be ended, any police union that encourages police to murder people should be gotten rid of, if there is no law that allows a union that encourages police to murder people to be decertified, there has to be one.
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