Like most things in America, the job of handling a crisis caused by the upper class desire for wealth at any cost becomes imposed on people with the empathy that lets them take low wages. Defund the police was a cry to shift money to social services and treatment—but no city official gets reelected spending on the vulnerable. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/security-guard-public-safety-portland.html?unlocked_article_code=g3DcHuqRgVoyabLvDy0wqGXpQu_5x4vUQfoBMg4iQoXE51mW2PoF-hprskhRIy2npZFNQy2G5hvUNcycwc4GhfE89EYc1HddkO0Ff1Q4rtDc0SDB3EHClzCuibQ9o-z90EVqMcsI6c0bulNCXpkZHwLHwS4jhwb78BUImXCbmhM2fa77Xa-895Vpz_WAZ5_AKynaTV9KKaVf179-0xMscb_TAM4-Rus_WL0_yxWkGSGuwWbe4Nnn2BK6D6b3jebfIvi9AC_kzx7GfDOc699SNElFBTzS6F77ArjDRDl3ZrKx3pOMuoq-mGY4G9yXpPh0xRCkwcZFzYoJ2U3aQCcUkX9Gb2QKHig&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 

 @bb1a99d2 Harrowing. 

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“Defund” was one of the stupidest slogans ever hatched. It killed D candidates and gave power to the R’s.