Defund the Police?

Seriously?

You think the only way to deal with police brutality is to take away police funding and let the cops enforce the law for nothing?  You think the cops are going to foil bank robberies if they're not going to get paid to do it?  You think police detectives will be able to track the robbers down - or solve cold-case murders - without the funding they need for equipment and fingerprint detection?  What, you want to farm all that out to private eyes?  Is that your message, guys?

Actually, that's not the message these activists are trying to send.  The intended meaning of their slogan is to spend less money on the police and put more money into social programs and education, which would deter crimes by giving people less and no reason to commit them.  Okay, I get it, you mean like cutting the military budget to fund schools, health care and Amtrak.  They don't want to zero out the police entirely.  Well, that's not what the slogan conveys.  It makes it sound like they do want to zero out police funding.  But when you consider that protesters like the one in the left-hand corner of the photo above are the type who think you need to hold a mask with your hand when it's already strapped on to you good and tight, it makes sense that they don't think things through.       

Both Joe Biden and Jim Clyburn have already announced their opposition to defunding the police, which should make it clear that they both misinterpreted the slogan and that the slogan is ripe for misinterpretation.  That's why left-wingers always lose. Their slogans keep sending the wrong message. 

And by the way, "defund" is not a word.  My spell checker keeps flagging it.