I feel like this should be clarified... I am a "Dolly Parton Conservative", and I absolutely think they should defund and REFUND the payments by the taxpayer of the employment OF *some* law enforcement. Context: most of my family are current or former law enforcement officers in multiple states
The issue: Have you actually seen NYPD's annual budget?! I can't imagine much of anything worse than 9/11 happening in NYC so we have so far established that: 1) NYPD's budget is higher than most countries' GDP. And 2) 9/11 still happened IN SPITE OF THIS FACT
Then, I hear from the "Right", and bizarrely, Libertarians sometimes as well that Law Enforcement Needs More Money™ For fucking WHAT, exactly? Buddy, the Ventura PD rolled up into Los Angeles so hard people literally thought they were the Marines that Hegseth sent
What could the police department who's function is to stop crime, do about planes slamming into buildings. And again funding is nothing without accountability and training in violence prevention. If there not using there budget properly then they need to be held accountable.