The Defund the Police Movement Has Found their Replacement for Law Enforcement

Lies that police are unqualified to address mental illness will result in unnecessary injuries and deaths. These are attempts to undermine and delegitimize law enforcement institutions.

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I won’t bury the lede: I claim that the defund-the-police movement is using paraprofessionals and co-responders to usurp the traditional domain of law enforcement. Here is a quote from The American Prospect in an article on April 10, 2023, titled What Defunding the Police Actually Looks Like:

By shifting public resources t…