Yes, IIRC, most Black people - if anyone bothered to ask - were not down for “defund the police” thing, it was more the white knight types that were having a meltdown on their behalf.

I don’t think any (reasonable) person can deny that cop-on-Black crime is awful and problematic and something like BLM was nearly inevitable as a result of this egregious criminality, but the answer is most likely not to turn your neighborhood into a war zone by defunding the police. White people wouldn’t want the lawlessness that is sure to result in their neighborhood, WTF would they think that Black people would?

Anyway, I know many people were saying “it doesn’t really mean what is sounds like”, but yeah, the messaging is fucking terrible, and yes, some people were proposing exactly what it sounded like too, so…get a much better slogan and messaging around it, maybe? If you want to disband one department and replace with an all-new one, for example, say that.

Again, all this seems almost perfectly designed to hand our country over to fascists. There are some on the left that will call you all kinds of names for pointing out what is fairly obvious, though.