The Childish, Utopian "Defund/Abolish The Police" Movement Will Fail

There are a number of silly, non-solutions being proposed lately, particularly police defunding. The Minneapolis City Council recently elected to disband their department, a futile and childish measure. Scott Greenfield's sensible take shows exactly what's on the line for the comfortable people making such demands:

But there will still be crime, because people will still be people just as they’ve always been people. Not every garage will be broken into, but some will. Are you willing to let it slide? Don’t call the cops as they won’t come. Don’t complain that they aren’t on the streets, as the twelve cops left on the force are busy busting stare rapists who are traumatizing strong and fierce women survivors.

How exactly this theoretical scheme that aspires to be “transformative” is supposed to work is anybody’s guess at this point. It’s not as if anybody has thought of any this through, and given the tendency to make word salad for dinner, it’s not as if their supporters demand specifics rather than meaningless vagaries about whiskers on kittens.

But Lisa Bender came the closest to spilling the beans when she told her constituents, flat out, that if they aren’t willing to take a garage break-in for the team, then they might as well wear Klan hoods. And if they break-in to your comfortable white privileged house after the garage has been emptied, who will you call?

There will always be simple, easy, wrong answers, and this is one.