country have come together to demand changes in policing following the death of george floyd rianna taylor richar brooks and generations of blacks who've lost their lives to overzealous pulling things the idea of defunding the police is a new at all nor did it actually originate from black lives matter. the calls have rung out for decades especially in the nation's most over police and under-served communities deep on the police doesn't mean eliminating all police funding it means police will not be overfunded it means redistributing city budgets the from the police means narrowing police services because police officers aren't mental health counselors they're not medical professionals they aren't education specialist most police in calls in america are for nonviolent offenses officers are being deployed daily to address homelessness mental health episodes school disruptions and parking tickets. all things that police are not necessarily the best equipped to trying to do well maybe the parking ticket police department budgets have exploded largely due to the war on drugs and the war on terror today poli