The whole point of the cartoon is that tackling the underlying causes of such issues might make them easier to fix.
That it'd take a while to make significant progress isn't a reason not to start.
Sure, just like no one actually knows what "critical race theory" actually means. A concerted effort to encourage these misunderstandings hardly helps.
EDIT: While there's many factors that drive crime, crime was lower before the defund movements.
> crime was lower before the defund movements
Remind me, did anything else happen in 2020 that might have had an impact on crime?
A global pandemic is a shitty excuse for these hyper-local phenomena. It's not covid; it's the voting public of San Francisco (and two or three other west coast cities) and the disastrous politicians they elect.
https://www.vox.com/22344713/murder-violent-crime-spike-surg...
Affordable housing is a notable case of the last one, it's very very expensive to build in SF and nobody actually wants it. The reason people dislike "luxury housing" is that it actually exists, so they want "affordable housing" because they know it won't happen. When it actually shows up, they oppose it too.
It does demonstrate that anything presented in cartoon form is probably false, because the people drawing cartoons are not specialists in whatever the topic is. Basically Gell-Mann Amnesia.
Evidence does not support your claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/19/alexandria-k...
Social workers, in conjunction with police, have resulted in a drop of repeat calls and cost less than hiring another officer.
If you want to hire social workers, which is a good idea, say that instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police
> "Defund the police" is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.
"Education" is a trick because the same taxes don't fund police (cities) and education (school districts). Making one go down wouldn't cause the other to go up, or even increase voter support for it.
Other things, like education, are actually unrelated because they're literally different tax districts (eg property vs sales tax) applied to different people. In that case you can't vote on defund + fund at the same time. But also, some people just don't like taxes, so if you put the defund one first they'll take it but not use it to fund anything new.
And many people think homeless people ended up there by doing too many drugs or other moral failures, but it's more like being homeless is really bad for your mental health and there's nothing else to do.
Then Reform the Police would have been a better marketing slogan compared to Defund the police.
https://i.imgur.com/8xlOIW9.png
The whole point of defunding the police is to get the funding back to where it belongs.
https://citymonitor.ai/government/the-reality-of-us-city-bud... - The reality of US city budgets: Police funding eclipses most other agencies’