You got a citation on this? Because even my city is "defunding the police" because of a budget shortage. And defunding other city services for the same reason. Police leaving in droves, according to Fox News turned out to be 90% retirement.
> Cops are one wrong move away from being in jail themselves
Okay, Tucker Carlson, sure ;-)
Regarding defunding, a very quick google search will give you the information you're looking for assuming you are in the USA.
Separately there has been attrition at the SFPD due to people taking early retirement or moving to easier policing jobs elsewhere.
https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-budget-announcement-defun...
==The SFPD were defunded==
You have not provided any evidence of this claim, attrition is not "de-funding".
I appreciate the link for the article on a proposed budget. I did some google searching (as you suggested) and found some more updated information. The budget has gone up 50% over 10 years, hardly de-funded.
"For the proposed 2021-22 budget, the San Francisco Police Department’s allocation will decrease by $6 million, from about $668 million to $661 million. Those cuts can nearly all be attributed to decreased demand for police at the airport. However, in the following fiscal year, the city projects the police budget will increase once again to $689 million. That’s close to the police budget’s all-time high of $692 million in FY 2019-20. By way of comparison, in FY 2010-11, the police budget weighed in at $445 million."
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
Citation please. How much money was taken away and where was it put?
==especially those who are most vulnerable.==
Am I to believe that the staff who fled the department because they disagreed with the politics are now deeply concerned about the "most vulnerable"? Seems the best way to help them would be to focus away from after-the-fact prosecution and instead on community outreach.
etc etc
So what, I'm one wrong move away from being in jail. Everyone is. That's how law works.
Citation needed.
Seriously. NO ONE has been defunded anywhere in the country.
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...