Police departments, the local ones that BLM have been complaining about, not the state ones that they seem to be leaving alone at present, are locally funded. Local taxes at the city council level.
The people who live in the districts being policed already have a way to determine funding levels. These are the people who will see their property values zero out if crime and schools get bad enough. These are the people who have to live with any decisions made on this front.
So am I right in assuming that this is a plea to have outside interests tell local residents how their tax dollars will be spent and how their local government will be administered?
The Utopians want a federal police force, all the better to herd the masses into the camps.