IMHO - Obama’s purposeful stoking of racial conflict in cities over “police brutality,” if you watched the upshot, was to promote much stronger management/control of local police via “civil rights” actions and directives from the DOJ
“Defund the Police” is another pawn in this game. As you can imagine, there is no leftist/Democrat call to “defund” any Federal police or intelligence agencies, of which there are dozens.
The goal is to control, if not outright federalize police. Then the potential for local cities, counties, states to declare non-enforcement of statist/Fed.gov edicts become steadily reduced.
The goal is to negate all local and state control. Look at the school systems. Department of Education in DC has sway over local school districts.
You definitely are t wrong.
The goal is to control, if not outright federalize police.
That’s exactly what the goal is. That way Big Fed controls it all and dictates all.
Interesting thing, though. I have a friend that is a recruiting manager for a company that provides large scale security services for the feds, all over the world and country. US Dept of Labor conducted a study that showed every year there are 5% fewer people willing to become cops, firemen, EMT, or join the military. And they traced the trend back a few years. So, now we’re at around the 70-75% mark. And the trend is continuing. Pretty soon, cities/towns, etc won’t have to worry about defunding anything as there will be no qualified candidates, for any of those jobs.
But, at the same time, in this age of The ‘Rona, if there are cops that are willing to cite or arrest a taxpayer for not wearing a mask, then defund that position on the spot.