[yoe]

"“Democrats are eager to rewrite history and hide their advocacy for ‘defunding the police,’ but creating a bailout slush fund and funding law enforcement are not the same thing,” Cotton said in a statement. “My bill will immediately fund two federal grant programs to support police officers and establish a trust to maintain these grants for decades to come.”

Oh yeah! Senator Thomas Bryant Cotton, you GO! De-fund De Poleece, mantra is already being blamed on former PRESIDENT DJ TRUMP and the crime rate is up under the Biden Administration....

[Jonny7797]

So federally funded police. Back door federalization in the name of safety.

[Paladin2]

Giving more money to the DoJustUs is an unforced error.

The DoJ needs to be defunded.

[amnestynone]

If Democrats want to defund the police let them. Let them learn from their own mistakes.

[RAldrich]

So what happens is - the local government takes the money they had already budgeted for the police, then transfers it to curry favor with some group of supporters (like gay support organizations, solar panel manufacturers, casinos, etc.), and the money they siphoned off that was originally intended for the police is replaced with the Federal money.

Money is fungible. Like raising local taxes ostensibly for one purpose, which has support, and then doing a slick under-the-table transfer to a group of favored campaign supporters. Happens all the time.

Localities should be made to fund their local police forces themselves, not be encouraged to sponge funding for the police from the Federal government.