James Carville is on tv again warning Dems not to alienate moderate voters by being too woke

[Caliman73]

130. And unfortunately it works.

Which is why right wingers like to lie about it. If you abolish the police, like Democrats want to... chaos will reign. Black people will come to your house, steal your stuff, rape your wives and children...etc...fucking etc... AND PEOPLE FALL FOR IT.

I am not particularly in favor of "Defund the Police" as a slogan, only because it is too easy to corrupt it, as has been done. I am in favor of using the billions upon billions of dollars used to arm police and put more and more into our neighborhoods, and use those funds for social services that build up communities rather than surveil and police them. A person with a home, a good job, with goals, with access to health services, and with connections to their community is way less likely to commit crime than people who live in squalor, where they are isolated, lack resources, and see illicit activity as their only shot out of that existence.

Police do not provide any of the things I mentioned above, and they take up the vast majority of city budgets. The slogan I would choose is:

Fund Communities. Decrease Crime.