This makes it sound like the police are going to be defunded entirely then nothing will take their place/the money won't be used in other areas to tackle crime. This article does a good job of expanding on it past just the phrase "defund the police" and some of the potential options:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/what-does-defund-police-mean.htmlFrom my view in Finland, American police do seem to have crazy budgets and those budgets have been spent on entirely unnecessary things. It's been difficult during the coverage of the protest to pick out the police from the National Guard because they're kitted out with military equipment and it's entirely unnecessary. Actual positive change could be put into effect if budgets weren't being spent on enough tear gas to commit a war crime (speaking of...) and instead were being invested into education, drug rehabilitation and prison reform.
With breaking up existing police forces, I can see where they are coming from. Your police forces are corrupt, protected by powerful unions that shield them from any scrutiny or justice and seem to have a major cultural problem in seeing the public as the enemy. "Serve and Protect"? That seems to have been forgotten. They're dressing in tactical vests and full riot gear, armed with tear gas launchers and automatic weapons full of rubber bullets and pepper balls. Reportedly 8 people have lost an eye in the current protests from the actions of the police. 8! And that's just people that have lost an eye, not counting other injuries (tear gas is carcinogenic btw...). There are countless accounts of people shot by overzealous cops that simply don't have the correct training to be out there waving guns around. They always say they were fearful for their life and, when they're not just blatantly lying, I believe them because they've been trained to see everyone as a threat first so they panic. Tearing it all down and starting again, back to community focus and SERVING. Not brutalizing.
Now I know how it looks, I'm sharing a video from a TV show, but this speech, from this character seems to sum up America's police problem. It goes beyond the War on Drugs, but that has been a significant contribution to the current systems in place. They think they're at war, so of course they act like warriors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5za4VsskM