DEFUND, DISMANTLE, ABOLISH ARE BAD WORDS.

DEFUND, DISMANTLE, ABOLISH ARE BAD WORDS. THEY PLAY RIGHT INTO TRUMP'S HANDS. MANY WILL THINK THEY ARE FOR ERADICATING THE POLICE AND WILL CLING TO TRUMP AS A SAVIOR. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN! 

PROTESTORS HAVE A VALID ANGER BUT THEY SHOULD USE THE MORE NEUTRAL WORD OF REFORM. DO NOT ALIENATE TRUMP'S BASE ANY MORE THAN THEY ALREADY ARE SO THEY WILL COME OUT ENMASSE TO SUPPORT HIM AND WORSE ALIENATE OTHERS WHO MIGHT SUPPORT A DEMOCRAT BUT SIT IN TRUMP'S LAP BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED NOT TO. 

DEMOCRATS WILL BE STEPPING AS USUAL ON THEIR OWN FOOT. SAY WHAT IS POSSIBLE THEN DO WHAT IS NECESSARY.

REFORM IS A BETTER WORD

"In Veto-Proof Majority, Minneapolis City Council Says It Will Dismantle Police Department"

I am a strong Democrat, progressive and always will be. Dismantling the police sounds like eradication of it. There will always be murders, rapists and thieves. To dismantle the police and invest in community led public safety seems arduous if not a pipedream. The left of which I am a part needs to deal with realities. There is violent crime among us.  Let's take what we have in the police departments, get rid of bad apples, make certain actions like chokeholds are forbidden, make the police departments transparent and make them responsible for their illegal and immoral actions!

Dismantling police departments needs a definition of just what "dismantling" means.  If it means reform I can agree with that.  Reform must be done with precision, care and discretion. To say dismantle without any assurance that it will be put back together in some better form simply scares many into opposing the needed changes.  Dismantle is not a good word to use, reform is a better one.