Leftists shout about shifting money from police into education or healthcare to solve the same problems. Spending on policing is $0.1 trillion. Spending on education is $8.1 trillion and healthcare is $3.5 trillion. If you took 100% of police funding, you wouldn’t increase education and healthcare spending by even 1%. Defunding the police to fund education and healthcare is a lie.
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I got 115 billion from state and local alone. But this does include police at correctional facilities.
I was just curious about running some back of the envelope math on the defund the police proposal. A cursory amount of investigation shows the defund proposal is absolutely not a real pathway to solve the crime problem.
It also makes intuitive sense. There are way more people working in healthcare and education than police. What is the headcount of your local medical offices, hospitals, and schools versus the police department? If we went with a leftist planned economy fantasy and turned every cop into a doctor or teacher, it would be a very small gain for those other two systems.