The assumption of this article is that giving the police less money will somehow make them less brutal. There is no reason to think this is true, and nobody except the author and a few thousand of his friends believe it. However, because those friends were so vocal, the Republicans managed to convince the American public that all the Democrats believe this. This is why Biden has a razor thin majority in the Senate, and why he was not able to pass the police reform bill he pushed. (The link in this article clearly shows this.) To deflect the blame from himself and his cronies, the author concludes this is all Biden‘s fault because he has “shifted to the center“, and figures the smartest thing to do is to let the Republicans get back in power again. The Republicans could not have asked for a more effective “ useful idiot“.

Any program to fight police brutality is going to cost money. Catherine Pugh, Esq. suggests we need to replace the people running police training programs. I think another effective strategy would be to “Police the police” by creating an elected civilian review board with the power to discipline and fire brutal police officers. These kinds of reform strategies will cost money to implement, and there is no reason that we have to take that money away from the current police budget. Where the money comes from is irrelevant, the important thing is getting the reforms started.