What was done in Camden NJ seems to have worked. But to call it "defunding" is asinine.
"Restructure, retrain, reassign dollars" is what happened. Dump the expensive Unions. Restructure the out of control pensions of all Municipal Employees and reassign those dollars to put more (properly/better trained) cops on the street, to create programs to reduce crime. I think we'd all be in favor of that. It's all marketing and "Defunding the Police" is a ***** marketing nightmare.