I think that if the local communities want them defunded or reformed, that is their right to do so. However, there are real life consequences to allowing an increase in crime, especially violent crime, in the area, not the least of which is people with the means to leave to actually do so, with the poorer less mobile people left with even bigger problems. If that is what they want at the local level, then so be it. Their property values will collapse if it goes wrong though, and investments in those areas will diminish. Not my problem. Criminals must be protected, their victims, not so much.