"Defund the police" is dead as a doornail

It was never going to happen. So now that it failed, what comes next?

Back in June I wrote a post predicting that the “Defund the police” movement would lose popular support, due to the wave of violent crime and the fact that people know that police do deter violent crime. I was right. A new Pew survey shows that support for defunding the police is falling rapidly, and that support for increasing police funding has risen: