Comment by war1025

> It seems to me that reinvesting budgets spent on surplus humvees on more/better school counselors is a perfectly reasonable goal.

The level of "defund" people are advocating for varies pretty wildly.

Yes, reallocating budget is perhaps a reasonable thing.

A non trivial number of the protesters are advocating for complete elimination of the police though.

Oddly enough, I'd expect the widespread riots that have continued all summer long will have the exact opposite effect in the medium to long term.