One aspect of "defunding" the police is the de-militarization of police, meaning stopping the practice of the military sending excess equipment to police forces.
Obama tried to reign in this practice, with JBear's blessing as you can see below (bold). Trump then scuttled the reform
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/03/how-police-became-paramilitaries/
"This Defense Department initiative, known as the 1033 program, requires that law enforcement agencies make use of such equipment within a year of acquisition, effectively mandating that police to put it into practice in the public space. The Department of Homeland Security also has a terrorism grant program that has given tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to local police forces to purchase military equipment directly.
There have been efforts in Washington to scale back the Pentagon program in particular. On Capitol Hill, Senators Brian Schatz (Democrat of Hawaii) and Rand Paul (Republican of Kentucky) have repeatedly introduced a bipartisan bill, known as the Stop Militarizing Our Law Enforcement Act, in multiple congresses; Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia, has made numerous similar bipartisan efforts in the House. In 2015, President Obama did put restrictions on what could be transferred by the Pentagon from war zone to police forces, weeding out some of the most excessive weaponry. His executive order prohibited, for example, tracked armored vehicles with ballistic protection, weaponized aircraft, vessels, and vehicles, as well as grenade launchers and bayonets. Wheeled armored vehicles, like the MRAPs, faced some controls but were still permitted, along with unfettered access to specialized firearms and ammunition, explosives and riot shields and helmets.
None of these efforts, however, seem to have stemmed the militarization of policing. In his first year in office, President Trump reversed the Obama administration’s restrictions, at then Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s behest. Neither of the Senate and House bills have yet to receive a majority vote and become law."
In other words, Dems are now trying to pass a "defunding" bill, in part, because most (not all) REPUBLICANS have resisted demilitarizinf the police, so much so that Obamma had to issue and EO that Trumpo then reversed.
Just one example, but obviously this is one aspect that all you Libertarians (likeJBear) support wholeheartedly, right?
C'mon . . you know who you are . . lets see you post your support for the Dem bill, you wacky Libertarians!!!
