Another day, another coffee and this time we were talking about the police. My friend and I, highly-educated, professional, middle-class and middle-aged, were talking about something in the news this morning. Calls to "de-fund" the police. Neither of us supported removing police funding, Both of us supported re-directing police funds or re-prioritizing, for example to more visible policing and to less militarized weaponry. What was interesting was that we both distrust the police and that should be concerning.
