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What police think of as policing and what citizens (and Vox bois and pundits etc.) think of as policing are radically different. Cops are committed to more gear and surveillance and jump-out boys and this is what they do spend money on and what they want to spend money on
So departments that nvest in meatheads in cargo pants terrorizing Black communities are framed as "needing" more by anti-defund pundits bc they have this vision that homicide detectives or beat cops are not supported bc of a lack of money rather than that money spent on knockers
This is a flaw in the logic of people who believe that police prevent crime, I'm not arguing for it. But if you talk to cops they want to invest in plainclothes, specialized units etc. because their whole argument is these are the cops who stop crime.
So it's this shell game by pundits: "we can't defund police, we need to invest more in police in uniform and those who solve homicides." But there's really no one in policing doing this and they don't want to do this because it isn't how they think crime is reduced anyways!!
And if departments want to invest in beat cops or homicide detectives, they would. They could use their money for that instead of jump-out boys. But they don't. So the big brain solution is give them more money (which they will spend on more gear and jump-out boys, not beat cops)
And again, this is only if you believe police prevent/stop crime. And this take doesn't account for abysmal clearance rates on homicides or sexual assaults in many cities. There's not a lot of evidence police do the things people who wanna give them more money say they do.
"Police departments, strengthened by their own problems, have no incentive to actually change. It is hard to imagine another agency that could use such an abysmal failure as a sign of its necessity." https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/baltimore-police-reforms-crime/2020/06/18/7d60e91e-b041-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
At the core of a lot of "defund the police is bad" talk is what @gabemschneider wrote about here: https://medium.com/objectivemedia/how-to-erase-black-journalists-824a3f97cd12
Also what you're seeing is white writers locating the Black voices they agree with, ignoring the ones they don't (or framing them as not representative bc they don't agree with the white writer). This is a game white reporters play as I discussed here https://twitter.com/notrivia/status/1105887661569523712?s=20
