A lot of the analysis of whether or not "defund the police" messaging was effective seems to overlook any discussion of the number of municipalities that have diverted $ from police budgets in response to activist. Seems a crucial component of "effectiveness"
Anyway, got into the core and ideology of the demand in my piece from Minneapolis on George Floyd https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/wesley-lowery-george-floyd-minneapolis-black-lives/612391/
Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point

Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/wesley-lowery-george-floyd-minneapolis-black-lives/612391/
Believe it or not, the goal of most activism on the left...isn't to win House seats for Nancy Pelosi
I think I've said this before: but too much of our public discussion of criminal justice is through the lens of national politics -- which is not actually how most CJ policy (much less activism) works in this country
Anyway, maybe there were a ton of House Dems who ran on "defund the police" and lost. But I don't remember that being the case.
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