My last comment on this for a while at least is that I don't think any analysis of the effects of "defund the police" are complete without looking at the numerous and growing state and local victories of explicitly decarceral candidates, *especially* in prosecutor elections.
This electoral movement and success goes hand-in-hand with the energy, messaging, and activism and I don't think you see the sweeping change if those didn't exist.
(many of these candidates ran, to different degrees, explicitly on defund the police platforms)
Anyway this is a gigantic shift in a very quick period of time and other than a group of committed and excellent journalists (especially @Taniel) it’s gone largely under the radar https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/criminal-justice-reform-2020-election-results/
How Criminal Justice Reform Fared at the Ballot Box on Tuesday

Voters elected new sheriffs and DAs who’ve vowed to challenge mass incarceration and ICE, and they approved initiatives to curtail drug criminalization and expand voting rights.

https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/criminal-justice-reform-2020-election-results/
Also this entire thread is a bullseye https://twitter.com/wesleylowery/status/1334218467306852353
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