Thank you for the question.
I believe that I am talking about reallocation to some extent, of course, as well as substantively cutting police budgets, but also about reducing the scope and power of police, just to clarify.
I think it's very important to understand that these calls are explicitly addressing moving that money out of policing, period, and into a community or another more appropriate organization. This is just because of the ongoing link in the ways that even when police are accompanied by a social worker, it still can lead to the harm and death of somebody in police custody. It really is about minimizing the encounters in order to stop the harms of criminalization, to understand that even though police stops and carding are not a direct harm on the body, those are harmful as well. That, of course, is not only about reallocating but about actually evading that interaction altogether, which can't be done by just moving money around within the police budget.
It's not about training police to be better social workers or better harm reduction and drug overdose responders, but about actually just having appropriate responses to mental health crises, to drug overdoses, etc.