Did you read the whole thing or just focused on the paycheck part?paychecks? Defunding the police is definitely not about that. Pretty sure the police in the US isn't making cocaine amounts of money.
And the police are making quite a bit of money, especially the NYPD. I think part of it is due to overtime.
Community policing and all. Lot of people say that cops don't do much and often make the whole thing worse. If you call the cops to rein in a person with mental health issues safely, the chances are they'll get violent or even kill the person. Victims of sexual assault have also said the cops don't do anything to protect them or barely do anything to apprehend the assaulters, or even protect victims of domestic violence.If it were that simple. Americans are way too polarized so any message that is anti-right is considered a democratic message and to an extent, vice-versa as well. Trump used that to attack Biden.
If you are in a neighbourhood where police are defunded, how do you expect to defend yourself from people's attacks? Lesser police means higher possibility of crime, so people are likely to buy guns. Heck, if i was in Texas or Georgia, i would've bought it too. But where i live, nobody owns one.
Biden didn't do well, that is a fact. If you check the 3rd party votes that didnt go towards Hillary, those have gone to Biden showing a bigger gap. This election was lost by Trump, not won by Biden. And defunding the police would have played a part...