Minneapolis metropolis council member Jeremiah Ellison and different Minneapolis council members unanimously handed a choice commencing a yearlong course of "to create a transformative new model" for public safety in Minneapolis, the place the city presently spends $193 million a yr - 36 % of its complete funds - on cops. What Does Defunding the Police Imply? Defunding the police can imply a spread of points, relying on whom you converse to. Some argue for preserving departments nevertheless drastically scaling again the job they do. As an alternative of calling upon cops to cope with the whole lot from public intoxication and residential quarrels to armed robberies and homicides, reformers would have police give consideration to a slender differ of probably the most violent threats to residents' security. However others see police departments as too dysfunctional to restore and must take away them solely and entrust public safety largely to residents who would preserve order of their very personal neighborhoods, utilizing nonviolent strategies of persuasion, turning to armed strain hardly and solely as a ultimate resort.