I would wholeheartedly support the Minneapolis defunding initiative as a social experiment if it was not guaranteed to produce a lot of victims (death / injury / emotional trauma). As I understand ethics, conducting experiments on unwitting victims is verboten. There is no broad support for defunding the police. Improving / reforming police ... absolutely. Plenty of room for that. But a violent place like Minneapolis without police ... yikes. There are not enough moving vans in the upper Midwest to handle that exodus. It is a monumentally stupid idea and anyone advocating for it should be promptly and unceremoniously recalled / fired. My two cents.