Rep. Abigail Spanberger has gone out of her way to condemn Black Lives Matter and progressives for slogans like "Defund the Police". I think she needs to read this article in The New Yorker about the police force in a California city in the Bay Area. Among other things, the article cites a study which found that police violence against citizens is much higher where police are represented by unions than those that are not. The police department in this article may be an extreme example, but the difference is in degree and not in kind.
My position on this is that we have tried police "reform" for a long time, to no avail. The problem will not be solved without some sort of defunding or other form of de-powering of police departments. Spanberger doesn't like those words. Maybe she can come up with a better slogan; I say go for it. But what I do know is that if the Democratic Party can only win elections by avoiding talking about controversial issues that make white people uncomfortable, then maybe they don't deserve to win those elections.
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