re: What is the motivation for these large Democrat cities to defund police

The Dems played the mob thinking they could control it and sway middle class voters at the same time. The ploy was that the mob would
Create chaos and Biden would seem as the candidate who could bring back stability. The problem is that they lost control of the mob. They don’t learn from their own failures. Same thing occurred in 1968. They lost control of the mob they played to and as a result Nixon won big.