Calls to defund and dismantle police forces are growing, but what exactly does that mean?

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Camden, for example, chose to close its local police force “due to serious institutional problems within the existing police agency at the time,” he said. However, they did not eliminate


policing altogether. Rather, with the help of the county police force, the city changed the way policing was conducted, via retraining and a raft of new policies.