Winning and losing elections is all about messaging and presenting your message in a manner that is easily understandable. People must know what you mean, understand what you mean. Defund is not Reform. One also has to hold the elected official who are responsible for their city's police force accountable also.

I'll give Atlanta credit. That city has added funding to their city police. Added additional training, add yearly mandatory classes, recruited from the neighborhood that the new police officer will patrol. Increased the salary of police among other things. I think it's working. Time will tell on that. But is was like a light bulb went off in the mayor's office and city council. It was hey, we hire these folks, we train them, we give them the rules and regulations they must follow, we pay them, we appoint the police chief and other officials, it's our job to ensure they behave, act, police, in the way we want them to.

You're always going to have a few bad cops, even with the best oversight. But one needs to act as soon as one is seen, found. If the elected officials of Minneapolis, Portland, Louisville realized the police force belongs to them, they're responsible for it, perhaps what happened wouldn't have. Do these police forces run themselves without any oversight? It sure seems so at times.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.