SAN DIEGO —
While San Diego continues to resist calls for huge cuts in police funding, some city leaders have begun lobbying for a comprehensive analysis to determine which Police Department functions could be revamped or handled by other agencies.
City Council members endorsing such an approach say it’s likely to result in much slower and more incremental change than sought by groups that began chanting slogans such as “defund the police” after the death of George Floyd last year.
Those council members contend that thoughtful analysis and targeted changes make more sense for San Diego than potentially knee-jerk reforms.