I don't like it, it's a blatant concession, BUT he hasn't changed or updated his policy of virtually stripping the police of most of their "responsibilites" when it comes to "managing" the public, nor has he walked back his roundabout budget freeze

If we dispense with the doomerism and assume with some grounding that this concession is simply designed to temporarily get the elites off his back and create some breathing room for his crucial but vulnerable first 100 days, then Jeffries's comment about him keeping Tisch seems to signal 'mission accomplished'

I've never been particularly put off by his walking back of "Defund the Police", considering 5 years ago MOST OF US here also critiqued that slogan as a liberal concession in itself and at worst a cynical co-option

We wanted abolition and while Zohran's stated policy is not wholesale abolition, barring police from responding to mental health crises and handing the responsibility over to social workers while freezing the police budget are two of the prerequites the abolition movement has been pushing for decades