electoralism

The NYPD budget is the most obvious budget to cut in order to make social programs that improve people's lives.

Improving lives will reduce crime and NYPD will be required less anyway. It's an extremely obvious shift of priorities to make. Instead of treating the symptoms with that money it can be used to treat the causes.

This is the natural and obvious progression of the state withering away that Marx talked about too. Shifting the state resources from symptom treatment to cause treatment reduces the state.