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In reply to the discussion: Worst slogan ever - "Defund the Police" [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)But "the Police Must Serve the Public" is so innocuous as to be ineffective.
Until very recently, the majority of white Americans (probably the majority of Americans) would have responded, "they already are." It feeds into the one bad apple rhetoric.
A slogan needs to motivate support for change. Your suggestion lulls the "half the nation {that} still believes t isn't broken" into complacency because they already believe it does.
Reinvent the police acknowledges there are issues - which far more Americans are willing to admit this week than 3 weeks ago. It calls for change, without inherently suggesting tossing the baby out with the bathwater (without offering a solution).
It's a good starting point that hits the right balance between scaring people to death and acknlowedging the problems + pointing a direction to move.