Instead of "defund the police", I think we should say "demilitarize the police". Whether or not that includes defunding could be left to individual departments to propose how/if they would shuffle up their allocations. We can take any next steps soon thereafter.
My perspective on it is that thee and me are statistically the least likely people to need to worry about it. Do I think it'd be an easier sell for Grandma Duluth? Fer sher. Does "demilitarize the police" get people to flood the streets? I don't think people pull down statues of Lincoln without already being in an unresty mood. Someone spraypainted "this is unceded Duwamish land" on the streets around here and hey - I'll take that over swastikas and "pinochet did nothing wrong" memes. But yeah. Retiring the big iron is a gimme. From a simple game theory standpoint if you have it, you're gonna use it - if shit goes wrong and you didn't use it, you're at fault because why didn't you do everything to protect the Blue Lives that Matter? If shit goes wrong because you used it, you can go "hey our standard doctrine is to use the most appropriate means necessary to limit the risk to our Brave Officers Whose Blue Lives Matter and we regret the glitch."