I assume you refer to the "defunding of the police"? That this could happen at all is just another indication that the basic structures of governance are badly organised where you are. Here, there is complete separation between the police (paid for by a local tax but organised much more nationally) and local government. This also applies to traffic enforcement, so that traffic fines accrue to the state, not local government. I observed this at first hand when I had a speeding ticket in California. I went to traffic school and at the close of the session, a little old lady asked whether quotas existed. The convenor (an off-duty San Francisco cop), eventually said "Yes, but no one would ever admit that publicly."
What this refers to (I eventually discovered) is that if the city runs low on funds, the Mayor tells the police chief about it, and the traffic cops get told to go out and not come back without (say) three sitter and four movers. Meaning that, as a way for the city to raise some funds, they book people for trivial infringements that would otherwise have been overlooked. This smells like legalised banditry to me.
It comes down to structures, and you folk need to realise this.