By Jared Evan

Once the protests had calmed from a violent first several  days to a more peaceful vibe , a major plank of the George Floyd movement in coordination with Black Lives Matter, NAACP and other groups has been heard loud and clear above the chanting and shouting: de-fund the police.

Mayor de Blasio does not want to dissolve the NYPD however he is proposing, redirecting funds.

Some are calling for incremental replacement of the traditional police force and replacing it with community forms of policing, others are calling for some police funding to be redirected to social justice programs as opposed to law enforcement

AP reported: The group MPD150, which says it is “working towards a police-free Minneapolis,” argues that such action would be more about “strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention.”

Essentially the activists are calling for a slow dissolving of the police, and most  elected officials are expressing what Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on CNN, part of the movement is really about how money is spent.

Mayor de Blasio introduced a 4-point plan: shift funding to youth and social services, transparency of police discipline, move vendor enforcement out of NYPD, bringing community voices into senior levels of the NYPD.

“Policing matters for sure, but the investments in our youth are foundational,” the mayor told reporters in a City Hall press briefing. “We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.”

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has been among the loudest voices for de-funding the police, although details of his plans have not been specific. “We are here to change the framework and he’s setting us up for failure,” Williams said of the mayor, according to PIX11

Initially de Blasio seemed against the cuts to police or the concept of de-funding the police. At a previous press conference the mayor said “I say to people that say ‘defund the police,’ I understand the impulse but that is not the way to move forward and misses the reality we are facing right now.”

De Blasio seems anxious to meet some middle ground of the further left-wing City Council.

Even on Friday after New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for $1.1 billion to be cut from the NYPD budget over four years, $265 million annually; de Blasio resisted.

To cut the budget, Stringer advised suspending hiring new police officers, cut overtime by 5%, and trim Other than Personnel Services by 4%, The Blaze reported.

For many in the George Floyd protests shifting of funds is not enough. When Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) appeared to speak to a Black Lives Matter protest, a young activist tempestuously told him to leave the protest after the mayor rejected the idea to completely de-fund the Minneapolis police force. The young liberal mayor had to walk thru the huge anti-police BLM crowd in shame for his refusal to completely capitulate to the far-left demands of the George Floyd movement.

Will de Blasio’s nonspecific gestures be enough for the revolutionary front which is gaining a foothold into policy making?  The mayor reassured the average New Yorker that he would not endanger citizens with a radical dissolution of the NYPD.

The NY Post reported: De Blasio insisted that any cuts made by the NYPD would not be at the expense of public safety.

“I want people to understand that we are committed to shifting resources to ensure that the focus is on our young people,” he said.

“And I also will affirm while doing that, we will only do it in a way that we are certain continues to ensure that this city will be safe.”