This is terribly stupid rhetoric and used as a distraction to excuse shytty police behavior.
The police aren’t going anywhere, that’s not what ‘defund’ means. When your house is getting robbed you can still call them.
BUT there needs to be serious reallocation of funds. Go look at how much of our tax dollars get spent on police and the militarization of said police, compared to things like education and public roads. They’re treated more like Robocops than they are public servants, that’s what needs to change.
The police need to be policed, there is no oversight or accountability they’re held to right now. That’s what needs to change. Doing so won’t create this lawless Hellscape that you and other Republicans are trying to create.