Just listened to @mfdii's powerful DevOps Days talk on change and you should too. I have a few thoughts on "Defunding the Police."->

For one, I don't think Defunding the Police means you don't want "Law and Order." Defunding the Police *IS* Law and Order.

Taking funds from Police (or wherever) to invest in other programs that give people the opportunity to live a pleasant and respectable life every American deserves, means fewer people are forced into crime to provide for themselves and their family. This is "nature vs nurture."

The system we have in place today "nurtures" criminals, of which more Police are needed to, well, "police."

In a lot of ways, I see the purpose behind Defunding the Police akin to how we think about Agile methods and practices via a culture of DevOps->

We shift welfare as far left as possible, so as a person journies the "CI/CD pipeline of life," their chances of going to the "prod of life" at quality, aka having everything they need to live a good life free of criminality, is much greater.

In a lot of ways, Police are runtime security; if what is running in the prod of life is "quality," there is much less to "secure."

Anyway, Ducy got me thinking, and maybe my points are a stretch to align on, but no matter what you think of my points, we need a lot more funding in building better people and if we have to take that funding from Police, I'm fine with that.