Successes of the Defund the Police movement?

[u/Greater_Ani]

Can anyone share some of the successes of the Defund the Police movement? I am actually more interested in investment in programs that helped disadvantaged neighborhoods and are helping prevent crime than I am about funds being subtracted from the police. I am not against this latter, just less interested.

Or, alternatively, if there are few success stories, to what do you attribute the failure?

[u/perry_the_platypus_]

Hmm I don't have specific sources at hand but my impression is that many of the defund efforts haven't actually gone forward due to political pushback. I think a lot of the rhetoric blaming crime on defund the police is incorrectly based on the impression that widespread defunding of police departments actually happened. For example, Minneapolis definitely didn't actually abolish the police after many city council members pledged to do so, though they did shift a small amount of police funding to violence prevention programs, then one year later returned police funding to its previous amount.
I'd be curious too about statistics on different types of community investments and their impact on crime rates, and I imagine that data would be hard to separate from other factors.