“Defund the police” turned out to be a really unpopular slogan outside of certain circles, so activists aren’t using that term anymore.

Psychologist and “defund the police” advocate Phillip Goff doesn’t use the word “defund” in his latest New York Times op-ed. The closest he comes is this line: “If throwing money at police and prisons made us safer, we would probably already be the safest country in the history of the world.”