At its extreme, the defund the police movement is a welcome embrace of anarchy. Don’t take my word for it. Just look at the six blocks in downtown Seattle that the police and local government have ceded to protesters, where two shootings over the weekend left one person dead and two others injured.

The abandoned area, known as CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) or CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest), is now under mob rule — an island on American soil where constitutional rights and state and local laws don’t apply.