This would indicate that you think the status quo with regard to policing changed immediately prior to, or at the onset of 2020/21.
There was a discontinuity in the status quo in Summer 2020 with the George Floyd riots in many US cities, including Atlanta. Those riots also led to many mayors and city councils turning against police.
In Atlanta there were George Floyd riots where ATLPD was ordered by our mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms (who had the vainglorious hope to become Biden's running mate at the time) not to do shit against the rioters, with images like these being the result.
The rioters then moved from Downtown toward Buckhead, ending up at the Lenox Square Mall where they looted a bunch of stores.
Then a drunk driver passed out in a Wendy's parking lot, resisted arrest and attacked police officers with a taser he stole off them. When he was shot and killed, that triggered more rioting and more inaction by the mayor. In ended up with rioters burning down the Wendy's and establishing an "autonomous zone" which they guarded with armed force.
The police chief was fired by the hapless mayor and ATLPD was not allowed to do anything until an 8 year old girl was murdered.
Please elucidate regarding this change in the policing status quo in Atlanta, specifically regarding how reallocation of funds from policing to mental health initiatives in Atlanta led to the change.
Did I say anything about "mental health initiatives"?
Please further explain how a news report about a criminal who was in and out of the system for nearly a decade prior to 2020/21 is an indictment of this perceived very recent change in the status quo.
While you are right that we've had a problem with revolving door prisons, 2020 did present a particularly bad year. The mayor prevented ATLPD from controlling George Floyd rioters, then fired the police chief and the two cops over Rayshard Brooks. The corrupt DA charged the officers even though they were attacked by Brooks.
All that led to a demoralized ATLPD and shell-shocked city. Since the Olympics, things have been going better, but lately, and especially since Summer 2020, things are going to shit. We have already had over 100 homicides in the city.
You decry criminality and the way it has been handled by the system for years, but you rail against any change to that system.
I want change for the better. Defunding police would be a change for the worse. As would the prideandfall/bilby plans to pay off street criminals.