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I'm not going to play "No true Scotsman" with you. Any example I will show you will just turn into "that's not what the left really wants".
The fact is that AOC opposed putting more police in the subway in order to reduce crime. Mamdami put more police int he subway and crime went down.
I remember George Floyd protests. Mayor of some town (don't remember which) went to visit the protesters and they asked him directly, "are you going to abolish the police?". He said 'no', he was booed by the crowd and wasn't allowed to say anything more.
Here's The Daily covering this topic: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/326-the-daily-28076606/episode/policing-and-the-new-york-mayoral-83976608/
You can hear "the left" talking very clearly about having less cops, decreasing founding for the police, how defunding is first step to abolishing police, how "police doesn't provide safety", how police can be a threat to black and brown people.
As I said: claiming that the left was not for reducing the number of police is a lie and intent to rewrite history.