The discussion I remember was about the tension between support for defunding police and polls showing that a lot of poor and POC folks did not want police removed from their neighborhoods. I think they mentioned that crime -- real crime, like assaults, burglaries, robberies, and car thefts -- is something people do care about, and that police are basically the only response to this at the moment. They may have mentioned how neighborhoods that have had so much cut from them already are hesitant to see more taken away. They definitely mentioned that work as a cop is one of the last high-paying, secure jobs you can get without a ton of education, that plenty of cops come from poor neighborhoods, and that the loss of "good" jobs is another reason for hesitance.

Other places like :citations-needed: have had better versions of the same conversation, sure. Nothing about this struck me as reactionary, though -- just a bit underdeveloped. You can talk about what groups of people think without endorsing it.