This makes perfect sense to me as in, dispatch the EMTs and firefighters to fires and medical emergencies, dispatch the cops to incidents with an elevated risk of violence, and send unarmed specialists to everything else. And let them all back each other up as needed.

On the other hand this stuff makes no sense at all:

> “To abolish police we need serious affordable housing. We need food programs,” he said.

So people with homes and food don't commit crimes? That's contrary to my experience. And a call to abolish the police is just a call for the return of warlords, where the most belligerent and violent thugs make the rules. For all the problems we've got, that's not a step forward.