Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Florida legislators, with the backing of Gov. Ron DeSantis, are pushing another bill that undermines the ability of municipalities to set their own local policies. This latest assault on “home rule” involves the budgets city governments set for police. If a resident doesn’t like a budget, the state can intervene and change it.
The bill’s intent is to overturn efforts to “defund” the police — that is, shifting some of a police budget to social…
