It's interesting that he identified statistics issues (eg a third variable, poverty, explains some of the correlation between race and police incidents) but there doesn't seem to be much interest in the next step: if poverty, ghettoisation, and wider systemic issues are the real problem, how to solve them?

An analysis concluding that 'defund the police is just a distraction' should logically conclude that the real response required is much bigger (reducing inequality, the effects of historical racism, and systemic racism), not that no action is required.