Yeah, but will the police cancel the war on civilians?

From the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch (their use of italics, my use of bold) -

Voters Cancel the War on Police

With crime surging in many cities, voters rejected the anti-police left this week. Minneapolis was the birthplace of the defund the police movement, but on Tuesday more than 56% of voters rejected a proposal to abolish the police department. The ballot measure would have replaced the MPD with a vaguely defined Department of Public Safety and eliminated from the city charter requirements for a police chief and a minimum level of police funding.

Everything else is behind a subscriber paywall, and I decline to fund any of Murdoch's propaganda arms.

Can something be called a "war" if only one side is waging it?