Objectives: Previous research and public polls demonstrate the public has varying levels of support for Defund the Police (DTP). However, much of these results assess how individuals feel about DTP rather than how they define it. Additionally, the literature fails to c...
[Madison, WI] – As Wisconsin approaches the one-year anniversary of the riots that left Kenosha burned and communities in Madison and Milwaukee turned upside down,Tony Eversis allowing municipalities to defund the police and make Wisconsinites less safe. On Friday, Tony EversvetoedRepublicans’ bil...
I’ll share why I think dismantling and defunding the police is not the best approach to solving the problem of police brutality and systemic racism. Rather, we should disband and dismantle the police and replace them with private security, community defense, and/or a more accounta...
The police force serving the Los Angeles County Unified School District is the largest independent law enforcement agency of its kind in the nation.
"There are many police departments across the country who are seeking to realize these kinds of changes but haven't had the resources to, and the Trump administration has in fact made obtaining those resources more difficult," Bates said. "This is at the core of Joe Biden's plan to bring...
It’s also why activists are calling not to reform or re-train the police, but to defund them. Usually, to “defund” something means to strip it of its funding entirely. But while there are some who would advocate to abolish the American police force wholesale, recent mainstreamed ...
What does it mean when protesters call to defund the police? Other measures include the possibility of expanding the use of body cameras, which agencies in the county are not currently required to wear. “I think that’s something that we absolutely need to do,” he said. “I am all ab...
demonstration. I was one of two Black women volunteering as clinic greeters. He said, “I want to talk to the young sister over there. You are on the wrong side with those White people.” Then, addressing the police officer standing near me, he said, “We respect the cops. Blue ...
McHarris grew up in a neighborhood where there were “real, discernible threats of gun violence,” and he said he never thought to call the police – that was for his own safety. Instead, he relied on neighbors who helped him navigate threats of danger. What if, he said, those people ...
Dozens of municipalities in the United States pledged to defund the police after Minneapolis police officers murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, while he was in their custody. We first consider whether the municipalities that promised to defund the police actually did so. We find that ...