In some sense, the move highlights that the police role and remit is not a settled, immovable social fact, and as such, this development, in some limited sense, lends support to the 'defund the police' argument. However, defunding done properly requires more than simply withdrawing personnel...
The only law enforcement agencies Trump and the GOP care about are local police officers who protect property and the rich while keeping the poor in a perpetual state of fear. As luck would have it, two hours and thirteen minutes into tonight’s episode the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar ...
Defunding The Police Goes Wrong In Texas..?: Regie: Keith Hodge, Kevin Hodge Mit Keith Hodge, Kevin Hodge
His recentop-ed in the New York Daily Newsspeaks to the issue of our times, Defunding The Police. Here it is: Demands to “defund the police” are seen as radical; they’re not. While few are suggesting an end to policing, it is time to end the exceptional place that police — an...
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...
police’?” Barnes dodged the question, gave a bogus word salad response, and even implied that he supported the movement, saying: “If we make sure people have what they need on the front end, then we won’t even have to have this conversation about where we need a police presence.”...
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 ...
"The police make me as a white woman feel safe, while my black friends, family and neighbors feel the opposite: police make them feel terror," she wrote.
leader Elijah Muhammad, said: "So we have a two-tier system in public education. Just like we have a two-tier society in so many other dimensions. This is really the bread and butter of systemic racism, police officers come on the back end, because they basically reinforce these ...
Thesolution to police brutalityand racial inequalities in policing is simple, supporters say: Just defund police. It’s as straightforward as it sounds: Instead of funding a police department, a sizable chunk of a city’s budget is invested in communities, especially marginalized ones where much ...