Momentum Grows as More U.S. Cities Debate Defunding the PoliceBach, Trevor AUTHORU.S. News & World Report; Washington
"But that’s exactly the center of my white privilege: 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," the 39-year-old went on. "And for good reason." Portman then included a...
Despite what the public record shows, an analysis of broadcast transcripts shows that candidates, law enforcement leaders and television hosts discussed the impact of "defunding the police" more than 10,000 times over the last two years, according to the Internet Archive's TV news transcripts dat...
Compared tothe Class of 2024, 11.1 percent fewer members of the Class of 2025 favor defunding police departments. Similarly, the proportion of those who favor defunding the Harvard University Police Department dropped by 9.2 percent between the Classes of 2024 and 2025. Fewer members of this yea...
"We still haven't heard from Joe Biden himself on the radical 'Defund the Police' movement in the Democrat Party," Murtaugh said in a statement. "It would have been the simplest thing in the world to stick his name on a statement, but he didn't even do that." ...
The police force serving the Los Angeles County Unified School District is the largest independent law enforcement agency of its kind in the nation.
On Monday, the district told the News Service that the decision had been reversed following the executive order. "Gadsden County Schools will do as much as we can to follow CDC guidelines as the governor will allow," a spokeswoman for the district said. ...
On Tuesday, CBS2's Marcia Kramer spoke to some experts and the mayor, himself, about possible solutions. The protesters who continue to march through city streets want police reform and substantial cuts to the NYPD budget -- a $1 billion haircut. ...