What #DefundPolice Can Do For Public Safety
Cities imagine taking away resources from racist, oppressive policing and putting it toward public safety and social services.
Police Brutality
鈥淚t鈥檚 About Terrorizing Us鈥�: Environmental Racism Expert Draws Parallels With Police Brutality
鈥淚f this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.鈥�
Cities Reimagine Public Safety Amid Calls to #DefundPolice
Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing.
How Militarizing Police Sets Up Protesters as 鈥渢he Enemy鈥�
The message sent to police through arming them with military equipment is that they are in fact at war.
Why Police Reform Is Not Enough
The focus on reforms like improved training doesn鈥檛 solve racially biased policing. That鈥檚 because of the nature of policing itself.
Videos of Black People鈥檚 Killings Are Sacred鈥擲o Stop Sharing Them
Cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed with the solemn reserve of lynching photographs.
An Uprising Was Inevitable
George Floyd鈥檚 death鈥攁nd so many before his鈥攚as avoidable. But until Black Lives Matter to elected officials, police officers, and White Americans, the uprisings will continue.
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