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Bookmark or Share- What is the ‘defund the police’ movement? 5 questions answeredNation Jun 11, 2020 12:44 PM EDT. As protests over police brutality and systemic racism continue in the wake of George Floyd’s death, there have been growing calls to defund the police. But what...
- Defund the police - WikipediaIn the United States, " defund the police " is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.
- Defunding police: What it means and what it could look like | CNNCNN — There’s a growing group of dissenters who believe Americans can survive without law enforcement as we know it. And Americans, those dissenters believe, may even be better off without it. The...
- 'Defund the police': What it means and what the research says“‘Defund the police’ means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality,” writes University of Maryland sociologist Rashawn Ray in a June 2020 Brookings Institution blog post. “That’s it. It’s that simple.”
- Defund the Police Movement: Why the Term Has Become Divisive - TIMEThere are now varying (and even contradictory) takes on what the term “defund” actually means—and in what ways it should be used to foster change. Some activists use it to describe their goal of...
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