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Push for police reform in wake of George Floyd's murder has fallen short so far
Four years ago, the murder of George Floyd, the Black man whom the nation watched die while pinned t...
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- WCPO Cincinnati
Covington police want to add social worker: 'Something that can be very beneficial'
The Covington Police Department is hoping to hire a social worker to address a different need officers often face while responding to calls....
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Jun 29, 2021 · We explore what “defund the police” means, recent academic scholarship and what the future of policing in America might look like.
Jun 19, 2020 · “Defund the police” means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality. That’s it. It’s that simple.
Defund the police. In 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.
Jun 6, 2020 · Instead of funding a police department, a sizable chunk of a city’s budget is invested in communities, especially marginalized ones where much of the policing occurs.
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Jun 3, 2020 · What “defunding” police means in practice. In congressional budget-speak, to “defund” something normally means to reduce appropriations to zero dollars, thus eliminating it. And there are ...
- Matthew Yglesias
Jan 17, 2021 · To most others, however, “defund the police” simply means reduce police budgets and divest funding towards underlying societal issues, like poverty, homelessness, education, and health services. [11] Christy E. Lopez, Georgetown Law School professor and co-director of Georgetown’s Innovative Policing Program wrote, “It means investing ...
Jun 11, 2020 · As protests over police violence and racism continue in the wake of George Floyd's death, there have been growing calls to defund the police. But what exactly does that mean?
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- Courtney Vinopal
