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Jul 8, 2021 · WASHINGTON — The White House is responding to relentless Republican charges that it wants to "defund the police" by embracing the message that there are, in fact, politicians angling to...
Jun 29, 2021 · Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist. Who Really Wants to Defund the Police? Despite the slogans, Democrats in Congress have directed huge amounts of federal money to local police departments....
Nov 5, 2021 · CNN — On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats...
Jul 6, 2021 · Richmond’s claim suggested that Republicans voted to cut or reduce existing federal funding to police departments — which is what some who truly want to “defund the police” advocate. That’s not...
May 19, 2021 · At least 13 cities in the United States have currently engaged in policy programs to defund the police. Myth #2: Defunding Will Lead to Disorder. Another misconception is that police forces are...
Feb 6, 2022 · By Alex Seitz-Wald. WASHINGTON — A young Democratic member of Congress declared the "defund the police" movement “dead" on Thursday, and Black Democratic mayors from San Francisco to New...
Apr 20, 2021 · Opinion. History’s Lesson for Activists Who Want to Defund the Police. 6 minute read. A participant holding a Defund The Police sign at a protest on June 2, 2020, in Brooklyn, N.Y....
Jun 29, 2021 · “‘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.”
May 16, 2022 · President Biden and Democrat Charlie Crist have said that they don’t support calls to defund the police. And a law that both men supported provides funding for the IRS to potentially hire tens...
Jun 11, 2020 · Today, two people who've spent years studying what it would mean to defund the police - first, St. Louis activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell. She would like to abolish the police entirely. And...
