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"Defund the police", a phrase popularized by Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd protests. In the United States, "defund the police" is a slogan advocating for reallocating funds from police departments to non-policing forms of public safety and community support initiatives, such as social services, youth programs, housing, education, healthcare, and other community resources.
As the nation moves into its first month of direct action following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, the Minneapolis Black man who died in police custody, protestors and pundits have ...
Then-Sen. Kamala Harris joins fellow Democrats from the House and Senate on June 8, 2020, to introduce new legislation to end excessive use of force by police and make it easier to identify, track ...
The White House press secretary on Tuesday blamed the spike in crime in several cities over the last month on the movement to “defund” the police, making a logical leap that criminologists say ...
Jacksonville's nickname came after the city saw year-after-year of high murder rates – until 2024, when police reported more than a 50% drop from 2023, when murders fell from 122 to 59.
Defunding the police is a more holistic demand to reduce police department budgets to $0 for the staunchest activists, and for others a call to simply reallocate some of the money dedicated to ...
A demonstrator at a June 2020 George Floyd protest holds up a sign calling for defunding the police, a possible step in police abolition. Defunding the police can be considered as a step towards abolition, by using funds allocated to police to invest in community initiatives intended to reduce crime and therefore the need for policing over time ...
The idea of defunding the police has been around for decades, but the movement picked up steam as protests erupted nationwide following George Floyd’s death while in the custody of Minneapolis ...