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Despite widespread promises of police reform in recent years, killings by police show no sign of abating. In 2023, U.S. police officers killed at least 1,247 people —more than in any other year ...
End Policing for Profit: end police department quotas, limit fines and fees for low-income citizens, forbid property seizure, and require police budgets to pay for misconduct fines. [ 18 ] Demilitarization: end the federal government's 1033 Program to supply military weaponry to local police departments and institute local restrictions to ...
The police abolition movement is a political movement, mostly active in the United States, that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public safety. [1] Police abolitionists believe that policing, as a system, is inherently flawed and cannot be reformed—a view that rejects the ideology of police reformists.
"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.
The National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, Criminalization of a Generation was held at the Greenville County Courthouse on Oct. 22, 2024. After meeting at the county ...
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis.A video of the incident depicting Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted widespread outrage leading to local, national, and international protests and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing.
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