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https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/defunding-the-police-will-actually-make-us-safer/

ACLU News & Commentary

2020-06-16 14:13:12, Paige Fernandez, American Civil Liberties Union

Content Categorization
/Law & Government/Public Safety/Law Enforcement

Word Count:
885

Words/Sentence:
26

Reading Time:
5.90 min

Reading Quality:
Adept

Readability:
13th to 15th

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The first U.S. city police department was a slave patrol, and modern police forces have directed oppression and violence at Black people to enforce Jim Crow, wage the War on Drugs, and crack down on protests.

Similarly, in New York City, the government spends almost $6 billion on policing, which is more than it does on the Department of Health, Homeless Services, Housing Preservation and Development, and Youth and Community development combined.

By shrinking their massive budgets, we can help end decades of racially driven social control and oppression as well as address social problems at their root instead of investing in an institution that further oppresses and terrorizes communities.

We can demand that our local officials (including city council members and mayors) stop allocating funds for the police to acquire more militarized equipment and instead ask for that money to go toward community-run violence-prevention programs.

Activists, advocates, and protestors are still screaming "I can't breathe" and begging government officials for police reform that will end police violence in Black communities.

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