The push to defund the police is about more than just taking money away. It's also a push to reallocate those funds into social programs, and reinvesting them into black communities.
when he said,"We are asking cops to do too much in this country." Brown's comment came during a news conference following the fatal shooting of five Dallas police officers."Every societal failure, we put it off on cops," he added.
In D.C., police chief Peter Newsham warned that underfunding a police department could cause an increase in excess force by police officers. "The body cameras have done nothing more than show us what’s happened over and over again. The training has done nothing but show us that law enforcement and the culture of law enforcement is incapable of changing," Cullors told WBUR.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the city's police union, said budget cuts would be the “quickest way to make our neighborhoods more dangerous.”
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