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There's a Movement to Defund School Police, Too [bloomberg.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 8/26/2010:33 AM

By Kara Harris, Bloomberg CityLab, August 24, 2020 When students in Minneapolis, Denver and Oakland eventually return to their classrooms, one group will be notably missing from school grounds: the police. After the killing of George Floyd and the resulting “defund the police” movement to divert resources to other types of community services, the Minneapolis School District was the first of several in the U.S. to end its relationship with the local police department. On June 2, the school...

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