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An Alternative to Police That Police Can Get Behind (The Atlantic)

Karen Clemmer · 12/28/2012:53 PM

By Rowan Moore Gerety, December 28, 2020, The Atlantic. Should american cities defund their police departments? The question has been asked continually—with varying degrees of hope, fear, anger, confusion, and cynicism—since the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day. It hung over the November election: on the right, as a caricature in attack ads (call 911, get a recording) and on the left as a litmus test separating the incrementalists from the abolitionists. “Defund the police” has...

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