Five things ‘Defund the police’ is not (via latimesopinion)
and a strategy for dealing with it. But do defunders want to constrain police, replace them, reimagine them or simply abolish them? Not everyone who chants or hashtags the slogan agrees on the details.
In the midst of the crack epidemic that began in the 1980s, the most succinct articulation of the dissatisfaction with the state of policing in Black neighborhoods south of downtown Los Angeles came not from street marchers or reformers but from the 1988 N.W.A. album “.” “Defund tha police!” the group rapped in its most controversial track, except that they didn’t say “defund,” but a word that starts with an “f.
by a new law enforcement agency. The move could best be seen as a “reset” rather than a full-scale defunding.
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