Here's why the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, and others want to 'defund the police' while this weapons supplier disagrees:
) are also calling for funds typically spent on more manpower to be reinvested in the black and brown communities, which the ACLU says are under higher scrutiny by police. Reinvestment would result in less crime, according to the ACLU.
“When you have an officer with 17 misconduct complaints, including a brutality lawsuit, you wouldn’t be paying his salary and his pension,” says Buchen, citing the record of now-former police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Floyd, 46. “The root of the problem is there are too many police. It’s not that they shouldn’t have computers or we need to cut their salaries, it’s that they shouldn’t be employed,” Buchen said.
Amazon, which did not respond to requests for comment, continues to supply high-tech surveillance tools and cloud services to police departments and the U.S. government.
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