Many cities across the country are working to introduce reforms on the state and local level to effect change in policing, but much progress is yet to be made in the city that sparked the idea of dismantling police.
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‘The armed forces of Russia, Germany, France, the U.K. and Japan all receive less money than American police departments.’
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In his television, radio and online appearances, Obama exudes presidential charm, while pushing narratives of respectability.
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Last week the city council voted 7-6 to pay nearly $500,000 to hire temporary police officers for MPD
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In essence, an unelected body decided that the citizens of Minneapolis couldn’t hold an election to decide how they, the people, want to be policed.
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The Commission decided Wednesday to delay the vote to defund the police to allow for more time to review the proposal, effectively pushing the measure off the November ballot.
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‘This proposal to essentially push the chief out of a job, knowing he is the first Black chief, that is extremely problematic for me.’
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If Americans have reason to question the nation’s increasingly militarized law enforcement, shouldn’t they question this country’s thoroughly militarized approach to statecraft?
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A serious, methodical program of defunding the police requires a community control approach.
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Dismantling the MPD will take time and community involvement and will be strenuously resisted by the police.
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