Monday 31 August 2020

How the police’s grasp on bureaucracy makes their budget so hard to cut

Thousands of protesters gathered at McCarren Park in Brooklyn for a massive march around Williamsburg, making a loud call for the defunding of the police force. This comes after NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio promised ‘intense change’ with police reform proposals amid calls to defund law enforcement, including shifting resources from NYPD and publicizing officers’ disciplinary records. Brooklyn, NY on June 7th, 2020. | Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Real change takes time, willpower, and sustained resistance — and the technology to make police brutality visible to policymakers

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source https://www.theverge.com/21377136/defund-the-police-george-floyd-protest-politics-budget-minneapolis-nyc-austin

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