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What Does It Mean to Defund the Police?

Fear. Ecstasy. Revulsion. Relief. How a person reacts to the call to defund their local police department depends powerfully on that person’s experience of police, regardless of ethnicity or color. If the police helped you once—if you’ve been spared too many negative interactions with cops—then you’re liable to view law enforcement as synonymous with public […]

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