At least 12 U.S. cities are defunding their police departments
Baltimore; Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia; Hartford, Conn.; Norman, Oklahoma; and Salt Lake City also all approved the collective elimination of hundreds of police jobs and tens of millions of dollars from their department budgets. , Texas, are mulling the reallocation of funds within their own departments. “This experience should be a lesson to state and local leaders about the real costs of irresponsible proposals to defund the police,” wrote U.S.
the measure for further study for 90 days, which prevented it from being put up for approval by voters in November. Though months of Black Lives Matter protests have brought the Defund the Police debate to the fore, the notion of slashing and re-allocating police funds is far from universally popular. According to an Axios-SurveyMonkey
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