John Legend, Lizzo, The Weeknd, Common and others urge local governments to decrease police budgets in favor of spending more on health care, education, and other community programs.
It states in part,"The COVID-19 deaths and the deaths caused by police terror are connected and consequential to each other. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget in the world, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world, too."
"Policing and militarization overwhelmingly dominate the bulk of national and local budgets," the letter continues."In fact, police and military funding has increased every single year since 1973, and at the same time, funding for public health decreased every year, crystallized most recently when the Trump administration eliminated the U.S. Pandemic Response Team in 2018, citing 'costs.
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