What #DefundPolice Can Do For Public Safety Cities imagine taking away resources from racist, oppressive policing and putting it toward public safety and social services. Nicole Lewis | Aug 26, 2020
鈥淚t鈥檚 About Terrorizing Us鈥: Environmental Racism Expert Draws Parallels With Police Brutality 鈥淚f this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.鈥 Carol Linnitt | Jun 18, 2020
Cities Reimagine Public Safety Amid Calls to #DefundPolice Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing. Lornet Turnbull | Jun 11, 2020
How Militarizing Police Sets Up Protesters as 鈥渢he Enemy鈥 The message sent to police through arming them with military equipment is that they are in fact at war. Tom Nolan | Jun 5, 2020
Excerpt Why Police Reform Is Not Enough The focus on reforms like improved training doesn鈥檛 solve racially biased policing. That鈥檚 because of the nature of policing itself. Alex Vitale | Jun 2, 2020
Videos of Black People鈥檚 Killings Are Sacred鈥擲o Stop Sharing Them Cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed with the solemn reserve of lynching photographs. Allissa V. Richardson | Jun 1, 2020
Opinion | George Floyd | Minneapolis | Minneapolis Police Department An Uprising Was Inevitable George Floyd鈥檚 death鈥攁nd so many before his鈥攚as avoidable. But until Black Lives Matter to elected officials, police officers, and White Americans, the uprisings will continue. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | May 29, 2020