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Minneapolis Just Took Millions From Its Cops 7 Months After George Floyd's Death
The Minneapolis City Council passed a plan early Thursday to redirect nearly $8 million from the department’s budget to other city services.
Joe Biden Told Civil Rights Leaders to Pipe Down About Police Reform in Leaked Audio
Biden warned that pushing too hard for police reform could lose Democrats their Senate run-off rin Georgia.
How to Build a Global Abolition Movement
The carceral state is on the rise around the world, and ending it will require a movement that recognizes the internationalism of policing, even if, as one activist put it, "My pigs are not your pigs."
Toronto Cop Who Made a Million While Suspended for 13 Years Finally Off the Payroll
Ioan-Florin Floria, who was arrested in July 2007, was dismissed in a ruling earlier this month.
I Wish My Park Didn’t Have to Beg People to Volunteer to Pick Up Garbage
New York City’s parks are more essential than ever, but the city won’t allocate enough funding to maintain them.
Police and Big Tech Are Partners in Crime. We Need to Abolish Them Both
Silicon Valley has made billions of dollars empowering the police by pitching surveillance and data analysis technology as unbiased. It’s not.
1,600 Google Employees Demand No Tech for Police
"We, the undersigned Googlers, call on you to stop making our technology available to police forces."
Case of Toronto Cop, Who Has Been Paid $1-Million on Suspension, Nears Legal Decision
The case of Constable Ioan-Florin Floria, accused of being associated with organized crime, highlights the absurdity of police being suspended with pay.
Why ‘Defunding the Police’ Is Also an Environmental Issue
Defunding the police isn’t a distraction from organizing mass numbers of people to fight the climate emergency. It’s part of the same theory of change and political vision.
These Cities Replaced Cops With Social Workers, Medics, and People Without Guns
And it worked pretty well.
We Don't Need Cops to Enforce Traffic Laws
The law invented the concept of officer discretion so white drivers could get fewer speeding tickets. If we want to have fair and equitable policing, we’ll have to get over our hatred for speed cameras.
Halifax Returned a Tank: How Canadian Cities Are Responding to 'Defund the Police'
Across Canada calls to defund police are getting louder. But the changes proposed so far may be a disappointment to many.