{"id":2948,"date":"2020-06-18T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2020-06-18T21:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:40:23","slug":"growing-calls-to-defund-the-police-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"Growing calls to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A three-word slogan is not a detailed policy agenda, and not everyone using the slogan agrees on the details. The basic idea, though, is less that policing budgets should be literally zeroed out than that there should be a massive restructuring of public spending priorities.”
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“there are people, like Brooklyn College sociologist Alex Vitale, who favor police abolition<\/a>. In practice, however, while Vitale supports legalizing a wide range of currently illegal activity, he still envisions things like \u201csex work that\u2019s regulated just like any other business.\u201d At some level, the way business regulation works is that if you\u2019re sufficiently defiant of the rules, the police will lock you up. And under questioning from Mother Jones\u2019s Madison Pauly<\/a>, Vitale is cagey about questions like how we are going to handle murders in a zero-police society.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The \u201cdefund\u201d slogan dances ambiguously between abolition-type schemes and just saying officials should spend less money on policing at the margins. The Black Lives Matters\u00a0#DefundThePolice<\/a>\u00a0explainer page argues that \u201claw enforcement doesn\u2019t protect or save our lives. They often threaten and take them.\u201d By contrast, a\u00a0Justin Brooks op-ed at the Appeal titled \u201cDefund the Police Now\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is an extended argument for spending somewhat less money on crime control and somewhat more on social services, as a win-win resulting in less crime, less punishment, and less police violence against civilians.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/3\/21276824\/defund-police-divest-explainer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A three-word slogan is not a detailed policy agenda, and not everyone using the slogan agrees on the details. The basic idea, though, is less that policing budgets should be literally zeroed out than that there should be a massive restructuring of public spending priorities.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“there are people, like Brooklyn College sociologist Alex Vitale, who favor police abolition. In practice, however, while Vitale supports legalizing a wide range of currently illegal activity, he still envisions things like \u201csex work that\u2019s regulated just like any other business.\u201d At some level, the way business regulation works is that if you\u2019re sufficiently defiant of the rules, the police will lock you up. And under questioning from Mother Jones\u2019s Madison Pauly, Vitale is cagey about questions like how we are going to handle murders in a zero-police society.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The \u201cdefund\u201d slogan dances ambiguously between abolition-type schemes and just saying officials should spend less money on policing at the margins. The Black Lives Matters #DefundThePolice explainer page argues that \u201claw enforcement doesn\u2019t protect or save our lives. They often threaten and take them.\u201d By contrast, a Justin Brooks op-ed at the Appeal titled \u201cDefund the Police Now\u201d is an extended argument for spending somewhat less money on crime control and somewhat more on social services, as a win-win resulting in less crime, less punishment, and less police violence against civilians.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,892,285,288],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-defund","tag-police","tag-police-accountability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}