Defund the police? The US city that restarted its police force
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Policing in the US is under the spotlight more than ever. A city in New Jersey has cut crime and won the support of its citizens by scrapping its police force and rebuilding from scratch. Could it be a blueprint to heal an angry nation?
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| 0:00.0 | What happens when a police department has so many problems that the best solution |
| 0:07.8 | is simply to scrap it and start again? Traditionally in police departments they have this motto, |
| 0:13.7 | better to end up in front of 12 and carried by six. That is a warrior mentality. |
| 0:18.7 | Defund the police has become a clarion call for Black Lives Matter protesters across America. |
| 0:26.2 | What does that mean in practice? |
| 0:29.1 | There is a window here where what was previously unimaginable is now possible, at least worth debate in. |
| 0:36.0 | You're listening to stories of our times, from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 0:42.0 | Today, the city that disbanded its police department and what happened next. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 1:06.7 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the |
| 1:12.0 | rain again. |
| 1:13.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 1:16.0 | T's and C's apply. |
| 1:18.0 | Check the Uber app. protest grew in Atlanta last night over a deadly police shooting a new name |
| 1:31.0 | being chanted Raysh Brooks, fatally shot by police at a fast food drive through. |
| 1:37.0 | With a mounting national course, decrying police brutality against black Americans, |
| 1:41.0 | there's a new call for deep structural reform of policing |
| 1:44.7 | across the country. Many are now demanding departments be defunded, dismantled or |
| 1:49.3 | outright about. After weeks of protests across the US, the movement against police racism is not fading away, |
| 1:57.0 | but it does have a new demand, not reform the cops, disband them. |
| 2:05.0 | On Sunday a majority of Minneapolis city council members pledged their commitment to defund the city's police department. |
| 2:12.0 | Minneapolis has pledged to dismantle its police department, while New York has announced that it will cut police funding. |
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