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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 288 - 10 Ways to Defund the Police Today - Part 2

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Yesterday we shared our first 5 ways to defund the police and make America safer at the same time. Today, we conclude with the final 5 ideas. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:16.6

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0:30.1

What I've come to understand is that when we talk about defunding the police, people don't know what that means.

0:36.0

And so yesterday, I broke down five ways that the scholar Alex Vitel said we could defund the police and actually increased

0:45.6

public safety and today I'm going to continue with five more reasons that Alex

0:51.3

really broke down we're going to unpack and explain how we

0:54.9

defund the police and then begin to pour that money into social services. Five more

1:00.9

reasons. This is Sean King and you are listening to

1:04.0

The Breakdown.

1:05.0

Breakdown.

1:06.0

The Breakdown.

1:10.0

Breakdown. If you haven't yet listened to yesterday's episode to break down, this is really a two-part series

1:26.1

and so I would encourage you to go back and listen to yesterday's episode where I break down

1:32.0

the pushback that the movement to defund police is

1:34.9

getting from some people it's really rooted in misunderstanding and

1:37.8

and introduce the work of the scholar Alex Vital in his book, The End of Policing.

1:45.0

A brilliant must have book, one of the most important books for this moment.

1:49.0

And then I share, Alex broke down 10 ways that we could defund police but increase public safety.

1:56.7

And yesterday I shared the first five.

1:58.4

And today I want to get to the final five. Step number six is that we need to fund school wellness centers. Now,

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