How to Defund the Police

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Racism is baked into the U.S. model of policing. More and more people are starting to believe that no amount of "reform" will help; a full tear-down is required. But what does "defunding the police" actually mean? What would happen to people who need to report a crime? And are we sure the police have ever actually been effective at any of the services they're supposed to provide? Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo dive into those questions and more on the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered. Support Boom! Lawyered at https://rewire.news/boomgive — or by texting "BOOMGIVE" to 44-321.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:08.9	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a rewire.
0:12.2	News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that really sincerely wants everyone to know
0:19.1	that say it with me, Black Lives Matter. I'm Imani
0:24.0	Gandy. And I'm Jess Peeklo. Rewire. Dot News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive
0:29.6	rights and social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web. And the Team Legal podcast is part of
0:35.5	that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:40.1	Jess, you're basically one of the smartest people that I know.
0:43.4	Oh, Amani, that's a nice thing to say.
0:46.3	Well, it's true.
0:47.7	Okay, well, you're one of the smartest people that I know.
0:51.4	Oh, I know.
0:52.5	What?
0:53.4	I mean, why bother with false modesty, right? It's safe to say that if
0:59.7	you put us in a room, we're going to be some of the smartest people in that room.
1:04.0	Well, I mean, unless you put us in like the NASA control center or something, because we're not
1:08.3	going to be much use there. Okay, that's true. But like a regular
1:11.5	room filled with non-rocket scientist people. But as smart as you and I are, we don't know everything.
1:18.9	Oh, certainly not. And right now there's a huge societal discussion about something that we don't
1:24.2	know a whole lot about, defunding the police. That's right. There is a lot
1:29.4	of talk right now about defunding the police or abolishing forces altogether. And some cities like
1:35.4	Minneapolis are taking the first steps to radically rethink their community's relationship with
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