Stephen Kent and Michael Starr Hopkins discuss #DefundThePolice
What does “Defund the Police” mean? Should we entertain the idea of reforming policing?
While it is true that there is a radical fringe of the “Defund the Police” movement who truly want to dismantle law enforcement, there's a much larger coalition of people who see this slogan and look at it as an opportunity to discuss how we can make major reforms to how we police. I fall into the latter camp. I'm not calling for abolishing police or even reducing salaries, but rather a re-envisioning of how and what we police