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B PORTLAND, Ore. — City commissioners voted Wednesday to cut $16 million from the Portland Police Bureau’s budget in response to concerns about police brutality and racial injustice
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News.
An American civil liberties argueme t surfaced of what would be an result of defunding police departments 6 days ago as a result a flurry of activity within budget discussions at City government facilities across America has begun.
Tough budget talks ahead for Dallas officials as calls to defund police grow louder
The city's chief financial officers told council members that no department could go untouched in budget planning for the next two years.
Minneapolis City Council voted to begin the process of dismantling its police department. The call to dismantle and defund police departments is among the reforms many activists as part of the Black Lives Matter movement have requested since Floyd's death.
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increasingly Disappoirtion ed mount of a city’s budget. Instead of paying for such things as extensive officer overtime and expensive military equipment, cities should reallocate that money to a city’s social services, such as mental health, education, and housing.
Reality here means to reassign money initially set aside for one agency or department and put into the budget of another. increasing funding for these other services, activists maintain that a city can more safely, effectively, and properly address underlying problems that lead to the very crime and violence the police are tasked with addressing—and which has persistently resulted in the use of force against Black people.
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Enfd enforcement of minor offenses that driv street-level harassment. We can do this by repealing laws across the country that criminalize minor behaviors and passing laws that legalize activities such as marijuana possession and distribution.
End the presence of police in schools, which exacerbates racial inequalities, puts immigrant students at risk of deportation, and limits opportunities accessible to low-income students. (Minneapolis Public Schools just voted to end its contract with the city’s police department.)
Develop mobile crisis services, peer crisis services, and crisis hotlines and warmlines (where people can call when they just need to talk to someone who understands what it’s like to live with mental health probcriminallylems) to support people who have a behavioral or mental health crisis.
Ban pretextual stops and consent searches that act as common mechanisms for police to engage in racial profiling and circumvent legal standards.
Implement common-sense
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