Defunding the Police approved in LA

11/9/20
 
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from TPPF,
11/8/20:

What to Know: Los Angeles voters approved a ballot measure to defund their police.

The TPPF Take: Defunding the police won’t make communities safer. Better communication between police and the people they serve will.

“In justice system encounters, communications in which there is not underlying trust can contribute to graver consequences than wasted time or a lost sale,” says TPPF’s Marc Levin. “This can take the form of an arrest that goes off the rails or the 150,000 cases every year in which a person on community supervision is revoked to prison for violating conditions, though not charged with a new offense.”

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