Prominent mayoral candidates are distancing themselves from “defund” and instead offering “cops and more” public safety plans. But that approach neglects the victims of police brutality and risks further entrenching police legitimacy and power.
— Read on www.currentaffairs.org/news/now-is-not-the-time-to-moderate-on-the-police
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Zohran Mamdani wants to strip power from NYPD commissioner — revoking final say on officer discipline
The proud DSA member told reporters Tuesday that he wants an emboldened and effective Civilian Complaint Review Board that out-ranks the city’s top cop when it comes to serious disiciplinary matters.
— Read on nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/zohran-mamdani-wants-to-strip-power-from-nypd-commissioner-revoking-final-say-on-officer-discipline/
See the report on the death of Allan Feliz by the NY AG office HERE
Defund the Police in Real Time: Collapse of Law Enforcement … Adams & Woods … Shows the Cost of No Control – SubX.News
(Chicago SubXNews) Scanner traffic out of the Near West Side last night was raw, profane, and telling. A TMA — a traffic management aide, not a sworn
— Read on subx.news/defund-the-police-in-real-time-collapse-of-law-enforcement-adams-woods-shows-the-cost-of-no-control/
We Still Need to Defund and Abolish the Police
“Defund the Police” came into the spotlight during the 2020 George Floyd uprisings. Despite what conservatives and pro-police propagandists say, “defund” never happened. But it should—because the police aren’t here to keep you safe.
— Read on www.currentaffairs.org/news/we-still-need-to-defund-and-abolish-the-police
Police Reform Backlash on 5th Anniversary of George Floyd | The Marshall Project
As reforms stall in some states, the U.S. Supreme Court just made it easier for police to be sued — and perhaps easier for police to defend themselves.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/17/george-floyd-police-reforms-stall
The Fantasy of a World Without Police
Readers shouldn’t take Hudson’s presentation of these incidents as the warts-and-all truth, however. For example, in decrying cops’ use of riot-control tactics against Standing Rock protesters, who opposed a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline near a Native American reservation, she neglects to mention that the massive, lengthy protests involved road blockades and torched vehicles. In recounting how the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, launched a protest movement, she recalls that “hands up, don’t shoot!” became a “rallying cry” without admitting that the precipitating incident never happened.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/defund-the-police-black-lives-matter-sandy-hudson-book
Heather Mac Donald Comes Out Swinging against BLM, DEI, and Affirmative Action | PragerU
Is America ready to be post-racial? Xaviaer DuRousseau interviews bestselling author Heather Mac Donald about DEI, affirmative action, and BLM’s cry to…
— Read on www.prageru.com/video/heather-mac-donald-comes-out-swinging-against-blm-dei-and-affirmative-action
Why Do Academics Dislike Cops? | City Journal
Police officers represent what many on campuses fear most: reality.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/why-do-academics-dislike-cops
Policing Without the Police? A Review of the Evidence | Manhattan Institute
In the wake of the death of George Floyd and the summer of protests and riots that followed, police reform has once again caught the nation’s attention. But whereas past cycles of this debate have focused on changes to the police as an institution—antibias trainings, new use-of-force…
— Read on www.manhattan-institute.org/policing-without-police-review-evidence
Is Defunding the Police a “Luxury Belief”? | Manhattan Institute
Amid the “racial reckoning” and months of protests that followed the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, progressive political activists, politicians, and media pundits increasingly called for “defunding”—or even “abolishing”—the police. What was meant by proponents of these…
— Read on www.manhattan-institute.org/is-defunding-the-police-a-luxury-belief