What everyone gets wrong about the 'Defund the Police' debate

29/06/2021 19 min
What everyone gets wrong about the 'Defund the Police' debate

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Episode Synopsis

The hosts of PAR explore how pushback against calls to defund the police seldom acknowledge chronically wasteful spending by police departments that absolutely should be cut.Public debates about "Defund the Police" have seemingly devolved into an all-or-nothing rhetorical war with little room for nuance. But opponents of the slogan and the movement behind it routinely ignore the decades of profligate spending and wasteful use of taxpayer dollars that has become commonplace for many police departments. In this TRNN podcast, the hosts of the Police Accountability Report take a close look at the numbers and expose some of the most egregious police spending.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-police-accountability-report--4585846/support.

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