{"id":469,"date":"2020-06-12T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T01:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=469"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T01:41:41","slug":"police-abolition-the-growing-movement-to-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/12\/police-abolition-the-growing-movement-to-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Abolition: The Growing Movement to Defund the Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In recent weeks as antiracism and anti-police violence protests continue around the country, the movement to defund and abolish policing in America has rapidly gained momentum. As Black communities have asserted for decades, people have begun to wonder in earnest what purpose police serve. They\u2019re asking when there\u2019s a problem in our communities, do we really need a person with a gun showing up to solve it? What would a system oriented around public safety look like if it was designed from scratch rather than just piling more responsibility onto and funding into increasingly militarized and unaccountable police departments?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/06\/police-abolition-defund-the-police\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Police Abolition: The Growing Movement to Defund the Police<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks as antiracism and anti-police violence protests continue around the country, the movement to defund and abolish policing in America has rapidly gained momentum. As Black communities have asserted for decades, people have begun to wonder in earnest what purpose police serve. They\u2019re asking when there\u2019s a problem in our communities, do we &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/12\/police-abolition-the-growing-movement-to-defund-the-police\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}