New hotness: Celebrity elite demand defunding of police departments
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 12:01 pm on June 4, 2020
That would be the celebrity elite that can afford their own private police force, right? Riiiiiight. One might think that a week-plus of rioting and looting would demonstrate the necessity of effective community-based policing, but not in Elysium, apparently:
A catalog of celebrities have signed an open letter urging local communities to defund police department budgets.
Celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Lizzo, Natalie Portman, Megan Rapinoe, and others signed the letter, according to Rolling Stone, which urges people to vote to decrease funds going to police departments to instead have the money go toward healthcare and education.
“We call for defunding of police and for those dollars to be rerouted to create a public national healthcare system,†the letter states, citing the Urban Institute’s findings that police budgets have increased by 220% since 1977, estimating $194 billion was spent in 2017.
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