Police brutality is a daily occurrence in our communities; police officers kill Black, Brown and Indigenous people with impunity, and overpolicing  us to fill for-profit prisons and detention centers. The police aren’t solving our problems—they’re creating them.

Fortunately, the movement for justice is growing. We must continue to stand for justice until change comes. That means we must continually add our voices demanding that police be defunded.

Stand with Hip Hop Caucus: Defund the police!

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The origins of modern police departments were Slave Patrols.

The over-investment of our tax dollars in policing Black and Brown communities and the under-investment in supportive services is the foundation for mass criminalization and inequity in the United States.

Instead of increasing police departments budgets with even more money for impotent programs that serve as political cover for police and politicians, we must divert that money and significant money from our city and county policing budgets into services that strengthen individuals and communities.

We must defund the police and invest in Black and Brown communities!