It's time to Defund the Police
Mayors & City Councils
The Minneapolis City Council announced its commitment to defund and dismantle the city’s police department in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
This is a direct result of the Movement for Black Lives and the thousands of people who have taken to the streets to demand an end to police brutality. But we cannot stop here. We need to call on cities and counties across the country to follow suit and defund the police.
Sign our nationwide petition here calling on every mayor and city council to defund the police and invest in our communities.
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More officers, guns, jails, and prisons are not a solution – they are part of the problem. The Minneapolis Police Department was considered by some as a “model” for progressive police reform. Even with implicit bias, mindfulness, and de-escalation training, body cameras, and early intervention systems to identify problematic officers, George Floyd was still murdered.
The solution to ending police violence and cultivating a safer country lies in reducing the power of the police. Cities can begin by changing policies so police officers never respond to certain kinds of emergencies, such as ones that involve substance abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, or mental health.
Instead, health care workers or emergency response teams would handle these incidents. If someone calls 911 to report a drug overdose, health care teams rush to the scene, not the police.
We're calling on you to immediately redirect funds away from the police and into emergency response programs that don’t kill Black people.