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“I just don’t feel that police evicting people is a way to ‘protect and serve.’”

City leaders are urged to direct the money to "more relevant city agencies, harm reduction programs, and community-based organizations who are better trained and equipped to actually keep our communities safe."

Police foundations across the country are partnering with corporations to raise money to supplement police budgets by funding programs and purchasing tech and weaponry for law enforcement with little public oversight.

Taking law enforcement out of the equation in this 31-year-old program in Eugene, Oregon.

Americans are getting a small taste of the fire and fury that the U.S. military...inflict on people overseas on a regular basis from Iraq and Afghanistan to Yemen and Palestine, and the intimidation felt by the people of Iran, Venezuela...

Bias training, body cameras, community dialogues – Minneapolis has tried them all. We need a better response

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