What does the call to "defund the police" mean? I didn't know, so I did some research. Turns out it isn't what it sounds like (for the most part). It's easy to look at the term and think people want to abolish police across the country, followed up by a knee-jerk reaction to the idea. But hear them out — there are some fantastic innovations in their call to action.

In the end, decreasing the role of police in society could benefit black communities and the cops themselves. Listen for more.

Resources:

1. "‘Defund the police’ gains traction as cities seek to respond to demands for a major law enforcement shift," The Washington Post, June 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/07/protests-defund-police/
2. The Broken Windows Theory: "How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong," NPR, November 2017: https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-policing-and-the-origins-of-stop-and-frisk-and-how-it-went-wrong
3. "How Much Do We Need The Police?" NPR's Code Switch, June 2020: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police