Yo Pals! We got a THICC boi for you today. We hope you come to the table with an open mind. Check our sources out below. Happy Pride Month. And as always, we love you, but not in a creepy way. Just in the way friends love friends. 

Sauce: 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/police/Early-police-in-the-United-States

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil rights-reimagining-policing/how-you-start-is-how-you-finish/

https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/policy/data-transparency-initiative-mos.page https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/23/us/bureau-justice-statistics-race.html

https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/6-reasons-why-its-time-to-defund-police

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/defund-the-police-meaning/

https://www.procon.org/headlines/defund-the-police-top-3-pros-and-cons/