Scope Conditions Podcast
Scope Conditions Podcast
Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou
“Defunding the Police” as Transitional Justice, with Genevieve Bates
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Jul 11, 2022 at 8:00 pm.
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A little over two years ago, mass protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis, focused public attention on the dramatically higher rates at which the police use force against Black and Latinx people. More broadly, the Black Lives Matter movement has put a spotlight on deep-seated systemic racism in the criminal justice system in the U.S. and beyond. Against this backdrop, many reform advocates have called for a fundamental reorientation of prioritie...