Defund

Defund commonly means to reallocate law-enforcement funding at the federal, state and local levels from policing and incarceration to long-term community-based safety strategies .

THE DEMAND:
❖ Divest from surveillance, policing, mass criminalization, incarceration and deportation. Invest in making communities stronger and safer through quality, equal and affordable housing, living wage employment, public transportation, education, health care, including voluntary, harm reduction and patient-driven, community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment, community-based transformative violence prevention and intervention strategies, and supports for criminalized populations.

❖ Uncouple access to services, care, and support from the criminal punishment system.

❖ Provide reparations to survivors of police violence and their families, and to survivors of prison, detention and deportation violence, and their families.

KEY FEDERAL LEGISLATION:
❖ People’s Justice Guarantee.
❖ End Racial and Religious Profiling Act.
❖ Stop Militarization of Law Enforcement Act.
❖ End Qualified Immunity Act.
❖ PEACE (Police Exercising Absolute Care with Everyone) Act.

Source: POLICY DEMANDS FOR BLACK POWER, FREEDOM, & JUSTICE - https://m4bl.org/defund-the-police/