The nationwide protests that started in response to the police killing of George Floyd have evolved into a movement calling for defunding of the police. "Defunding the police is not simply withdrawing funding for law enforcement and doing nothing else. … It is about shifting public funds to new services and new institutions," says Angela Davis, legendary Black liberation activist and preeminent scholar of abolitionist thought. "Abolition is not primarily a negative strategy. It's not primarily a

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