First it was Black Lives Matter. Now Defund the Police is sweeping much of the US.
The pressure began with the death of African American George Floyd and the decision by the Minneapolis City Council to remove funding from the city’s police force.
There is no agreed definition of “defunding” and the issue is political dynamite for the Democrat Party, whose supporters generally back the idea. In the run-up to the November elections President Donald Trump can scarcely believe his good fortune in scoring a law-and-order issue when his main campaign programme, a strong economy, is tanking.
There seems general agreement that, by and large, Black Americans (and to a lesser extent American Indians and Hispanics) don’t fare well at the hands of the police. There are scores of examples.
According to an August 2019 study by the National Academy of Sciences based on police-shooting databases, between 2013 and…
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