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Since the 1960s, municipal governments have increasingly spent larger portions of their budgets on law enforcement. This is partially rootedRooted in the "war on crime," launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which crime control was prioritized crime control via law enforcement and prisons.[1]Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). Meanwhile, policePolice unions have wieldednow wield significant power in local politics,[2] due to direct endorsements of political candidates and funding of campaignscampaign funding.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).[2] Police department budgets have been consideredThis has resulted in"untouchable" for decadespolice budgets.
Since the 1960s, municipal governments have increasingly spent larger portions of their budgets on law enforcement. Rooted in the "war on crime," launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson, crime control was prioritized via law enforcement and prisons.[3][4] Police unions now wield significant power in local politics,[5] due to direct endorsements of political candidates and campaign funding.[6][7][5] This has resulted in "untouchable" police budgets.[8][9][3] It is now 2020 and this year alone the police have got over a hundred billion dollars.[10] The police budget is no where near a decreasing trend.[11]
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Police defunding and abolition activists argue that the police have a poor track record of resolving cases related to murder, rape, and domestic abuse.[3] Many others further argue that police social work intervention, as known, leads to mass incarceration, risk of physical and mental harm, exposure to violence, and in some instances, death.[12]
Scholars argue that the police are often given too many roles in society and asked to solve issues that they are not properly trained for and that would be better suited for professionals such as mental health, homelessness, drug abuse, and school related violence.[13]
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Facebook2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c Badger, Emily; Bui, Quoctrung (2020-06-12). "Cities Grew Safer. Police Budgets Kept Growing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ "Why We Should Reconsider the War on Crime". Time. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ a b "L.A. police union spent big in local elections. Some politicians now shun the money". Los Angeles Times. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ "California D.A.s Call For Ban on Police Union Money and Endorsements in Prosecutorial Elections". The Appeal. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ "Minneapolis police union endorses Republican Jeff Johnson for Minnesota governor". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ "Police Budgets Used to Be Untouchable. The 'Defund' Movement Is Changing That". The Trace. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ Vagianos, Alanna (2020-06-04). "Police Budgets Have Long Been Untouchable. That Could Change". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ https://populardemocracy.org/news-and-publications/how-much-do-us-cities-spend-every-year-policing.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Hayes, Tara. "Assessing Calls to Defund the Police". American Action Forum. Retrieved 10/29/2020.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ Jacobs, Leah A.; Kim, Mimi E.; Whitfield, Darren L.; Gartner, Rachel E.; Panichelli, Meg; Kattari, Shanna K.; Downey, Margaret Mary; Stuart McQueen, Shanté; Mountz, Sarah E. (2020-09-15). "Defund the Police: Moving Towards an Anti-Carceral Social Work". d-scholarship.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ Vermeer, Michael J. D, et al. “Would Law Enforcement Leaders Support Defunding the Police? Probably-If Communities Ask Police to Solve Fewer Problems.” Expert Insights on a Timely Policy Issue, Aug. 2020, pp. 1–15.