Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All
with Sandy Hudson
Hosted by Erika Shaker
A lucid argument for defunding–and demilitarizing–the police.”
Join Sandy Hudson, multidisciplinary creator, writer and activist, and the founder of Black Lives Matter Canada, for a fiercely argued case for defunding the police.
In Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All, she elucidates what defunding the police actually means and why it matters, by exploring today’s criminal landscape and the patterns and structures that result in safer, well-resourced communities.
Hudson explores the origins of commonly held ideas about police and safety to show how police-related social policies are based more on a sensationalized idea of safety than on outcomes and data. She examines the destructive effects of policing on scores of people, arguing that investment in community resources and infrastructure rather than law enforcement is the key to making us safer.
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