https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc readings & resources to understand the call to defund the police & invest in our communities en-us 2020-06-10 04:57:24 UTC 2020-08-28 05:56:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/270a.png meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619991504 When black people are killed by the police, "racism" isn't the right word. ]]> 2020-06-10 05:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619991504 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619992317 “The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says. ]]> 2020-06-10 05:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619992317 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619996333 In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, some cities are asking if the police are being asked to do jobs they were never intended to do. Budgets are being re-evaluated.]]> 2020-06-10 05:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619996333 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619998302 As protesters seek to defund and abolish the police, California’s CRISES Act would set up community alternatives for vulnerable populations]]> 2020-06-10 05:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/619998302 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620001335 Calls to restrict police funding have grown with protests and GOP-imposed austerity.]]> 2020-06-10 05:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620001335 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620003877 (Free Ebook available!) ]]> 2020-06-10 05:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620003877 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620006296 “Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?”]]> 2020-06-10 05:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620006296 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620007562 An excerpt from Alex S. Vitale's 'The End of Policing' shows how police forces were originally started to manage the poor, foreign and nonwhite, not to care for civilians.

]]> 2020-06-10 05:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620007562 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620009294 The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.]]> 2020-06-10 05:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620009294 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620010769 Protestors are calling for the abolition of policing. But what would that actually look like? ]]> 2020-06-10 05:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620010769 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620015939 Police departments have enormous budgets. Are we getting what we pay for?]]> 2020-06-10 05:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620015939 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620018819 2020-06-10 05:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620018819 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620020506 It’s also an idea of what the country could be.]]> 2020-06-10 05:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620020506 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620035259 2020-06-10 05:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620035259 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620036623 In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice]]> 2020-06-10 05:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620036623 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620038665 2020-06-10 05:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620038665 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620041147 We must get it right this time, or risk losing our democracy forever. ]]> 2020-06-10 05:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620041147 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620044519 History shows police violence is intractable. What should we do? We must end the police.]]> 2020-06-10 05:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620044519 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620087157 Justine Damond’s death at the hands of American police is tragic.]]> 2020-06-10 06:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620087157 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620093650 It didn’t used to be this way, and current tensions over the funding differential is at the heart of many calls for police reform]]> 2020-06-10 06:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620093650 meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620104168 John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.]]> 2020-06-10 06:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/1ld47hvxodnwngbc/wish/620104168