Defunding America’s Forces of Death
For too long, the United States has failed to invest in alternative ways of promoting security at home and abroad, and instead emphasized strategies and agents of punishment and death. Policymakers must now take steps to shift resources away from this failed approach.
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NEW YORK – The mass protests in response to George Floyd’s death in May at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer have ignited and accelerated demands for radical reform of law-enforcement procedures and funding across America. As pressure grows to shift domestic government spending away from punitive policing, policymakers in Washington, DC should be doing the same with US international aid.