Andrea Headley

scholar of racial equity and criminal justice policy at Georgetown University

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With gun violence up, LA’s police budget is going up too.

A year after George Floyd’s murder, a rise in homicides has changed the conversation around ‘defund the police’

With gun violence up, LA’s police budget is going up too.

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