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LAPD Chief Michel Moore on efforts to ‘defund the police’
Protestors and Black Lives Matter activists are drumming up support for The People’s Budget, which would cut funding from the city’s police department and reallocate that money for social programs, for schools, and for help in low-income areas of…
By Steve Chiotakis • • 41m ListenProtestors and Black Lives Matter activists are drumming up support for The People’s Budget, which would cut funding from the city’s police department and reallocate that money for social programs, for schools, and for help in low-income areas of LA.
Activists say the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has become militarized, that it has used lethal and non-lethal force against people of color, and used dangerous weapons against mostly peaceful protestors.
KCRW talks about all this with LAPD Chief Michel Moore.
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Read the story8 minLAPD Chief Michel Moore on ‘defunding the police,’ use of deadly force, and gang database
“We welcome the conversation in reexamining what are the activities that we actually have law enforcement responsible for? And I believe that we've been asked for far too long to do too much. ... The 911 call system in American policing, not just here in LA, is the de facto helpline for any and all needs the public has," says Michel Moore.
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