Watch the CBSN Originals documentary "What Does It Mean to Defund the Police?" in the video player above. A new documentary from CBSN Originals features voices on different sides of the issue to ...

Amid the nationwide protests that have followed the death of George Floyd, momentum is rising for reforming the criminal justice system, with loud calls to “defund the police”—an umbrella ...

and other police-involved shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund the police" became a rallying cry at protests across the country. Critics have blasted it as undermining support for ...

What Is ‘Defund the Police’? “Defund the police” is a phrase used to call for law enforcement reform in the United States.

The aftermath of George Floyd's death in the custody of Minneapolis police has sparked a rallying cry from thousands of protesters, politicians and community leaders across the country ...

Now a longtime demand from social-justice campaigners has become a rallying cry: Defund the police. This is in one sense a last-resort policy: If cops cannot stop killing people, and black people ...

Here is why we should not defund the police. Major reforms are underway. In Seattle and Washington state, we already are doing what defunding proponents and police abolitionists are calling for ...

But when the “defund the police” movement began emerging in sections of the left in 2020 after George Floyd’s murder by a police officer in Minneapolis, the reaction from Democratic leaders ...

Since George Floyd’s death, a long-simmering movement for police abolition has become part of the national conversation, recast slightly as a call to “defund the police.” For activists ...

But three years after “defund the police” became a rallying cry across the nation, efforts to dramatically divert resources from police or do away with conventional policing entirely have ...