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US police reform battle will go to local level

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Expert Briefings
Location:
UNITED STATES
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Geographic: United States NA
ISSN:
2633-304X
Citation:

Oxford Analytica (2020), "US police reform battle will go to local level", Expert Briefings.

https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB253707
Friday, July 3, 2020

Protesters nationwide are calling for police forces to be defunded or closed. Congress has struggled to pass remedial police reforms and can only legislate on federal police. Local-level police reforms are thus required, and this means tackling powerful police unions.

  • Some cuts to police budgets will be more cosmetic than real, achieved by cost-saving measures.
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