https://abidjanottawa.com/2023/03/26/defunding-the-police-reflecting-on-the-us-experience-and-lessons-learned-for-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defunding-the-police-reflecting-on-the-us-experience-and-lessons-learned-for-canada Exploring equity, social justice and community safety with a humanistic lens Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:06:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://abidjanottawa.com/2023/03/26/defunding-the-police-reflecting-on-the-us-experience-and-lessons-learned-for-canada/#comment-4 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:06:37 +0000 https://abidjanottawa.com/?p=5940#comment-4 At the beginning of the paper authors Cal Corley and Mark Reber declare themselves members of the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance then, at the end, declare they have no conflicts of interest. What isn’t mentioned in your post is that seven of the eight CSKA members are Canadian police forces. Yet, this is clearly presented as a paper supposedly giving an objective view on police defunding. Not surprisingly it concludes defunding has failed and what’s needed is more “”dialogue” – and it never raises the question of why police are needed at all or their history as slave catchers and Indigenous land clearers. The conflict of interest couldn’t be any more stark.

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