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₹4,278 crore for census and ₹92,054 crore for paramilitary forces: Budget 2020
As the works for the Census 2021 has begun, the government has allocated Rs 4,278 crore under th…
PTI
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Some protesters want to abolish the police, but what does that mean?
Police abolition includes "a radical investment in communities of color, including housing, jobs, a…
Starre Vartan
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Cities around the US have already cut at least $1.19 billion from police budgets since George Floyd was killed
Cities including New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Boston have answered calls to reduce police fu…
Sinéad Baker
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How much taxpayer money every state spends on police, in one map
Many Americans want changes to state and local authorities, including reducing police spending. DC …
Madison Hoff
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The real cost of the police, and why the NYPD's actual price tag is $10 billion a year
The New York Police Department budget swelled to $6 billion in 2020. We break down why the police c…
Abby Narishkin,Kuwilileni Hau…
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The New York City Council passed a budget to defund the NYPD by $1 billion — but nobody seems to like it
The $1 billion cancels the incoming class of officers, and will be reallocated to services like sum…
Ashley Collman
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Los Angeles mayor calls for the LAPD's budget to be cut by as much as $150 million after it had been set to increase by $122 million
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the cut in proposed spending a day after thousands of protesters demo…
Alex Nicoll
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8 charts that show how major US cities spend taxpayer dollars on police versus social programs
To do this, we used a database developed by the research nonprofit Lincoln Institute of Land Policy…
Madison Hoff
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A law enforcement group in Texas put up billboards warning visitors to Austin that the city slashed its police department budget
"Warning!!! Austin Police Defunded Enter at Your Own Risk," reads one of the billboards, erected by…
Yelena Dzhanova
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94% of Americans say it's time for police reform
There were clear divides by political affiliation and race when it comes to how much change is need…
Marguerite Ward
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It's been two years since the murder of George Floyd. Here's how policing in the country has changed.
Last year police murdered 1,144 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, 48 more people than i…
DeArbea Walker
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'It is our job to listen — and to act': NYC leaders respond to calls for police reform by supporting $1 billion slash to NYPD budget
The City Council "will bear the blame for every new victim, for every New Yorker in need of help wh…
Rhea Mahbubani
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All the celebrities who have signed an open letter to defund police budgets
The letter points to the deaths of individuals like George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor…
Claudia Willen
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Seattle's first Black female police chief announced her resignation after the city council voted to cut the department's budget and ax dozens of jobs
Carmen Best announced her resignation hours after the city council voted to reduce the department's…
Ashley Collman
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Aurora, Ill.'s Murder-Free Year Shows What Chicago Is Doing Wrong
"Aurora saw its factories shrivel and its street gangs thrive until the past five years, when its p…
Abby Rogers
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Black Lives Matter co-founder explains what 'defund the police' actually means
The demand is a major step that combines rerouting funds from police departments and redistributing…
Ellen Cranley
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Indian police stations are struggling to access computers as cybercrime zooms
In India, a third of police stations across 22 states do not have access to a functional computer, …
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Kenosha approved police body cams three years ago but put off buying them until 2022 — so there is no officer footage of Jacob Blake's shooting
Kenosha officials agreed to equip police with body cameras in 2017, but delays mean that officers w…