Heeding cries to “defund the police,” Portland, Oregon, cut millions from its police budget. Now, a year and a half later, officials are partly restoring the cut funds. Portland's not the only city doing an about-face.
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2020, file photo, police use chemical irritants and crowd control munitions to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Portland, Ore. A year after Portland's police department underwent significant budget cuts amid demands to defund the police, the city is looking to spend more than $5 million for police investments, including hiring more officers and buying body-worn cameras.
Among the rallying cries were “defund the police” — a call for elected officials to reallocate some law enforcement funding elsewhere. In June 2020, the Portland City Council and the mayor answered by cutting millions from the police budget. “Many Portlanders no longer feel safe,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said. “And it is our duty, as leaders of this city, to take action and deliver better results within our crisis response system.”Portland isn’t the only liberal city doing an about-face on police spending.
“The defund-the-police movement spearheaded an opportunity for historically disenfranchised and historically under-resourced communities to express their continued discontent with policing,” said Howard Henderson, the Center for Justice Research director at Texas Southern University.
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