What Does it Mean to Defund the Police? Heuristics and Emotions in Understandings of Police Reform

• In Event: The Politics of Race and Policing

Brief Overview

Using free-write responses we collected while fielding a national survey on policing and racial justice policies in the US, we explore the varied understandings of the phrase “defund the police."

Authors

• Geneva Valerie Cole, William and Mary

• Genevieve Aaron Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison