February 28, 2021 at 7:16 pm by Sindhu Ananthavel
Academic and law enforcement experts discussed the difficult history of law enforcement in the United States and what a future without it might look like in âDefund the Police: Reimagining Public Safety,â a University of California discussion held on Feb. 17.Â
In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd last summer, the discussion around police brutality and violence against Black Americans has centered around defunding and abolition, Gibbs said before the discussion.
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Organized by the Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO), the discussion was a part of the UC-wide Black History Month virtual event series and was moderated by Geoffrey Gibbs, of the UC Legal Office of Special Counsel, and included Nikki Jones, a professor of African-American studies at UC Berkeley, Jennifer Cobbina, a professor at Michigan State Universityâs School of Criminal Justice and Major David Hughes, a former Virginia policeman known for his New York Times op-ed piece on police reform published last year.