Democrat Politician AOC
So we’ve been talking about defund the police.
Democrat Politician Nancy Pelosi
There’s some issues that we ask police to do, like mental health issues or policing in schools and all the rest, that perhaps we can shuffle some of that money around.
Democrat Politician Cory Bush
Suck it up. Defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police.
Democrat Politician Kamala Harris
Mayor Eric Garcetti saying, take some of the money from policing, about $150 million. I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done.
Democrat Politician Mandela Barnes
Funding isn’t necessarily as aggressive as a lot of folks claim it. You know, school budgets get cut almost every year.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
Not only do we need to disinvest for in police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.
Democrat Politician Stacy Abrams
So yes to some defunding – We have to reallocate resources.
Democrat Politician Charles Booker
Would you echo calls from some Black Lives Matter activists to defund the police? – Well, I think now’s the time that we need to actually do that work.
Democrat Politician Kamala Harris
It is outdated. It is wrong headed thinking to think that the only way you’re going to get communities to be safe is to put more police officers on the street.
Democrat Politician Cory Bush
So yes, defund your butts, defund you.
Democrat Politician John Fetterman
We do need to reimagine how we are dispatched to these scenes in terms of what’s the best tool to bring.
Democrat Politician Larry Krasner
Again, what I mean by defund the police is not take all funds from the police. It is a reduction of the funding going into police department.
Democrat Politician Marcia Fudge
They are talking about reducing the allocation of resources to that department. I think every single city in this country ought to be thinking about the same thing.
Democrat Politician Mandela Barnes
The minute you talk about reducing a police department‘s budget and it’s like all hell breaks loose and everybody acts like you’re signaling Armageddon. But that’s not the case.
Democrat Politician Jamaal Bowman
Yes, I support the reallocation of resources from NYPD.
Democrat Politician Bill De Blasio
We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.
Democrat Politician Ayanna Pressley
Yes, I support the defund the police movement.
Democrat Politician Susan Rice
I’m for responsible reallocation of resources.
Democrat Politician Mondaire Jones
Defund the police.
Democrat Politician Gretchen Whitmer
I think you do all those other things. You don’t need all the money that’s going So yeah, I mean the spirit of it, I do support that.
Democrat Politician Mandela Barnes
We need to invest more in neighborhood services and programming for our residents, for our communities on the front end. Where will that money come from? Well, it can come from over bloated budgets and police departments.
Democrat Politician Charles Booker
So no, we should not continue to fund more and more our law enforcement, putting the pressure on them to be the whole arbiter of a safe community.
Democrat Politician Lisa Bender
Yeah, and you know, a lot of us were asked if we could imagine a future without police back in 2017 when we were running for office. And I answered yes to that question.
Democrat Politician London Breed
We are going to reduce funding in the police department and redirect that money.
Democrat Politician Julian Castro
There’s no reason the police budget should just keep growing and growing and growing. They can make sensible cuts to police.
Democrat Politician Ted Wheeler
We propose to redirect over $7 million from the police bureau.
Democrat Politician Eric Garcetti
That our city, through our city administrative officer, identify $250 million in cuts.
Democrat Politician Val Demings
The city council voting to dismantle, not just defund, but dismantle and rebuild the police department there. – Is that a strategy you could agree with? The council is being very thoughtful in terms of looking at all of the services that police provide.
Democrat Politician Rashida Talib
We’re cheated to leave tweeting, no more policing, incarceration and militarization, it can’t be reformed.
Democrat Politician Keisha Lance Bottoms
People want to see a reallocation of resources into community development and alternatives to just criminalizing responses to behavior.
Democrat Politician Andrew Cuomo
When they’re saying defund the police, what are they saying? They’re saying we want fundamental, basic change when it comes to policing. And they’re right.
Democrat Politician Cori Bush
We are reallocating funds.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
Then the police department here in Minneapolis needs to be dismantled and we need to start anew.
Democrat Politician Robert Francis O’Rourke
In some necessary cases, completely dismantling those police forces.
Democrat Politician Bennie Thompson
Police departments are taking a sizable amount of the budget of a lot of municipalities and other entities. We need to look at those budgets, pull some of the money back and invest it in other things.
Democrat Politician Bill De Blasio
We are committed to shifting resources.
Democrat Politician Chesa Boudin
We can talk about abolition. That’s a conversation that people can have. We can think about that as a theoretical concept for some people, as a goal to move towards a society where we don’t need police or where we don’t need police to carry guns.
Democrat Politician Larry Krasner
It needs to be defunded, by which I mean it’s funding reduced. I’m not talking about eliminated, but it needs to be defunded in favor of things that work better.
Democrat Politician Lisa Bender
To stop investing so much money in this militarized police force and instead invest in the things our community really needs.
Democrat Politician Ayanna Pressley
Yes, I support a radical reimagining of community safety and public safety.
Democrat Politician AOC
I do believe that we need to reallocate resources away.
Democrat Politician Eric Garcetti
Will this involve cuts? Yes, of course. To every department, including the police department.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
And so when we dismantle it, we get rid of that cancer.
Democrat Politician Cori Bush
When we said defund the police, the world woke up.
Democrat Politician Robert Francis O’Rourke
I really love that Black Lives Matter and other protesters have put this front and center to defund.
Democrat Politician AOC
Defunding police means defunding police. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed cuts to the NYPD budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The freshman Democrat adding the fight to defund policing will continue.
Democrat Politician Cory Johnson
We are going to reimagine policing in New York City.
Democrat Politician Lisa Bender
I think the idea of having a police-free future is very aspirational. I am willing to stand with community members who are asking us to think of that as the goal.
Democrat Politician Marcia Fudge
Should we be defunding or dismantling their police departments, such as in Minneapolis and New York? – My answer is yes to that. We need to be looking at it clearly.
Democrat Politician Ayanna Pressley
Which means reallocating and not further investing in a carceral state.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
Going through a process of dismantling that institution.
Democrat Politician Cori Bush
So defunding the police, for me, it means a reallocation of funds.
Democrat Politician AOC
Why use the word defund? Why use the word defund? This is the word that’s coming from the streets, you know?
Democrat Politician Ted Wheeler
We’re going to dissolve the gun violence reduction team, the school resource officer program, and the transit specialty units.
Democrat Politician Robert Francis O’Rourke
You don’t have one bad apple. You don’t have four bad apples. You have a system-wide problem in that police department. And only by completely dismantling that system and rebuilding it intentionally with the community members at the table do you have any hope of getting it right.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
Coming together as a community to reimagine what public safety looks like for us.
Democrat Politician Jamaal Bowman
We talk about defunding the police, defunding the Pentagon.
Democrat Politician Cori Bush
My push is that we defund our police departments.
Democrat Politician AOC
This idea of reprioritizing our budget, this idea of moving funds and reinvesting.
Democrat Politician London Breed
It means that we need to look at ways in which we can reduce the amount of resources that we’re providing to the department, redirect those funds.
Democrat Politician Cori Bush
To make sure that defund is first understood and that we bring that home to our community.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
So Minneapolis unanimously just voted on a resolution that will engage the community on a one-year process of what happens as we go through the process of dismantling the police department and starting anew.
Democrat Politician Lisa Bender
And what we committed to was a community process to help reimagine public safety.
Democrat Politician Robert Francis O’Rourke
The city council in Minneapolis made the right decision.
Democrat Politician AOC
So when we talk about defunding, it can show up in multiple ways.
Democrat Politician Bill De Blasio
We obviously took money out of the NYPD budget, put it into youth programs, put it into social services, put it into recreation centers for young people. That’s really the right direction. I’m glad we did that.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
Not only do we need to defund, but we need to dismantle and start anew. Allows us to really reimagine what public safety should look like in our community.
Democrat PoliticianCori Bush
We also cannot be afraid to talk about what defund the police means.
Democrat Politician Jamaal Bowman
It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and particularly our poor black and brown communities.
Democrat Politician AOC
I’m asking you to ask yourself, what are you willing to sacrifice to make sure that overfunded police departments are defunded?
Democrat Politician Lisa Bender
Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it.
Democrat Politician Ilhan Omar
And so what we are advocating for is a reorientation, reimagining of what public safety should be.
