Defunding the police/Définancement de la police
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Au cours de la dernière année, plusieurs discussions se sont fait sur la brutalité policière mais sans résultat concluant. Valérie Plante a décidé de répondre à tout cela, en augmentant considérablement le montant budgétaire alloué aux forces policières (plus de 30M$ jusqu’à maintenant). Pourtant, plusieurs solutions ont été suggérées pour attaquer le problème, une de ces solutions étant le définancement de la police. Mais qu’est-ce que c’est que le définancement de la police, qu’est-ce que cela implique et quel est le but du mouvement? Plusieurs activistes ont prit la peine de répondre à toutes ses questions mais leur travail a été éclipsé et discrédité par les médias et les politiciens. Dans cet épisode, nous prenons le temps de mettre la lumière sur le travail qui se fait et prenons plus d' une heure et demi à en parler sans interruption, partageant des statistiques et des faits historiques que nous espérons vous aideront à comprendre le mouvement. In the last year, many discussions were held regarding police brutality but there were hardly any clear solutions that followed in the political sphere. The city’s mayor Valérie Plante decided that what would be needed this year is a significant increase in the SPVM budget (up to 30M$ so far) despire many alternatives being suggested in response to this problem, one of them being defunding the police. But what does it mean to defund the police? What does that imply? What is the goal of the movement? Many activists took the time to answer all these questions throughout their work but were discredited by mainstream media and politicians. In this episode, we take the time to shed light on their work, taking more than an hour and thirty minutes to talk about it without interruption, sharing statistics and historical facts with the audience which hopefully will help you understand what the defund the police movement is all about. RESSOURCES (google docs): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUrBEOMy_5PaLfk58dW-ods70yVlS62zKTynFiTimBM/edit
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