"Right now, there’s a very serious conversation around the country about defunding police departments. We need to divert funds from police departments and put them to other areas within city budgets, to make sure we can provide those services to communities and people that need them...Defunding the police is a critical first step, but that’s definitely not going to fix racism and people’s biases against black people."
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Chas Moore quoted in Checks and Balances: Two Texas Criminal Justice Experts on the Fight for Police Reform, by Amal Ahmed, Texas Monthly, (5 June 2020)
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