In 2020, “defund the police” was everywhere. Now, even politicians like AOC and Zohran Mamdani have turned around on it. But ...

Project H.O.O.D. invited Chicago police officers to meet kids on the South Side, working to undo years of fear fueled by the ...

In late summer 2020, as protests over the murder of George Floyd spread across the country, Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico told a group of young progressive activists that it was “rich” ...

Elena Leopold, executive director of an all-female transition team, was among the more than 230 past and present staffers of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio who signed an June 2020 “open letter” to de ...

After "defund the police" sparked a political backlash in 2020, Democratic candidates largely stopped using the slogan, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For months, the 11 members of Ramsey County's Appropriate Responses Initiative planned and trained around how to teach police ...

James Talarico's campaign denies he supported defunding police after resurfaced 2020 video shows him questioning why the idea was off-limits.

Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition The north may not remember, but 9 August this year marked the 12th anniversary of ...

Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was accused of “laundering” his vocal defund-the-police stances by cynically toying with keeping tough-on-crime Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner if ...

New York’s real estate policies bear a striking resemblance to the “defund the police” movement that spread through progressive cities in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer.

Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks explains how he is working to rebuild trust.