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Police Officer figurine (Getty Images)

The real history of "defund the police"

Paul Rosenberg
United States Park Police pushes back protestors near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

A year later: Cops still kill people

Igor Derysh
AT&T, Police, and cold hard cash (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Woke" corporations keep funding cops

Jon Skolnik
Activist Nola Darling talks on the megaphone in front of the Brooklyn Center police station at a protest over the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., on April 13, 2021. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Right-wing media defends Wright killing

Zachary Petrizzo
Pro-Trump protestors clash with police outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. | Police in riot gear toss a projectile at protesters after they refused to leave the area after the police killing of Duante Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States on April 11, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Crackdown in Minn.; restraint at Capitol

Chauncey DeVega
Merrick Garland | Proud Boys (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's DOJ must drain Trump's swamp

Heather Digby Parton
A pro-Trump mob floods into the Capitol Building after breaking into it on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Cop charged in Capitol riot unrepentant

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. | Protesters and supporters filter slowly through security onto the National Mall for the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Today Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Protest and "terrorism": 2017 to 2021

David Masciotra
Capitol Police and MPD used physical force and tear gas to force the Trump supporters further away from the U.S Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The protesters stormed the historic building, breaking windows and clashing with police. Trump supporters had gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Feds say Proud Boys targeted police

Roger Sollenberger
A protester carries a sign that reads "Defund The Police" during the Black Women Matter "Say Her Name" march on July 3, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Protests continue around the country after the death of African Americans while in police custody. (Eze Amos/Getty Images)

Murder data debunks "defund-crime" link

Igor Derysh
Demonstrators hold placards saying 'Defund The Police' during the protest. (John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

After the protests, police budgets cut

Igor Derysh
(Getty/Saul Loeb)

Trump wants cities to pledge allegiance

Sasha Abramsky - Truthout
Riot police blocking the entrance to I-195 during the demonstration (Adam DelGiudice/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Defund police, re-fund mental health

Matthew Rozsa
Riot Police | Medicine Vial (Getty Images/Salon)

Psychedelic drugs and state violence

Jonathan Dickinson, Dimitri Mugianis
Police officers in riot gear stand in formation at a cross street as they make their way to where protesters are gathered on May 30, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Protests have erupted after recent police-related incidents resulting in the deaths of African-Americans Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

The psychology of police violence

Matthew Rozsa
Community members take part in a Black Lives Matter protest, organized by Black Men Rising, in Camden, NJ on June 13, 2020. (Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Camden didn't cancel police, it rebooted

Igor Derysh
University of California police contain demonstrators Wednesday at the intersection of Bay and High streets, an entrance to the UC Santa Cruz campus. (Dan Coyro/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Get police out of schools, off campuses

Claudia Garcia-Rojas, Charlotte Rosen - Truthout
Lindsey Graham | Data Encryption (Getty Images/Salon)

The GOP wants to make encryption useless

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump speaks at the event where he will sign an executive order on police reform, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, June 16, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump has learned nothing

Heather Digby Parton
Police officers pepper spray a woman next to the Colorado State Capitol as protests against the death of George Floyd continue (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Police reformers aim for drastic changes

Igor Derysh
A demonstrator is seen in front of a police barricade during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after being pinned down by a white police officer (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The right's "law and order" fetish

David Masciotra
Two police officers take a knee during a demonstration by protesters in Times Square over the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Copaganda: Media still playing along

Sophia Tesfaye
Police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd while in police custody on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

"Bad apples" or a blue code of silence?

Gregory Antollino
Demonstrators, gathered at Lafayette Park across from the White House, attempt to breach a police barricade during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after being pinned down by a white police officer in Washington, United States on May 30, 2020. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A nationwide police riot

Andrew O'Hehir
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