Keisha Lance Bottoms says she’s defunding police through a “Reallocation of Resources”:
“A very simplified message is ‘defund the police.’ The overarching theme is that people want to see a reallocation of resources into community development and alternatives to just criminalizing responses to behavior. It’s incumbent upon us to help people articulate that frustration.
Even when I look at our budget, the vast majority of our police budget goes to salaries, pensions, workers’ compensation, and capital improvements. We’ve cut our corrections budget by 60%, and we are allocating that funding specifically to help with the conversion of our jail to a center of equity, health, and wellness.”