by Steve Baker | Jun 17, 2020 | Defund Police, Politics, Protests
I concluded ‘Part 1’ of this discussion with a 2008 quote from then Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national...
by Steve Baker | Jun 10, 2020 | Defund Police, Politics, Protests
When the first calls for “defunding police” began to emerge from the riots and rubble caused by George Floyd’s death, I perked up with somewhat muted interest. Any good civil libertarian would hope to see more than just feigned reform of our nation’s...