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Collected Item: “Policing Isn't Broken — It Was Designed This Way”

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Policing Isn't Broken — It Was Designed This Way

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Youtube video

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Our policing institutions were designed to exert control over Black people.

We need to limit the role, responsibilities, power, and funding of police so interactions that lead to the death of Black people don't happen in the first place.

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system, community, design, police, policing, power, funding, defund, death, Social Justice, ASU, HST580

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h0NSSfGrnk

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

ACLU

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2021
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