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Defund The Police

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Defund The Police

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Defund The Police is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between June 29, 2022 and July 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The “Defund The Police” movement actually resulted in police being defunded”; “Defund The Police protest”; “many countries held Black Lives Matter and Defund The Police protests”. It most often appears alongside China, America, Black Lives Matter.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: June 29, 2022
  • Last seen: July 01, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?
June 29, 2022 · Original source
The “Defund The Police” movement actually resulted in police being defunded, either of literal funds or political capital, and that made it harder for them to police.
Highlights From The Comments On "The Origin Of Woke"
May 07, 2024 · Original source
I did this on purpose: I didn’t consider these sufficiently independent cases. My impression is that wokeness originated in the United States, reached other countries piecemeal, and that the parts they got weren’t necessarily parts that applied to their own situation. For example, many countries held Black Lives Matter and Defund The Police protests even when they had approximately no black people. In a situation like this, I don’t know how to determine the relationship between any given country’s level of civil rights law and its level of wokeness.
Links For July 2025
July 01, 2025 · Original source
50: Murder rates are plunging. Probably not related to current administration policy (the decline started in 2023), more likely due to a law-and-order backlash to Defund The Police, plus a good (compared to the COVID era) economy.
Inline links: are plunging