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University of Notre Dame professors Anna Haskins, the Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology and associate director of Notre Dame’s Ini...

Please join us 12/1 for a Reimagining Community Safety discussion with Professor Michelle Phelps on the political difficulty of "defunding the police."

I ran into this problem myself last week when i praised conservatives who are finally embracing criminal justice reform and i think i broke twitter, okay? you would have thought i said i was joining the clan based on the response. what he is thinking? i was thinking about the pain of 2 million people locked up in u.s. jails and prisons right now, got the biggest prison population in the world and they need champions in both parties. i was thinking about the bad old days in the 1990s when republicans and democrats like bill clinton, hillary clinton, joe biden were all cheerleading for building ...

And the reason is that, you know, there has been a shift in the rhetoric but not a meaningful shift in policy. barack obama's drug czar gil kerlikowske said we should not be at war with our own people. that is right. but if you actually take a look at the obama administration's drug control budget, the obama administration invests about the same ratio of dollars in enforcement as compared to drug prevention or treatment as the bush administration. and so we've seen a shift in rhetoric but i don't think we've yet seen the kind of change in policy that would be necessary for you know it to have ...

Know, there has been a shift in the rhetoric, but not a meaningful shift in policy. barack obama's drug czar has said we shouldn't call this a war on drugs any more because we on the not be at war with our own people and that is absolutely right, but if you actually take a look at the obama administration drug control budget, the obama administration invested the same racial dollars and enforcement as compared to drug prevention and treatment as the bush administration. so we have seen a shift in rhetoric but i don't think we have yet seen the kind of change in policy that would be necessary f...