{"id":228910,"date":"2020-08-07T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/podcast\/the-policymakers-path-to-defund-the-police-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:59","slug":"the-policymakers-path-to-defund-the-police-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/the-policymakers-path-to-defund-the-police-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The policymaker\u2019s path to defund the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As calls to \u201cdefund the police\u201d have spread around the world, we\u2019ve seen the violence police inflict upon communities of\u00a0colour. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057\/9780230355866_2\">Race-based data is hard to come by in Canada<\/a>, but the data we do have\u00a0show\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca\/inquiries\/ipperwash\/policy_part\/projects\/pdf\/AfricanCanadianClinicIpperwashProject_SIUStudybyScotWortley.pdf\">Black and Indigenous people to be disproportionately policed and to face high rates of police violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, many Canadians are seriously considering the need to reform or even abolish our police forces. But what does the movement to defund the police require from a policy perspective? And how can people working within Canadian institutions play a role in this global movement? To answer some of those questions, we\u2019re joined by Holly Campeau and\u00a0Kik\u00e9\u00a0Roach.<\/p>\n<p>Holly Campeau is an assistant professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Alberta specializing in the intersection between criminal justice, cultural sociology, and law. She is also senior researcher with the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Kik\u00e9\u00a0Roach is the\u00a0Unifor\u00a0National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, where she teaches courses in social movements and politics, and in human rights. As a lawyer, she was an advocate for accountability and reform in policing and in detention\u00a0centres\u00a0for many years representing organizations such as the Black Action Defense Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Download for free. New episodes every other week. Tweet your questions and comments to @IRPP or @jbugiel.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Photo:\u00a0People chanting slogans and showing BLM fist during a rally to protest the death of a Black woman with mental illness, died in police presence on May 30, 2020 in Toronto, Canada. Shutterstock\/By arindambanerjee<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As calls to \u201cdefund the police\u201d have spread around the world, we\u2019ve seen the violence police inflict upon communities of\u00a0colour. Race-based data is hard to come by in Canada, but the data we do have\u00a0show\u00a0Black and Indigenous people to be disproportionately policed and to face high rates of police violence. 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