As a follow-up to a blogpost by Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto Sandy Hudson on policy options for defunding the police and creating alternative services of safety and support, we've put together a resource list of further background information on the subject of divesting from the police and reinvesting in communities:
Podcasts
- CBC's Front Burner: Defunding police: what it means and how it could work
- CBC's The Current: June 9, 2020
- Now Magazine's Now What: The Case for Defunding the Police, Explained
- CBC's Party Lines: Who feels served and protected?
- Sandy and Nora: Abolish the police
- Toronto Star's This Matters: Desmond Cole and the case for defending the police
- Bad and Bitchy: Episode 92
Talks/Segments
- TVO's The Agenda: The fight to end anti-Black racism (featuring Kike Ojo, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Sandy Hudson & Roger Dundas)
- TVO's The Agenda: What does defunding the police really mean (featuring, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Lori Anne Thomas, Michael Bryant)
- The Broadbent Institute Progress Summit: Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard
- TED x Talks: Skin I'm In: Policing, Injustice & Youth Defiance | Scot Wortley & Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
Print
- Excessive Force: Toronto's Fight to Reform City Policing - Alok Mukherjee with Tim Harper (Book)
- Policing Black Lives - Robyn Maynard (Book)
- Policy Options for Defunding the Police & Creating Alternative Services of Safety and Support - Sandy Hudson (Policy guide, Broadbent Institute)
- Divest from Police, Invest in Communities - Anthony Morgan (Policy commentary, Broadbent Institute)
- Are we ready to talk about defunding the police? - Alok Mukherjee (Opinion, Globe and Mail)
- Defunding The Police Will Save Black And Indigenous Lives In Canada - Sandy Hudson (Opinion, Huffington Post)
- For Black people calling the police can be dangerous. It’s time we had another option - Angelyn Francis (Opinion, Toronto Star)
- Defund Police? Dismantle Them? What Then? - Crawford Kilian (Analysis, The Tyee)
- Do I believe we can have a police-free future in our lifetime? Absolutely”: Policing expert Robyn Maynard (Q&A, Toronto Life)
- Op-ed: In Defunding The Police, We Cannot Forget Black Womxn (Samantha Peters and Danait Mehreteab, Anti-hate Network)
- Before you "defund" the police (Open letter to Toronto City Council) - Zero Gun Violence
- Abolish The Police: The Financial Cost Of Law Enforcement In Prairie Cities (Emily Riddle, Yellowhead Institute)
