Defund/Abolition Is Dead in Blue Cities. What now?
Public safety policy reformer Lisa Daugaard won a MacArthur Genius Award in 2019 for her work creating the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, which has become a much touted national model for progressive criminal justice reform. The idea is to help low-level homeless offenders arrested for crimes like shoplifting by connecting them with shelter and mental health and addiction services, as opposed to just jailing them before releasing them back onto the streets.
But Daugaard is no police or prison abolitionist. In fact, she argues that the politics of abolition that emerged…
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