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Police Brutality Protests Spark Debate Over The Future Of Law Enforcement

Demonstrators march against racism and police brutality and to defund the Minneapolis Police Department on June 6, 2020 in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images)
Demonstrators march against racism and police brutality and to defund the Minneapolis Police Department on June 6, 2020 in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images)

Here & Now’s Tonya Mosley speaks with professor Lorenzo Boyd, director of the Center for Advanced Policing at the University of New Haven, about calls to defund police departments, and what the police department of the future would like in practice.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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