As demonstrations continue nationwide and anti-racist organizers push to defund the police across the country, we released a tool that calculates the percentage of police budgets to the total respective budget of the 300 largest U.S. cities. Find your city:costofpolice.org 
“Budgets are about priorities. We need to grapple w/ the fact that elected officials are prioritizing huge portions of our tax dollars-- over a third of total budgets in many cities-- to pay for the brutalization and murder of Black and Brown people by the police.- @traceyecorder
“This massive, immoral misuse of our funds should horrify us & move us to demand enormous budget shifts.
While our biggest cities have enormous police forces, smaller cities-- like Elkwood, CA, and Brownsville, TX-- allocate over 1/2 their budget to police. This is unacceptable.
While our biggest cities have enormous police forces, smaller cities-- like Elkwood, CA, and Brownsville, TX-- allocate over 1/2 their budget to police. This is unacceptable.
“Right now, our elected officials continue to underfund resources our communities desperately need, while funneling egregious amounts of money into police departments that perpetuate fear and violence among communities of color.
Nobody living in this country should have to sacrifice access to healthcare, transportation, education, childcare, and safe housing in exchange for a brutal police force.
Our elected officials have blood on their hands. We deserve so much better. #DefundThePolice
Our elected officials have blood on their hands. We deserve so much better. #DefundThePolice
