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Black Lives Matter co-founder Cullors is an advocate of defunding, which redirects money typically budgeted for law enforcement to other community-serving initiatives, including education, healthcare, mental health services and social services programs.
黑人的命也是命運動的聯合創始人卡勒斯也倡導撤資警察，即將通常用于執法的預算資金重新分配用于其他社區服務項目，包括教育、醫療保健、心理健康服務和社會服務項目。
"This is a watershed moment," Cullors told Newsweek. "And we need bold and courageous approaches."
卡勒斯告訴新聞周刊，“這是一個分水嶺，我們需要大膽和勇敢的方法。”
Already, in the U.S. and in Canada, the idea is taking root, with city council members in Minneapolis voting to dismantle the police department implicated in Floyd's death and replace it with a new community-based public safety system.
這個想法已經在美國和加拿大生根發芽，明尼阿波利斯市議會成員投票決定解散與弗洛伊德之死有關的警察局，并用一個新的社區公共安全系統取代它。
Meanwhile, officials in Toronto are discussing a motion seeking to slash that city's police department budget by 10 percent.
與此同時，多倫多的官員正在討論一項動議，該動議旨在將該市警察局的預算削減10%。
"A significant re-allocation of resources away from ineffective or harmful police approaches and toward programs that demonstrably reduce crime could actually improve public safety," said Paul Hirschfield, an associate sociology and criminal justice professor at Rutgers University.
將資源從無效或有害的警察方法中大量重新分配，并用于可明顯減少犯罪的項目，實際上可以改善公共安全，羅格斯大學社會學和刑事司法副教授保羅·赫斯菲爾德說。
"Much of what the police do—random patrols, patrolling schools, traffic enforcement, and drug enforcement—do far too little for public safety to justify the enormous expense."
“警察在隨機巡邏、學校巡邏、交通執法和緝毒執法中所做的許多工作，對公共安全的影響太小，無法證明這項巨大的開支是合理的。”
In fact, Hirschfield pointed out, some tasks routinely handled by law enforcement in the U.S. are not assigned to them in other countries.
赫斯菲爾德指出，事實上，美國執法部門通常處理的一些任務在其他國家并不會分配給警察。
"Public schools in Europe maintain order and safety without stationing police inside them," he said.
他說：“歐洲的公立學校在沒有警察的情況下會維持秩序和安全。”
"And the much greater accessibility of mental health care and income and housing supports in Europe reduces the need for police to regulate the behavior and movements of the unhoused or respond to mental health crises."
“而且，在歐洲，精神衛生保健、收入和住房支持的可及性大大降低了警察監管無房者行動或應對心理健康危機的需要。”
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