{"id":1972,"date":"2020-07-08T10:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2020-07-08T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:11:46","slug":"police-reform-what-the-us-can-learn-from-the-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/07\/08\/police-reform-what-the-us-can-learn-from-the-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Police reform: what the US can learn from the Global South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the killing of George Floyd in May, \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 has become a rallying cry for many protestors in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.\u00a0<strong>Sabine <\/strong><strong>Kurtenbach<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/504\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/504\/ansorg-nadine\"><strong>Nadine Ansorg<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0look at what lessons can be learned from police reform in the Global South. They write that when searching for such lessons, the context of reform is important, as is the often need for the continuity of personnel, for consensus, and to ensure institutional accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/usappblog\/2020\/07\/02\/what-the-us-can-learn-from-the-global-south-about-police-reform\/\">here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the killing of George Floyd in May, \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 has become a rallying cry for many protestors in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.\u00a0Sabine Kurtenbach\u00a0and\u00a0Nadine Ansorg\u00a0look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/07\/08\/police-reform-what-the-us-can-learn-from-the-global-south\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}