Police Education & Training

Since we often hear about how stressful, complicated and dangerous the job of law enforcement is, why aren't we requiring more education and training for those jobs? Since police are surely paid like a professionals, the requirements to obtain the job should be commensurate.

The Police

The Inappropriately High Cost Of Police

This Is How Much Major Cities Prioritize Police Spending Versus Everything Else

Growing calls to “defund the police,” explained

Why Rising Police Budgets Aren’t Making Cities Safer

Cities Spend More and More on Police. Is It Working?

How Much Do U.S. Cities Spend Every Year On Policing?

City Coffers, Not Police Budgets, Hit Hard By the High Cost of Brutality

What a World Without Cops Would Look Like

NEW YORK CITY AND LOS ANGELES SLASH BUDGETS — BUT NOT FOR POLICE

POLICE BUDGETS PUT OTHER RESOURCES IN JEOPARDY

The Price of Defunding the Police

SPENDING BILLIONS ON POLICING, THEN MILLIONS ON POLICE MISCONDUCT

Federal Programs and The Real Cost of Policing

Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service

Police Misconduct Is Increasingly a Financial Issue

No More Cop Unions

Making Policing More Affordable

Measuring the Costs of Police Services 

Police and Corrections Expenditures

How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality

The Burden of Municipal Police Costs