n average, police spend 15 percent of their time enforcing traffic. The ongoing movement to defund the police demands that police funding be reallocated towards community priorities. If we understand the relation of policing and cars and the antidote – public transit – re-investing funding from police agencies to transit systems demonstrates a possible remedy to the dual threat of violence from policing and cars. By transitioning resources from police departments to transit agencies, cities could both reduce the need to protect communities from reckless driving and increase racial equity in our cities.
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