Wednesday, Jun 10, 2020
CENTRAL TEXAS — Many across the nation are calling for change in the form of defunding police departments.
To understand what defunding a department could mean, 25 News sought advice from local criminal justice expert, Tammy Bracewell Ph.D.
“The central idea behind it is not all bad - the central idea behind it is to move some of those social services the police were never meant to respond to anyway, “ said Bracewell.
As a master peace officer with decades of experience, Bracewell now acts as a professor at Texas A&M Central Texas.
“We have shortages of police officers across the country, we simply just don’t have enough officers to respond to what they need to,“ explained Bracewell.
