A new official report from Nova Scotia, commissioned after a 2020 mass shooting, that suggests that police should become “secondary” in some emergency response situations, and that emergency mental healthcare needs to lead the way in the process of defunding the police. We are joined by El Jones is a poet, journalist, academic, and abolitionist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. El was the lead author of the 2022 report, Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for Halifax. She was also Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.

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