Cori Bush Wants to Defund the Police. My Neighbors Have Other Ideas.

Protesters hold signs in support of defunding the police on July 25, 2020 in Oakland, California. (Natasha Moustache/Getty Images)
The congresswoman can afford private security. Those who live in Oakland, California, don't have that luxury.
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Leighton Akira Woodhouse is a documentary filmmaker and journalist whose work spans factory farming, animal rights, immigration, the alt-right, and pompous European social theory.
I first came across his work in The Intercept, but he’s written for Newsweek, The Nation, The New Republic and Gawker. (I try not to hold that last one against him.) Leighton a…

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