Local LGBTQ organizations and activists have expressed mixed views over whether the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department should be partially or completely “defunded” in the midst of a growing nationwide debate triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement to address police brutality and racial bias.
Several local LGBT groups and activists have said they support calls by the Black Lives Matter D.C. organization for significantly reducing the D.C.
police budget and diverting police funds to social services and community-led violence interruption programs. But none of the groups or activists who spoke to the Washington Blade has gone as far as others who say the D.C.