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William King, a professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Service, recently was interviewed and quoted in a Birmingham, Michigan, news article about reforming and defunding the police. In “Local police policies: the rules governing officers,” King discussed his research on disbanding police agencies and the reasons why local governments dissolve their local police.