First appearance on FOX – Ann NPR correspondent He believed the American law enforcement complex was irredeemably racist and beyond any reform, and he repeatedly called for its destruction.
Jean Demby is what is calledThe dark truthOn NPR’s culture section, he promotes left-leaning views, such as that America is “a country built and defined by white supremacy.” On his X account, he expresses his most extreme views, calling himself the “LeBron James of the Pig’s Feet” and saying that police do not prevent crime but perpetuate “racist state violence.”
“Police are an inherently destructive force, so abolition means ‘no’ policing,” he said in a June 2020 X post.
Demby stressed that his views are more radical than those of activists calling for reform and cuts to the police budget.
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Jean Demby says she helps edit “essays and blog posts for the team covering race and ethnicity issues” at NPR. (Fox News Digital – Hannah Grossman | NPR)
“‘Reform’ is not the same as abolition because it is based on the idea that police should exist, but they are simply modified. Police forces are more diverse;[erent] “There’s training and so on. But none of it gets in the way of police doing their jobs,” the NPR correspondent said in an August 2020 post by X.
“There are people calling for funding to be cut. [because] Pushing back against those who advocate defunding the police [because] That’s the realistic path to abolition,” Demby continued.[The movement] IS will abolish the police.”
Mr Denby said police performed few “vital functions” in society.
“Police are not effectively solving violent crimes. They are not preventing crime. They are not mitigating situations. They are putting people in contact with the criminal justice system because they are poor. How are police serving? What important function do they serve other than social control?” he continued in the same thread.
He also called Americans “racist.”
“The possibility of state violence (including lethal force) arises every time police interact with a Black person in a pointless traffic stop or a neurotic gentrifier calls 911. The most direct way to prevent Black people from being killed by police is to end these unnecessary encounters — eliminating the biases that run counter to police orders, individual officers, and the racist public who use 911 like a customer service hotline,” he said in August 2020.
Demby responded to a user who said his “privileges must be revoked” by saying: [the police] “In order to have fun, all the rules have to change. There’s no need for policing, basically. There’s no need for that.”
“Exactly, that’s what I’m saying,” Denby responded in August 2020.
“The police aren’t protecting anyone right now,” he said in May 2021 in response to the “Who’s going to protect us?” hypothetical.
Demby expressed left-leaning views on police during his time at the taxpayer-funded network, NPR, with the first articles under his byline published as early as 2012.
Fox News Digital reached out to NPR for comment about the correspondent but did not immediately receive a response.
Demby leads NPR’s Code Switch podcast team, which, according to its website, bills itself as “the bold conversation about race you’ve been waiting for.” On NPR, “white people” and “Imagine a world without prisons”
His views on defunding the police state are closer to white Democrats than to black Americans, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
As the debate over police budget cuts reaches a fever pitch, a Pew Research Center survey found that Democratic Black Americans generally support cutting police budgets in 2021. Increased funding for law enforcement agencies This is more true than among white liberals.
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At the height of the national debate, a 2021 Pew Research Center survey found that cutting police budgets is more popular among white Democrats than Black Democrats. (Getty Images, iStock)
Only 25% of black Americans surveyed supported budget cuts, while 36% wanted police budgets to remain the same. Research suggests.
More broadly, NPR has been struggling to connect with its audience, which has led to revenue problems, according to a report in the New York Times.
“The network is struggling with declining viewership and revenue and is in the midst of internal conflict over how to solve the problem,” Times reporters Benjamin Mullin and Jeremy Peters wrote.
The Times reporters noted that “NPR’s long-standing efforts to diversify its staff” have not boosted listenership as much as executives had hoped.
The report came after longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner blew the whistle on the network’s alleged liberal bias in a Free Press op-ed, eventually resigning, declaring that he “could not work in a newsroom where I was scorned by a new CEO whose divisive views underpin the very problems I identified at NPR.”
The article focused on CEO Katherine Maher, who has been a talking point over the past few years, propelling discussion of NPR’s liberal bias into the national zeitgeist. Social media posts expressing far-left personal views.
(Fox News Digital | Hannah Grossman)
Regarding defunding, Republicans have begun calling for stripping taxpayer money from NPR amid accusations of liberal bias.
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“The government should not be funding the media, and it should not be funding media that is obviously biased,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who introduced the bill to defund NPR. “NPR has had a clear left-wing bias for decades that’s only getting stronger every day. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund it.”
Most of NPR’s funding comes from corporate sponsors. According to the siteThe nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which benefits both directly and indirectly from federal funding, received $535 million upfront for fiscal year 2026 in its most recent government funding contract and oversees both NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Fox News’ Brian Flood, Elizabeth Elkind and Aubrey Spady contributed to this report.
