First on Fox – One NPR correspondent He repeatedly called for the dismantling of the law enforcement system in America – he believed it was completely racist and could not be reformed.
Gene Demby is a reporter who reportedly focuses on telling “Dark Truths” on NPR’s culture wing, where he espoused left-wing views, including that America is “a country built and defined by white supremacy.” On his x account, where he calls himself “the LeBron James of Pig Feet,” Demby has expressed his most extreme ideologies, specifically that police do not prevent crime and perpetuate “racist state violence.”
“Abolition means no policing, because policing is an inherently destructive force,” he said in a June 2020 X post.
Demby made it clear that his approach is more radical than activists who seek to reform or defund the police.
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Gene Demby said that at NPR he is “involved in editing essays and blog posts for a team devoted to coverage of issues of race and ethnicity.” (Fox News Digital-Hannah Grossman | NPR)
“‘Reform’ is different from abolition because it’s based on the idea that policing should exist, but it should simply be modified — with more diverse police forces, with different training, etc. But none of that disrupts the inevitability of policing,” the NPR reporter wrote in an August 2020 post.
“Some people are pushing to abolish the police (because) that would rein in policing and some people are pushing to abolish the police (because) that’s the practical way to abolishment,” Demby added. “(The movement) is to abolish the police.”
Demby said the “important work” of police in society is greatly underrepresented.
“The police do not effectively solve violent crimes. They do not prevent crimes, they do not de-escalate situations, and they bring people into contact with the criminal justice system simply because they are poor. How are they helpful? What important function do they perform other than social control?” he added in the same thread.
He called the American public “racist.”
“Every time police have contact with Black people during a traffic stop or a distressed person calls 911, the potential for state violence — including the use of deadly force — is brought to the fore. The most direct way to prevent Black people from being killed by police is to prevent those unnecessary encounters. That eliminates the biases that come with police imperatives, 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, “We have to revoke the powers (the police) had, we have to change all the rules. From the beginning, no policing. We don’t need it.”
“Well, that’s what I’m saying,” Demby responded in August 2020.
“The police are not protecting anyone anymore,” he said in May 2021 to a hypothetical question “Who will protect…”.
Demby shared his left-wing views on policing during a stint with the taxpayer-funded NPR. His first byline appeared in early 2012.
Fox News Digital NPR reached out for comment about the reporter but did not immediately respond.
Demby leads NPR’s Code Switch podcast team, which according to its website boasts “the fearless conversations about race you’ve been waiting for.” At NPR, he writes about “whiteness” and “Envisioning a world without prisons,
According to Pew Research, his views on defunding the police state are more in line with white Democrats than with Black America.
During the peak of discussions about defunding the police, Pew Research showed in 2021 that — overwhelmingly — Democratic Black Americans support increased funding for law enforcement — far more so than white liberals.
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According to 2021 Pew Research, at the height of the national debate, defunding the police is more popular among white Democrats than Black Democrats. (Getty Images, iStock)
Only 25% of Black Americans surveyed supported cutting funding, and 36% wanted to maintain the status quo for police budgets. according to research,
NPR, more broadly, has reportedly been struggling to connect with audiences, according to the report. A report from the New York TimesDue to which revenue problems were arising.
“It is struggling with a dwindling audience and falling revenue — and an internal struggle over how to fix it,” wrote Times reporters Benjamin Mullin and Jeremy Peters.
Times reporters said that “years-long efforts to diversify NPR’s staff” had not produced the kind of increase in listeners that executives had hoped.
The report was long overdue NPR editor Uri Berliner He blew the whistle on alleged liberal bias in the organization through an article in The Free Press. He eventually resigned, saying he could not “work in a newsroom where I am disrespected by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the same problems at NPR that I have outlined.”
The story brought the discussion of liberal bias at NPR into the national spotlight, and focused attention on CEO Katherine Maher, who has been going viral for some time now. Social media posts reflecting far-left personal views,
(Fox News Digital | Hannah Grossman)
On the issue of funding cuts, Republicans have begun demanding that taxpayer money be stripped from NPR amid allegations of liberal bias.
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“The government should not be funding the media, and it certainly should not be funding media that has a clear bias.” Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.“NPR has had a clear left-wing bias for decades, and it continues to grow by the day. And there’s no reason for taxpayers to fund it,” said one of the people who introduced a bill to defund NPR.
Although most of NPR’s funding comes from corporate sponsors, According to its siteThe nonprofit also benefits directly and indirectly from federal funds. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which received a fiscal year 2026 advance of $535 million in the latest government funding deal, oversees both NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Fox News’s Brian Flood, Elizabeth Elkind and Aubrey Spady contributed to this report.
