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The Consequences of Defunding the Police
The Wall Street Journal puts out a defund the police has happened failed and we are facing consequences article or op ed more often than they declare the pandemic over. I think, you know, it's just another slight of hand, copaganda thing, which is to pull out all the stops to counter it. The uprisings of 2020 were very effective in creating a crisis of legitimacy for for police and policing. And so the first thing I do is reach for their most reliable weapon, which is fear with the crime statistics and the crime wave and the crime going up. There's a disconnect between even in communities where homicides did in fact go up, the people who are most likely to experience