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Joe Biden is right about police funding
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Joe Biden is right about police funding

It's good and Democrats should do it

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Matthew Yglesias
Mar 07, 2022
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“Defund the police” was a terrible movement, but some mainstream Democrats have a tendency to blame defunders for their own political problems, so I’d hoped to leave the question alone for a while.

But the line in Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address where he said that we should address public safety concerns by funding the police rather than defunding…

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