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What comes after the "defund" fad?
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What comes after the "defund" fad?

It's time to get serious about crime and policing

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Matthew Yglesias
May 25, 2021
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I think the May 14 New York Times article “The Spike in Shootings During the Pandemic May Outlast the Virus” by Troy Closson was a kind of watershed moment in the crime discourse.

Not because the article was so amazing, but because it represented an interpretive pivot on how progressives are perceiving the 2020 murde…

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