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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/what-does-defund-police-really-mean/612904/

'Defund the Police' Does Not Mean Defund the Police. Unless It Does.

2020-06-14 02:45:00, Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic

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/News/Politics

Word Count:
1293

Words/Sentence:
20

Reading Time:
8.62 min

Reading Quality:
Intermediate

Readability:
11th or 12th

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And note that "defunding" might very well zero out budgets for police, just not for "public safety"-a field that will come to include, by Lopez's telling, therapists, medics, social workers, addiction counselors, and many other traditionally irenic trades.

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