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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by Fjolsvith on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:46PM (#23470715)
Probably still confusing in any place besides mid-to-large urban areas in the US.
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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:51PM (#23470756)
Thanks to the opioid epidemic, this is no longer true. There are huge swaths of rural and Rust Belt America that now realize that the criminal justice approach to a drug problem is counter productive.
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