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Hey PooPoo: Who defunded the police exactly ? By how much money defunded and where ?
Hey trash poster your answer is one quick google search away
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-communityUS cities nowadays seem reluctant to even talk about defunding the cops because of how dumb it is, you only have to look at Portland PD and how much staff they lost in recent years
https://www.oregonlive.com/data/2021/11/why-portland-has-less-cops-now-than-any-point-in-past-30-years.htmlAt the end of the article you find this:
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“This is something we’ve never had before in American policing. It’s really the first time we’re seeing these levels of departures,” said Maria Haberfeld, a professor of police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. “To me, there’s a direct correlation with the anti-police sentiment of the last year-and-a-half.”
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To try to meet his short- and long-term police hiring goals, Wheeler has proposed pouring more money into the city’s recruitment efforts and offering $25,000 signing bonuses to prospective Portland officers.
There you go pierre
In b4 another wild trash post, "there's something something wrong with that source" and so on