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June 14, 2025

defund the police

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After years ‘Defund the Police’ calls, Stein joins federal law enforcement support letter

May 11, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has joined a letter urging Congress to pass the Public Safety Officer Support Act of 2022.   “As attorneys general, ensuring that public safety officials have the support […]

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MATTHEWS: More big-city Democrat mayors begin to see folly of defunding police

December 22, 2021 Stacey Matthews

In September 2020, I wrote a column about how opposition to the “Defund the Police” movement was growing in places you’d think it wasn’t.  The movement, which rose to national prominence in the summer of […]

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MATTHEWS: Democrats setting themselves up for 2022 catastrophe with war on parents

October 27, 2021 Stacey Matthews

We’re still days away from Halloween, but the masks are slipping off of Democrats to expose yet another unseemly side — and just as campaigning for the all-important 2022 midterm primaries and subsequent general elections […]

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BERGER: Don’t defund police

August 6, 2020 Judge Phil Berger, Jr.

The primary role of any government is the protection of the people and their property. To fulfill this fundamental mission, government at all levels requires public and robust debate, effective enforcement of the law, and […]

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Up next for police defunding advocates: Win local elections

July 14, 2020 Bill Barrow, Associated Press

ATLANTA — A coalition of progressive groups are forming a political action committee to back local candidates who want to redirect money away from police departments into social services. An outgrowth of the “Defund the […]

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Calls for de-escalation training grow after Atlanta shooting

June 17, 2020 Kate Brumback and R.J. Rico, Associated Press

ATLANTA — The deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta in the span of less than three weeks have led to a push in the U.S. for more training of police […]

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Durham approves police budget increase despite ‘defund’ movement pressure

June 17, 2020 North State Journal Staff

DURHAM — An increase in the city’s police budget was approved at the June 15 Durham City Council meeting, allocating a total of $70 million to the DPD, about 14% of the city’s $503 million […]

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HILL: Defund the police…and then what?

June 16, 2020 Frank Hill

States have been referred to as “laboratories of democracy.” And we are seeing the dystopian experimental petri dish of “what America can become” in Seattle. Protestors have taken over city blocks with the support of […]

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