1/ I’m fascinated by a India Walton, the newly elected socialist mayor of Buffalo, New York. “Instead of defund, we say we’re going to reallocate funds. We’re going to fully fund community centers. We’re going to make the investments that naturally reduce crime, such as …
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2/…investments in education, infrastructure, living wage jobs. Nothing stops crime better than a person who is gainfully employed. If you have to go to work, you don’t have time to be out in the streets with all these shenanigans.”
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Why must you “reallocate money away from” (or “take funding away from”, or just “defund”) the police in order to create jobs? Also how would additional money help education?
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Replying to @apurpleshadow
Additional money helps education in a huge way, hiring more teachers, making more cultural opportunities available for children, and helping kids with special needs and learning disabilities.

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Replying to @marwilliamson
So why does that money have to come from law enforcement? Why doesn’t it come from the trillions of dollars we send overseas in aid? Why don’t we stop fighting endless wars? Why don’t we pull our troops once and for all out of the Middle East? What about those cops jobs?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Also we spend more money on education than any other country and our education is relatively average. I don’t think throwing money at the problems is the answer