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Defund the Pentagon

Defunding police is a great step forward, at the local level, to redistribute money to services that prevent crime in the first place.

After all, police funding is highly problematic. The New York Police Department (NYPD), for example, has a total budget of roughly $10 Billion per year, with $6B for operational expenses and $4B for pensions. Ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg once said: “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the…