Cavalier Johnson: “We would have essentially had to slash half of the Milwaukee…”

“… happened, what would our city have looked like if Act 12 had not been passed and we just continued on the status quo? So what would have happened is that We would have essentially had to slash half of the Milwaukee Police Department. Right. So the police department would have been totally ineffective. We would have had to get rid of, I believe, a quarter of the Milwaukee Fire Department, which, as of not just this year, but last year, certainly.” (03:52–03:57)

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