John S. Rodgers: “Much of the violence, when you hear about the shootings and…”

“Because the focus that I would like to see is on drug traffickers in trying to take More of that out of our area. Because Much of the violence, when you hear about the shootings and the stabbings in all our downtowns, most of that is driven by the drug problem. Well, there's a few things here. First of all, let me correct the record. I've never said let's defund the police. So again, let's use facts.” (18:32–18:40)

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