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Matt Cartwright: “The U.S. Department of Justice provides funding for police…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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MATT CARTWRIGHT

Published | Video Starts at 03:40

But it also includes grants for local law enforcement, local police forces, police forces that are strapped for cash, and also District attorney's offices. It is a key function of the The U.S. Department of Justice provides funding for police forces and district attorney's offices to investigate and prosecute crime. and catch bad guys, but also to prosecute them. And in that budget, in the Justice Department budget, which I set as chairman for the last two years, we were … (03:40–14:21)

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Asserts that the Department of Justice funds local law enforcement and prosecution efforts.

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