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Ron DeSantis: “Any jurisdiction, city, state that indulged in [defunding…”

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Governor DeSantis Announces Law Enforcement Recruitment Milestone

Published | Video Starts at 01:49

They just get released. And then, of course, you saw the BLM riots, you saw attacks on law enforcement. You saw movements to defund the police. And we can say definitively Any jurisdiction, city, state that indulged in [defunding the police] during that period of time, six, seven years ago to the present, that those forays, those policy forays, failed. and they failed miserably, and they failed in ways that have harmed an awful lot of people. (01:49–02:04)

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Asserts that defunding the police policies have failed in jurisdictions that implemented them.

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