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Russell Fry: “If we pay cops, if we put more cops in the street, guess…”

Featuring: Russell Fry, Republican | U.S. House South Carolina, District 7

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Published | Video Starts at 05:22

We're going to create like, you know, cookie foundations and random things that don't actually do anything to solve the problems of inner cities. And so cities need to wake up and realize, hey, If we pay cops, if we put more cops in the street, guess what? Even in our city, crime will go down. Some places like Chicago obviously want to continue on and make this a partisan issue. But public safety is not a partisan issue. (05:22–05:28)

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Asserts that increasing police presence will reduce crime.

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