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Ryan Clancy: “Police do not keep us safe. Police do not prevent crime…”

Featuring: Ryan Clancy, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 19

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Reviving Milwaukee's Socialist Movement - An Interview with Ryan Clancy

Published | Video Starts at 26:23

I would love to know what a serious public safety model looks like with alternatives to serious policing. Yeah, absolutely. Serious public safety. We're serious about safety. We're not serious about continuing to throw money at policing. Police do not keep us safe. Police do not prevent crime. They just address it after the fact. So every dollar that we can take away from police and put into things that actually reduce crime, those are things like housing and public spaces and mental health. Right. (26:23–26:29)

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Asserts that police do not prevent crime but only address it after it occurs.

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