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Zachary Roper: “In the Kenosha Police Department, they had another budget…”

Featuring: Zachary Roper, Democratic | Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 47:36

It took a long time to get that training especially established. And then the funding and things for that went away correct. So it's not there anymore. So that's, that's, that's a big one. In the Kenosha Police Department, they had another budget cut and had to cut, I think, 20 new officers off from joining the Kenosha police force. and direct them elsewhere just because they didn't have enough money to either a train them or staff them or, you know, keep them in commercial. (47:36–47:48)

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Asserts that the Kenosha Police Department had budget cuts leading to the reduction of 20 new officers.

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