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A lesson for us here in Ottawa. ‘Defund the Police’ faure has Minneapolis residents taking matters into their own hands amid crime surge.
As the crime rate in Minneapolis continues to rise, residents in some neighborhoods are taking matters into their own hands and raising private money to pay for police patrols that had been eliminated thanks to the defund-the-police movement there.

Analysis: Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake | CNN Politics

On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.

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