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Forget “Defund the Police” — Two Dems say “Defund War on Drugs”
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Forget “Defund the Police” — Two Dems say “Defund War on Drugs”

Forget “Defund the Police” — Two Dems say “Defund War on Drugs” Reps. Cori Bush and Bonnie Watson Coleman say after 50 years of a failed ‘war on drugs,’ it’s time to flip the script on police and remove the very policy that’s enabled the unequal enforcement of American justice.

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