Up next for police defunding advocates: Win local elections
ATLANTA (AP) ??" Amid Americans' national reckoning on racism, a coalition of progressive groups is forming a political action committee to back local candidates who want to redirect money away from traditional police departments into other social services. An outgrowth of the "Defund the Police" movement, the WFP Justice Fund is led by the Working Families Party and the Movement for Black Lives' Electoral Justice Project. The PAC has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and to...
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