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Police funding is far more suspect to politics than school funding, which is usually set by a state-level formula. Voter support for school bond measures and th
by shuckles 3y ago
Police funding is far more suspect to politics than school funding, which is usually set by a state-level formula. Voter support for school bond measures and the like is probably higher at a baseline than police or public safety measures.
- shuckles 3y agoThinking about this more: the reason you might have this impression is that police funding cuts are actually discussed a lot more than school cuts. The Seattle city council actually voted 7-2 during peak BLM to cut the police budget in half before their voters forced them to walk it back in outrage. Imagine a big city politician seriously entertaining cutting the school budget in half. It’d never happen.