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Cities, towns oppose bill to ban police budget cuts
Saying he wants to short-circuit "defund the police'' movements here, a first-term state lawmaker is pushing legislation designed to bar cities from cutting public safety funding.
CD6 foes make false allegations against each other
Candidates in a competitive new congressional district are lobbing false allegations at one another in ads over abortion and police support.
House panel looks to blunt ‘defund the police’
A House panel voted Monday to ask voters to bar cities from cutting funding for police and sheriffs or risk losing state aid. Rep. Walt Blackman, R-Snowflake, said the move... […]
Feds’ Phoenix PD probe preamble to ‘defunding the police’
We cannot afford to let the Biden Administration turn Phoenix, now the country’s fifth-largest city, into San Francisco, where defecating on the sidewalk is commonplace and where groups of criminals routinely rob retail stores in plain sight because the police are defunded, and prosecutors are too weak on crime to enforce the law.
Flat tax plan inadvertently hurts public safety
I urge my Republican colleagues in the Legislature to stand with me in upholding the basic Republican principals of law, order, and public safety, and oppose this misguided attempt to defund local police and fire services.
Put politics aside – help police protect our community
This year affords us the opportunity to create a public safety system that meets the needs of our community and keeps our most vulnerable safe.
