Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In many cities (including Chicago) the public schools are a separate fiscal entity from the city, which is why police end up looking like such a large share of the local spend. — PolitiTweet.org

@mattyglesias Almost 40% of Chicago's budget goes to CPD.

Posted June 17, 2020 Hibernated

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Tens of thousands of likes for this ... police are 4% of state/local spending and way less than that of federal. Getting people to believe the police are *the* thing standing between America and social democracy has to be a Koch Brothers psyop. — PolitiTweet.org

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Consequently a statement like “Chicago spends eleventy zillion more dollars on cops than on youth services” ends up being true because the main services provided to Chicago youth are provided by the public school system on a separate budget. But aggregate ed$ > cop$ everywhere. — PolitiTweet.org

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