Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Memphis-Shelby Public Schools has a $1.93 billion budget. The problem with those cops is they murdered a guy!!!!! It’s not a budget issue. https://t.co/9M2qBOl36p — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This stuff is so misleading, it always turns out to be that the reason City X spends more on policing than anything else is that the school district is a separate fiscal entity. — PolitiTweet.org

The Memphis police unit that fatally beat Tyre Nichols was part of a “special operations” division that receives $2… https://t.co/NyqyrsOgXC

Posted Feb. 2, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

America just doesn’t spend that much on policing — it’s average budgets by OECD standards dealing with a much more objectively violent environment thanks to the guns. The problem with misconduct is the misconduct, the budgets are banal. https://t.co/Zs7N95KajF https://t.co/aMd0P3HMP5 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2023