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Cori Bush: “Criminalization, simply put, is not an effective public safety policy.”

On the recordMarch 10, 2021
Criminalization, simply put, is not an effective public safety policy.
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Cori Bush
Democratic · Missouri

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Critiques drug possession laws as ineffective for public safety.

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