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Harold Volkmer: “But I do think you can tighten the purposes up quite a bit more and narrow them quite a bit more than you have done.…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 1995
But I do think you can tighten the purposes up quite a bit more and narrow them quite a bit more than you have done. What we have attempted to do and some of us feel that one of the major items facing this Nation, especially in our major metropolitan areas, is the fact that they cannot afford the police that they need. They cannot afford the police that we need. So you take the police away. You say, ``Well, you can have an option,'' but you reduce the amount that can be used totally from the present law into this, what can be used for police, if every bit of this money in your bill was used for the police.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri
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Discussing police funding challenges in major metropolitan areas.

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