Thank you to my dear friend, @Jesuorobo, for this endorsement. I look forward to working with you even more as our community continues to look for tangible solutions on police reform.pic.twitter.com/L1yH5Ydjvm
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For the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcements in North Texas, use of force is tied to an initiative that has little impact on policing budgets: the Department of Defense 1033 program, which allows local depts to access military-grade weaponry at almost no cost
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That program, which is now part of pending legislation in Congress, has brought nearly $150 million worth of military equipment to Texas, dozens of millions of which has landed in Dallas suburbs. In Congress, I will work to demilitarize the police by winding down this program.
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#TX24, view:https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-police-military-equipment-weapons-11925058 …Show this thread -
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