Democrats Cry Foul as Hogan Announces $150 Million 'Re-Fund the Police' Initiative
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced a $150 million plan to boost funding for state police and crime response programs on Friday, as Democratic lawmakers slammed him for misleading the public about one of their signature legislative accomplishments and the state of victim services.
Hogan called his initiative “Re-Fund The Police” and denounced calls to divert police funding to other social services as “dangerous, radical, far-left lunacy.”
Hogan said “the reality is that our police are underfunded and under attack.”
“To reverse the tide of rising crime, we need to stop demonizing and sabotaging the dedicated men and women who risk their lives every single day to keep the rest of us safe,” he said, flanked by state law enforcement officers. “We cannot defund the police, we need to re-fund the police.”
The plan “will provide a desperately needed shot in the arm to our state and local police agencies and their critical efforts to stop crime,” Hogan said.
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