Political Matrix News: Defunding Police: Impact on Rural Communities

Well, bottom line is if they wanted this thing to pass, they would have done a much better job of fleshing it out and explaining to people how it was going to work.

Because the way that it's set right now, it feels a whole lot like defunding the police.

It does, because that's exactly what it does.

Because that is

exactly what it does.

They actually did a study.

There's probably 72 small municipalities that will have to be dissolved because they live on property.

I'm talking about these small communities that have 5,000 people, 3,000 people, which a lot of people will say, we don't care about them anyway.

Well, the people that live there care about them.

A lot of these areas are in rural counties that just don't have that many people.

So, I mean, like Stark, Florida, or Live Oak, or, you know, I mean...

Levy, I mean, Gilchrist, or Century.

I mean, Century will be crumbled by this.

I mean, there are several rural towns where a lot of people just overlook them because they're fly-by cities or fly-by communities, but the people that live there don't overlook them because they live there.

Fly over, yeah.

Well, bottom line is if they wanted this thing to pass, they would have done a much better job of fleshing it out and explaining to people how it was going to work.

Because the way that it's set right now, it feels a whole lot like defunding the police.

It does, because that's exactly what it does.

Because that is

exactly what it does.

They actually did a study.

There's probably 72 small municipalities that will have to be dissolved because they live on property.

I'm talking about these small communities that have 5,000 people, 3,000 people, which a lot of people will say, we don't care about them anyway.

Well, the people that live there care about them.

A lot of these areas are in rural counties that just don't have that many people.

So, I mean, like Stark, Florida, or Live Oak, or, you know, I mean...

Levy, I mean, Gilchrist, or Century.

I mean, Century will be crumbled by this.

I mean, there are several rural towns where a lot of people just overlook them because they're fly-by cities or fly-by communities, but the people that live there don't overlook them because they live there.

Fly over, yeah.