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I got a list of 20 jurisdictions that defunded the police to the tune of over $1 billion total.

Jim Jordan · An interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" · January 29, 2023

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PolitiFact, February 1, 2023 · read the check

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Checked against No agency publishes a list of jurisdictions that cut police budgets or a total of such cuts; the list the speaker cites is his own and was not published with sources a check could read.

The record: Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances

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Topics: Criminal Justice, Public Safety, Race and Ethnicity.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s list of cities that ‘defunded’ police doesn’t account for reversals · PolitiFact · 2023-02-01 · accessed 2026-09-25
  2. Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances · U.S. Census Bureau · accessed 2026-10-15

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