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The 2020-era defund the police movement is echoing across the nation yet again as Democratic lawmakers and activists decry the Trump administration’s efforts to snuff out crime in cities such as Washington, D.C., while readying similar efforts in jurisdictions long notorious for violent crimes.

Democrats in blue strongholds such as Chicago and Baltimore have bucked President Donald Trump‘s plans to send in National Guard troops to help deter crime, including calling plans to incarcerate criminals a lost cause that would not lead to a more peaceful community.

Fox News Digital spoke with Crime Prevention Research Center founder John Lott, who said resistance to Trump’s anti-crime blitz echoes the defund the police movement, since both narratives

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