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Police arrest protesters during pro-Palestinian demonstrations at The City College Of New York (CUNY) as the NYPD cracks down on protest camps at both Columbia University and CCNY on April 30, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"It exposes a contradiction" on campus

Chauncey DeVega
New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What gets lost in the campus protests

Chauncey DeVega
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) holds up the book The End of Policing while questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Cruz vs. "defund the police"

Chauncey DeVega
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Cruz's troll of KBJ backfires

Timothy Evans - Raw Story
Demonstrators hold placards saying 'Defund The Police' during the protest. (John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

After the protests, police budgets cut

Igor Derysh
Demonstrators hold placards saying 'Defund The Police' during the protest. (John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Defunding police: How it would work

Igor Derysh
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