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SENATORS AND MAYORS CALL FOR MORE LAW ENFORCEMENT FUNDING IN WASHINGTON

Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch calls for federal funding to be diverted from the Iraq War and appropriated to local law enforcement at a press conference at Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 26, 2007. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. Glenn)

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