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A new report examining police funding trends finds Wisconsin is one of 23 states in which police departments and law enforcement agencies are the "foremost spending priority in municipal budgets." But the report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum found when factoring in county and state-level spending, the proportion of budgets dedicated to police in Wisconsin comes in slightly below the national ave...