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What to Know: TPPF has released a new video titled “Proficient Policing: Training Solutions That Unite Communities & Law Enforcement.”

The TPPF Take: TPPF is developing a training model to train officers who can effectively employ other options than force, are confident and secure in their dealings with the public, and are skilled in the appropriate application of force when necessary.

“For too long, police training—particularly in physical skills—has not followed any model that makes sense,” says TPPF’s Randy Petersen. “That must change because it is physical action in the form of force that makes up most of the high profile police action failures we see.”

What to Know: U.S. House Republicans gained seven seats and made real inroads with minority voters. House Democrats are trying to figure out why.

The TPPF Take: In Texas and around the nation, President Trump earned the highest support among non-White voters of any Republican since 1960.

“This portends an ongoing realignment of American politics,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “This realignment, if it deepens and persists, appears to be elevating economic interests at the expense of racial politics, reworking the Republican Party into a party of working Americans — while the Democrats become increasingly identified with the coastal elites and far-left extremist ideology.”

What to Know: Writing in the Wall Street Journal, one California venture capitalist explains why he left for Texas.

The TPPF Take: It’s all about opportunity (and bad tax policy in places like California).

“While most taxpayers in California—and every other state—saw their overall taxes decline as a result of the 2017 tax cut, some wealthy taxpayers in high tax states like New York and California saw a far smaller tax cut or, in a few cases, a tax increase,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “That’s because the federal tax code no longer provides a generous subsidy—through an unlimited state and local tax deductions.”