Police defunded: Major cities
feeling the loss of police
funding as murders, other
crimes soar
Fox News,
by
Stephanie Pagones
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
4/1/2021 3:46:19 PM
Cities in parts of the U.S. that slashed their police department funding last year, in part as a result of police-involved shootings, have seen an uptick in certain crimes over the past year, according to data analyzed by Fox News. Cities such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas, have shifted funds from police departments to social services programs. Such cuts have led some departments to lay off officers, cancel recruiting classes or retreat from hiring goals.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 4/1/2021 3:50:27 PM (No. 741918)
Diamond in the back
sunroof top
diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean
Gangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the back
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/1/2021 3:51:44 PM (No. 741919)
Certainly won’t bring in the tourists or new businesses
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 4/1/2021 4:01:56 PM (No. 741923)
Channeling my inner US Marshall Tommy Lee Jones: "I don't care." I don't go to big cities, and the inhabitants have brought this on themselves.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JonR 4/1/2021 4:07:10 PM (No. 741925)
Nothing in recent memory could have been more stupid than defunding the police! Perhaps voting for Biden is as equally stupid but that is another discussion!
Any politician or individual who advocated for this incredibly insane idea, is unhinged and disconnected from reality! Treat them accordingly!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 4/1/2021 4:17:52 PM (No. 741929)
Wanna have some fun? Go over to https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/ and have a blast!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 4/1/2021 4:38:46 PM (No. 741943)
Seemed to me from the start of the demented "defund the police" movement, that getting crime rates to soar was precisely the intent behind the campaign.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
vwlarry 4/1/2021 4:39:28 PM (No. 741947)
Everything is spinning out of control.
EVERYTHING.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Daisymay 4/1/2021 4:39:59 PM (No. 741948)
When the Residents (who voted for this great idea) have had enough Rape, Robbery, Murder and maybe even Home Invasions in their own communities, they will beg for MORE police. THAT'S When the Police demand a RAISE! Having to go and get rid of the Vermin running wild, those Officers deserve the same pay as those who go into High Risk Areas!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 4/1/2021 4:45:55 PM (No. 741953)
We don't need to train troops in simulated cities for combat training, just send them to any major city run by demosluts, and get started shooting.
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Maybe the politicians should be held responsible. April's a good month to start a recall. But when the people do nothing, Nothing happens.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/1/2021 4:51:23 PM (No. 741958)
Yeah, so how's them 'social services' personnel workin' out for ya's?
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Who could possibly have foreseen this? /s
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/1/2021 5:15:20 PM (No. 741976)
check this out from Murderapolis..
CrimeWatchMpls site
haven't seen it in the local NonMedia
The New Black Panthers held a media event in front of Osseo Gun Club, apparently earlier today.
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1377723115644596231
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/1/2021 5:55:24 PM (No. 741991)
Wouldn't 'violence prevention' be considered racist genocide?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/1/2021 6:09:34 PM (No. 742002)
Yet there is always a cop right on the scene if an honest citizen pulls out a firearm to defend himself. What's up with that?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/1/2021 6:13:07 PM (No. 742005)
Who would have thunk that defunding the nasty police would bring a crime disaster to those fine leftist and liberal Democrat cities?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SALady 4/1/2021 6:34:13 PM (No. 742019)
About 20 years ago, there was a renaissance in East Austin. That is the historically black part of town. It became a very trendy area, where people would go to eat and shop. It was a boom for their economy. It was pretty interesting to see how what was once a run down "ghetto" could become a thriving part of town again.
But once the police were defunded, and BLM and Antifa were allowed to attack white people with impunity, I wouldn't get caught dead in that part of town now (mainly because I fear the "dead" part of that sentence).
The last thing any part of any city needed during the economic hit of the pandemic over-reaction by our city government was for them to defund the police and give the criminals and racist BLM and Antifa thugs carte blanche to riot and destroy!!! But with an uber-lie-beral city government like Austin, what else could you expect?!?!?!?!?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 4/1/2021 6:39:05 PM (No. 742020)
Being reality based is just another old white man trick designed to keep the black man down.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/1/2021 6:41:35 PM (No. 742021)
Let me think this through.
Less police. The ones that are left are subject to being charged with MURDER.
The ones that don't get charged may after 15 years of their lives on the job may find themselves and their families unemployed without a pension.
CALL 911
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/1/2021 6:45:08 PM (No. 742025)
Great idea, #9! Two birds with one stone.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/1/2021 6:51:08 PM (No. 742028)
They don't have to defund the police - keep charging them with murder after some punk pulls a gun and gets shot, and the smart ones will retire or move to more police-friendly venues (if they can). The rest will go for desk duty, close their eyes to crimes in progress, keep their heads down, their guns holstered, and hide out until they can move on one way or another.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/1/2021 7:17:01 PM (No. 742047)
FTA:Total violent crime in Minneapolis between July 22, 2020, and March 28 was also up 22% year-over-year – 3,692 this year compared to the 3,025 last year
And it's worth noting that many liberals are refusing to report crimes to the police because they fear being 'unwoke'. So the number of crimes is actually much higher.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 4/1/2021 7:31:39 PM (No. 742058)
Gosh and golly!
Who could have imagined that this would happen?
/s off
How about any person with a functioning brain? LOL!
Of course that leaves out the morons and fools in charge of a lot of Dem cities.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
dst4life 4/1/2021 7:36:56 PM (No. 742065)
#7, and that's the plan of Satan, his Deep State cooperators, and his Demoncrat cooperators. This is all just getting started. The internment camps are coming.
As the Greek moralist Plutarch said, a society that becomes libertine is in its next to last stage before its final descent into tyranny. We're there now.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/1/2021 7:59:00 PM (No. 742078)
My city the 8th largest increased its funding for police, no increased crime here, go figure?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Pepperpot59 4/1/2021 9:05:49 PM (No. 742104)
Duh!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
hershey 4/1/2021 9:07:34 PM (No. 742106)
Ya gets what ya votes fer dude....kick them wankers out next cycle...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/1/2021 9:31:50 PM (No. 742131)
We be dressed cool .
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Tennman 4/1/2021 10:10:33 PM (No. 742150)
More proof of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". How's the social worker intervention working?
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You reap what you sow.
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