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Charles Barkley made some news during his appearance on Inside the NBA last night. There are two clips here, the first of which is Barkley talking about the slogan “defund police.” Charles Barkley: “You know, I hear these fools on TV talking about ‘defund the police’ and things like that. So that notion they keep saying that … I’m like, wait a minute. Who are Black people supposed to call — Ghostbusters? When we have crime in our neighborhoods?” pic.twitter.com/RXvrelILxJ— Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) September 25, 2020 He’s absolutely right and I suspect there are a significant number of black...

Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Tuesday said more police officers on the streets won’t make communities safer.She also agreed with the claim that America was founded on “racism, sexism and other evils.” “It is outdated, it is wrong-headed thinking to think that the only way you’re gonna get communities to be safe is to put more police officers on the street,” Harris said. “What we have to do and what we will do is reimagine public safety.”Kamala Harris made these statements on Tuesday during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan as Sleepy Joe napped all day in...

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memo ordering federal agencies to defund “anarchist jurisdictions” including New York City, Seattle and Portland.The New York Post reported: President Trump is ordering the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City and three other cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime, The Post can exclusively reveal.Trump on Wednesday signed a five-page memo ordering all federal agencies to send reports to the White House Office of Management and Budget that detail funds that can be redirected. New York City, Washington, DC, Seattle and...

A little less than a week ago, blue Austin made itself a laughingstock across the rest of Texas. The all-Democrat city council and its left-wing Mayor Steve Adler voted unanimously to chop $150 million out of the city’s $434 million dollar budget. That’s a cut of one-third. Austin did this as the WSJ revealed that the fast-growing city of about a million leads the nation in the percentage increase of homicides in 2020. Yes, its rate of increase is worse even than New York and Chicago. Austin recently billed itself as safe. It can no longer honestly say that it...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal on Tuesday to amend the city’s charter — which will be presented to voters on November 3 via ballot — to remove $880 million from law enforcement and “reinvest” the money in “direct community investment” and “alternatives to incarceration.” Titled, “Reimagining L.A. County: Shifting Budget Priorities to Revitalize Under-resourced and Low-income Communities,” the proposal includes language frequently used by Democrat politicians and the broader left. It alleges the existence of “systemic discrimination, exclusion, and inequity” targeting blacks and yielding “racial injustice” and “racial inequity.”

You would think after the insanity that was CHAZ/CHOP, Seattle might have taken a hard look at their relationship with law and order. You would be wrong. Seattle is in King County, and the County Executive’s Office is moving ahead with plans to “abolish prisons.” A leaked email published by Christopher F. Rufo, contributing editor at City Journal, shows active plans to reduce both adult and juvenile detention and close the county jail in Seattle. The juvenile detention center would be converted to house other programs by 2025. According to Rufo, this plan will eliminate 60% of the county’s jail...

After the latest rounds of protests and riots broke out, elected officials in many major cities rushed to try to be the first ones to “out-woke” the rest by allowing massive “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the Police” murals to be painted on their municipal streets. One showed up almost immediately outside of Trump Tower in the Big Apple, with the Mayor promising five more to “decorate” every borough of Gotham. The fact that this was all being done by executive decree rather than having the City Council amend the appropriate codes and order the requisite permits to be...

This is an item in the current presidential election food fights that’s been simmering since early last month and it once again popped up in a number of media outlets this week. Has Joe Biden endorsed the idea of “defunding the police” during this campaign? The mainstream media has been doing backflips recently, trying to claim that Joe has never said this. CNN’s “Facts First” fact-checker jumps through so many hoops to try to make this point that they should be entered in the Westminster Dog Show. The Washington Post ran with a claim that a Trump campaign advertisement...

Since the death of George Floyd, Democrats have pushed this notion of "defunding the police." They have worked overtime to make sure Americans know "defunding" doesn't mean abolishing law enforcement agencies in their entirety. In their eyes, it's about shifting funds from police departments to other necessary services, like education and social workers. For whatever reason, the mainstream media is making the argument that Biden is not in favor of defunding the police. By Democrats' own standards and definitions, he is in favor of defunding the police and reallocating funds that would otherwise go towards police departments to other services....

Fed up with Defund the Police? Worried that hordes of “peaceful protestors” might soon show up to burn and pillage your neighborhood? Want to make your views known but unsure where to begin? Here’s a way to hit back: DEFUND THE UNIVERSITIES. It’s no secret that much of the radical ideology fueling the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots are the product of our dysfunctional higher educational system. Universities today are almost 100% hard left-wing bubbles, openly hostile to any conservative thought. They are intolerant of opposing opinions, the very opposite of the kind of dialogue intended for higher education,...

Flyers are circulating among New York City police officers calling for a “strike” on July 4 in order to give people a taste of what a world without police would be like. This follows comments from Governor Andrew Cuomo on NPR on Monday where he said if people don’t want the police force, “they shouldn’t have it.”It looks like at least some NYPD officers want to take the governor at his word.New York Post: A pair of flyers making their rounds among NYPD officers are encouraging them to call out sick July 4th — as retribution for police reform and...

Many on left are calling for the defunding of police in the wake of George Floyd’s death, but Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, says that is not the answer. On Sunday, he told Fox News’ Arthel Neville that police officers can do their jobs “and still maintain respect for others.” “What I would like is for all police around America to get their jobs and do them the right way, the correct way,” Philonise Floyd said on America’s News HQ. “Innocent people shouldn’t have to die.”“You can do your job and still maintain respect for others,” Floyd added.Benjamin...

77% of truck drivers say they will not deliver to far left cities with defunded police departments. Nor should they. Truck driving is a dangerous profession. Far left mayors and violent rioters make it deadly.Here’s a scene from a “peaceful protest” last week that did not end well for the trucker. CLICK ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO The mob yanked him from his cab and beat him senseless. Truck driver dragged out of his vehicle into the road and attacked by a mob of savages in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/yLxkqZ0cba— Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 1, 2020 Via CD Life: As...

The same movement that produced widespread looting, arson, cop-killing and vandalism last week is now calling on politicians to defund the police this week. Apparently, the police are really cramping these people's style. In what was left of Minneapolis, a mob of protesters pulled the progressive mayor out of his home over the weekend and demanded to know, yes or no, whether the mayor would support defunding the police. "We don't want no mo police," the speaker shouted through a megaphone. When the mayor answered no, the crowd yelled obscenities, flipped the mayor the bird, and told the community-organizing mayor...

Is CNN trying to pave the way for the abolishment of the Minneapolis Police Department? One might get that idea looking at a story that they tossed out today. In it, they discuss whether or not such a plan is feasible and dig up a couple of examples of “cities” that have done the same thing in the past, with an eye toward how things worked out in the aftermath. I found this story to be particularly ripe for a closer look by yours truly because I’ve lived quite close to and visited both of them. I even worked...

Major union leaders in Los Angeles County Monday pledged their support to the Black Lives Matter agenda working toward defunding the Los Angeles Police Department and redirecting those funds to community organizations. Leaders from United Teachers Los Angeles, Service Employees International Union and others came out to a peaceful protest in front of City Hall calling for an end to systemic racism. “It’s really just bound to ideologies that all of America operates on, ideologies that have been inherited from generation after generation, ideologies that tell one group of people that they are more dominant and in a position of...

Republican attorneys general across the country are pushing back on calls to defund law enforcement agencies in the wake of the protests over police brutality and racial injustice – arguing that cutting budgets to police departments would be “extremely dangerous and reckless.” Police departments have recently come under renewed scrutiny following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd’s death, along with that of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., fueled nationwide protests and elevated calls among some activists and demonstrators to defund the...

Kamala Harris is the latest Democrat to applaud efforts to defund the police. After Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced he would cut $150 million from the city’s police budget – despite California Governor Gavin Newsom’s need to deploy the National Guard to help curb violence and looting in LA – Harris went on GMA this morning and said, “I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done.”Kamala applauds these efforts.CLICK ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO It’s no surprise Harris would embrace defunding the police. Not only does Harris think it’s “wrong” that “police equals more safety,” Harris wants...

The “mostly peaceful” leftist rioters in Chicago dragged police officers through the street and kicked them in the head last week.The far left rioters and looters made Chicago’s Magnificent Mile look like Chicago’s Boarded Up Mile. CLICK ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO By last weekend the left was calling to defund the police in several US cities.This past weekend Chicago suffered its most violent weekend of the year. 84TRENDING: Wow! Minneapolis City Council President Says Calling the Police on Burglars "Comes from a Place of Privilege" (VIDEO) The Sun-Times reported: Twenty-four people were killed and at least 61 others...

By now, you have probably heard that the Minneapolis City Council plans to completely disband the Minneapolis Police Department, and other major cities are considering significant cuts to the funding that their police departments receive. Needless to say, such moves will only make our streets even more unsafe, but a lot of people out there are so upset about police brutality that they are ready to support such drastic measures. In the aftermath of 9/11, police departments all over the country were heavily militarized, and thousands of troops returning from our wars overseas were hired as officers. This shift in...