Posted on 06/07/2021 1:04:06 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
Dead people will no longer receive a funeral escort from the Asheville Police Department.
Neither will police respond to calls reporting theft under $1,000, fraud, identity theft or simple assaults.
The Asheville Police Dept. blamed the cutback on services as a result of a severe shortage of officers. Since 2020 the department has lost 30 percent of its officers and detectives.
Police Chief David Zack told the local newspaper that delayed response times — for crimes, such as fraud and many thefts under $1,000 — and even more service cuts are likely as APD struggles to fill vacancies that now amount to 30% of the 238 sworn officer positions.
“This is what it looks like when you’re down this much, when you lose 50% of your detectives,” Zack told the three City Council members of the Public Safety Committee June 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at toddstarnes.com ...
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
I wonder if they will respond when the thieves get shot.
Hopefully not.
“I was robbed of a $1001, operator” Gimme de popo”.
Play stupid games...
Thug: How much Benjamins be dat watch?
You: A little under $1,000.
Thug: Gimme dat. Now.
Which neighborhoods do you think affects this the most?
This kind of thing may get leftist media coverage legs for the story. They like this, sometimes.
But then it can shoved in the Dems’ faces for what happens if police are defunded elsewhere. Good stuff.
that sounds as high as Portland or Minneapolis. Was Asheville a center of leftist, BLM, ANTIFA, Rioting in 2020?
I imagine this is a call for any thief outside the area. A simple invitation to steal lots of stuff from cars, yard, sheds etc... If I was planning a vacation to this location.. I’d cancel it immediately. The article points out that the department lost half of the detectives. I can only think that with half the detectives left, the rate of homicides, rapes, aggravated assaults, burglaries, strong arm robberies etc.. will increase with little arrests.
Then there should be a tax reduction for reduced service.
They have a very woke city council that hates the cops so the cops are walking out.
You get what you ask for, BLM. Good luck.
Even the cops don't want to be there.
I would like to ask the mayor, “If something is normally $1500, but it is on sale for $999, is it OK to steal it?”
Depends on the value of what the thief was stealing. 🤡
Yes, Asheville has gone bat**** crazy over the years. One of the wiccan strongholds. We still have family there but I have stopped visiting.
The mayor is a leftist loon who grew up in such conservative communities as Bethesda, Maryland. From what I understand, the city council is no better. Asheville is a liberal-left nutcake in a Sea of Good Red.
Yeh, someone stole my wallet. There was $1001 in it. :D
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