Posted on 04/30/2021 4:58:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
City officials in St. Louis, Missouri, are moving forward with a plan to cut $4 million from the police budget and remove 98 vacant officer jobs.
The local Board of Estimate and Apportionment voted 2-1 in favor of the spending plan, which pledges to remove $4 million from the $171 million police budget and reallocate that money to social services, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The plan, according to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, is intended to “address the root causes of crime and support the victims of crime as well as those who have been underserved and underrepresented.”
The plan cuts 98 vacant police jobs, including six lieutenants, 25 sergeants, and 67 police officers, which the mayor says have been vacant for 12 years.
Several groups have criticized the move, citing the amount of violent crime in the city, including a group of black police officers that argued the police department is already stretched too thin.
“St. Louis City has a ‘right now problem’ relative to violent crime, so any measure that does not include adequate police staffing is misguided,” the Ethical Society of Police said about the plan. “The imbalance between the number of calls for service in the busiest districts to the number of officers assigned leaves little time for proactive patrols and community building.”
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Well, I hope that goes badly for them.
Sue this Mayor for every crime committed , I didn’t have to look her up ,her first name said everything
This is great news!
The death and destruction party.
Get
Out
“Hey, your car is on fire!”
“Here, put it out with this gasoline!”
“Gee, I sure didn’t expect that result. What went wrong?”
It’s always good to know what cities to bypass.
Obviously a ploy to avoid hiring Black police officers to right historic inequities. She be actin' white.
More armed citizens means you need less police.
In the future don’t elect someone who hates your guts.
Make it so. It’s going to have to get worse before it can get better. Sadly there will be casualties.
“Tishaura”? Huh? Oh, yeah - I forgot:
https://www.behindthename.com/random/
Check it out. Examples -
Tenda-i
N’Kechi
Dads - don’t forget those apostrophes and hyphens! Dads?
(Oh, yeah forgot - LBJ ran ‘em all off. Sorry.)
Excellent news.
Well...St. Louisans have a death wish. They’re totally into that self-destructive thing.
The root cause of crime is criminals.🤔
My god, what the hell is St. Louis thinking?
On the other hand, here is a prime opportunity for St. Louis to show the rest of us that fewer police IS the way to go..I sincerely wish them the best. The "Show Me State" can now be a showcase!! &^)
The plan cuts 98 vacant police jobs, including six lieutenants, 25 sergeants, and 67 police officers, which the mayor says have been vacant for 12 years.
That is a hell of a lot of jobs to keep vacant for 12 years.
Fantastic idea, now the denizens of St. Louis can take personal responsibility for their own wellbeing. The remaining police can take advanced classes in chalk outline drawings.
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