Posted on 07/20/2021 5:35:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death in 2020, Black Lives Matter, antifa and other Marxist organizations demanded law enforcement agencies be defunded. In an astonishing display of progressive Democrat solidarity, scores of mayors, city councils and county boards of supervisors in cities and counties across our country capitulated to the far left's demands and sided with rioters, looters, anarchists and arsonists in destroying American cities.
The places most affected by the "defund the police" movement include Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, New York and Minneapolis. As law enforcement budgets in these cities were being cut and experienced officers retired and resigned, the obvious happened: Crime skyrocketed. Worse yet, the people most adversely affected are minority citizens -- the very people BLM and other radical groups claim need protection not by the police but from the police.
The toll on Black Americans is staggering. In 2020, the percentage of Black murder victims in Chicago was over 70%. After the police budget was cut, that percentage rose to more than 80%. At the same time in Milwaukee, the percentage of Black murder victims rose from about 60% to nearly 90%. Other "defund the cops" jurisdictions across America have suffered similar results.
Only the ideologically blinded were surprised by the rapid upswing in violent crime resulting from defunding the police. To paraphrase a comment from Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in Federalist No. 51: If men were angels, police wouldn't be necessary.
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death in 2020, Black Lives Matter, antifa and other Marxist organizations demanded law enforcement agencies be defunded. In an astonishing display of progressive Democrat solidarity, scores of mayors, city councils and county boards of supervisors in cities and counties across our country capitulated to the far left's demands and sided with rioters, looters, anarchists and arsonists in destroying American cities.
The places most affected by the "defund the police" movement include Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, New York and Minneapolis. As law enforcement budgets in these cities were being cut and experienced officers retired and resigned, the obvious happened: Crime skyrocketed. Worse yet, the people most adversely affected are minority citizens -- the very people BLM and other radical groups claim need protection not by the police but from the police.
The toll on Black Americans is staggering. In 2020, the percentage of Black murder victims in Chicago was over 70%. After the police budget was cut, that percentage rose to more than 80%. At the same time in Milwaukee, the percentage of Black murder victims rose from about 60% to nearly 90%. Other "defund the cops" jurisdictions across America have suffered similar results.
Only the ideologically blinded were surprised by the rapid upswing in violent crime resulting from defunding the police. To paraphrase a comment from Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in Federalist No. 51: If men were angels, police wouldn't be necessary.
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death in 2020, Black Lives Matter, antifa and other Marxist organizations demanded law enforcement agencies be defunded. In an astonishing display of progressive Democrat solidarity, scores of mayors, city councils and county boards of supervisors in cities and counties across our country capitulated to the far left's demands and sided with rioters, looters, anarchists and arsonists in destroying American cities.
The places most affected by the "defund the police" movement include Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, New York and Minneapolis. As law enforcement budgets in these cities were being cut and experienced officers retired and resigned, the obvious happened: Crime skyrocketed. Worse yet, the people most adversely affected are minority citizens -- the very people BLM and other radical groups claim need protection not by the police but from the police.
The toll on Black Americans is staggering. In 2020, the percentage of Black murder victims in Chicago was over 70%. After the police budget was cut, that percentage rose to more than 80%. At the same time in Milwaukee, the percentage of Black murder victims rose from about 60% to nearly 90%. Other "defund the cops" jurisdictions across America have suffered similar results.
Only the ideologically blinded were surprised by the rapid upswing in violent crime resulting from defunding the police. To paraphrase a comment from Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in Federalist No. 51: If men were angels, police wouldn't be necessary.
When you have the MSM in your hip pocket, and you can do or say anything without punishment, of course you are going to lie to the citizens.
Why is this repeated 3 times?
Very confusing...
Baltimore has had exactly one elected Republican at any level since WWII yet those morons actually blamed Republicans for the increase in crime.
as well as not the same as the title, nothing about Republicans
This makes perfect sense.
They are going to create massive suffering and assign the blame to their enemy. I have no doubt that the grieving mothers in Chicago will be blaming Republicans and are, already.
This is the counter to Trump’s prosperity. It is much cheaper and easier to assure.
Last Sunday, he said the police should be doubled in size and they should be allowed to shoot first before the perps shoot at them. When I reminded him it was his party exclusively that was demonizing Law Enforcement, he replied "the Republicans do it too!!"
But wait there was that one small town in East Bumf**k where cutting police reduced crime.
The Republicans should have posters made with Obama’s picture saying , Defund the Police Started Here
The victims of “defund the police” and cowing the police into inaction for the most part don’t pay for police - so I’m OK with their high murder rate. If they cared, they’d get jobs and pay for police...
Right. It was always the plan of the Left. Excellent reference you made to the playbook——
(Such a disgusting line from that POS:)
Saul Alinsky stated
“The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.”
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