Posted on 10/11/2021 12:41:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DALLAS — The demonstrators came at night, chanting and blowing whistles outside the home of Mayor Eric Johnson, protesting in occasionally personal terms his staunch refusal to cut funding to the Dallas Police Department.
“Defund! Reclaim! Reinvest!” about two dozen people called out from the darkened Dallas street. A few weeks later, the police chief resigned over her handling of large-scale protests. Then the City Council voted to cut how much money the department could use on overtime and hiring new officers.
That was last year.
This year has been very different.
In cities across the U.S., police departments are getting their money back. From New York to Los Angeles, departments that saw their funding targeted amid nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd last year have watched as local leaders voted for increases in police spending, with an additional $200 million allocated to the New York Police Department and a 3% boost given to the Los Angeles force.
The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime in major cities last year, the exodus of officers from departments large and small and political pressures. After slashing police spending last year, Austin, Texas, restored the department’s budget and raised it to new heights. Burlington, Vermont, the city that Sen. Bernie Sanders once led as mayor, went from cutting its police budget to approving $10,000 bonuses for officers to stay on the job.
But perhaps nowhere has the contrast been as stark as in Dallas, where Johnson not only proposed to restore money to the department but also moved to increase the number of officers on the street, writing over the summer that “Dallas needs more police officers.”
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These cities need to keep their police departments small, so no one sane chooses to move there.
I want stupid people in stupid places to hurt from their stupidity.
is this a sleight of hand?
the overall spending wasnt cut. the police money was moved to social programs.
is the restoration of police funding new spending?
voila! they got increase in social programs
Yes, keep an eye on this.
But many of the cops have left the profession, retired, or left for greener pastures where people still appreciate police. And the Soros DAs are still out there aplenty not prosecuting crimes.
Amazing. Yet not a single conservative patriot is surprised that the lack of police caused crime to rise.
The last 12 months have seen the largest increase in Murders in the USA in 100 years!
Most of the extra doesn’t make up for the cuts, and they can’t recruit and retain enough police anyway. The left has succeeded in making major cities anti-police, and I’m not sure that can be fixed.
Most of the extra doesn’t make up for the cuts, and they can’t recruit and retain enough police anyway. The left has succeeded in making major cities anti-police, and I’m not sure that can be undone even if they wanted to undo it.
Most of the extra doesn’t make up for the cuts, and they can’t recruit and retain enough police anyway. The left has succeeded in making major cities anti-police, and I’m not sure that can be undone even if they wanted to undo it.
Doesn’t matter for multiple reasons.
The damage has been done and can’t be undone with money. Very few people who would be good cops are willing to do it now. Hell, I wouldn’t.
It’s more likely now that new wanna be cops are going to be fascist bullies looking for thrills dominating people.
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