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"The city of St. Louis is moving toward axing nearly 100 police officer positions and cutting millions from the police department's budget. The movement to defund the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was lauded by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who called the decision "historic," despite the city being one of the most violent per capita in the world."


With Planned Parenthood losing for four years White Progressives have to make up for the lack of Black people dying as much. Now it's twofold, PP and less cops equal more needless Black deaths. Why don't Peloser and Schemer cry out with their usual "there will be deaths" narratives.

Quote:While many cities across the country are cowering to leftist demands to defund the police, Sacramento is going the other direction, allocating more money to the men and women in blue than ever before.

The annual budget was presented by Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan, reports Fox News, and is set to take effect on July 1st with the beginning of the next fiscal year.

Included within is the police budget, which has been set at $165.8 million. According to Fox News, this is a $9.4 million increase from last year.

The budget allocates $1.6 million to hiring "five new officers and necessary equipment, such as body cameras", as well as $1.5 million for "IT infrastructures such as data storage, software and backup solutions", and $880,740 for "less than lethal equipment."

Many are unhappy about the proposed increase, stating that it goes against statements made by officials last year wherein they discussed moving away from reliance on the police.

The budget still needs to be approved by City Council, and some are already coming out and saying they will vote against it. According to the Sacramento Bee, Councilwoman Katie Valenzuela justified her decision to vote no, saying "To put more money into law enforcement when we’ve said as a city we want to move in another direction, it doesn’t line up."

The Bee goes on to detail that the "other direction" involves the Department of Community Response. The DCR is the creation of Mayor Darrell Steinberg, and "will respond to some 911 calls involving mental health issues, homelessness and domestic violence, shifting response to those calls away from police."

Steinberg stated that "it will result in at least $10 million being redirected away from the police department over two years", but that it "doesn’t necessarily mean the police budget won’t keep increasing." According to The Bee, Steinberg is "not for defunding", calling the police "part of running a city."

The DCR is set to receive $5.8 million in funding if the budget is passed.

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12 Shot During Weekend in Democrat-Controlled Atlanta


45 People Shot During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

Quote:Chinese Communist Party-run media outlets are making the case to “abolish policing” in the United States, capitalizing on the far-left’s new and radical, Marxist talking points.
The American left has been all-too-willing, like during the Cold War, to promote the goals of a foreign and hostile power. This time, it’s the Chinese Communist Party.

The April 30th op-ed – “Police violence won’t end until we commit to public safety” – also relies on a popular left-wing argument for ditching the institution: the practice developed from slave patrols and is, therefore, inherently racist.

“Not until policing is seen for what it is, a tool to maintain an unequal social order and not an institution sworn and committed to public safety, can we begin to get solutions that move us in the direction of justice,” the op-ed in China Global Television Network (CGTN) posits.

Penned by Ray Baker, an Adjunct Professor at Towson University, the piece conflates police officers to slave patrols, both of which “fulfilled dual capitalist aims.” Baker continues, infusing the “slave patrol” narrative with a Marxist focus on “worker solidarity”:

It’s important to remember the origins of modern United States policing. Many American observers make the connection between police and slave patrols. What’s sometimes missing in this observation is the function of slave patrol as a labor and social hierarchy question. Those who claimed humans as property were incentivized to ensure those humans would not flee. This created a job for overseeing and policing enslaved workers. Who better to fill that job than white workers who couldn’t sell their labor for fair wages because enslaved labor depressed wages. This creates a labor force of workers whose job it is to ensure enslaved workers produce at unprecedented levels and never take flight. Perfect for oligarchs committed to fracturing any potential of worker solidarity.

“To demand accountability and justice from policing would be to abolish policing as we know it,” the CTGN article ultimately concludes.

Another example of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to inflame racial tensions in the U.S., the piece cautions that “the lesson to white Americans must be that your whiteness will not save you” before detailing society’s “pervasive anti-Blackness”:

Black Americans being disproportionately the victims of police violence is reflective of the continued belief that Black Americans are others, behaving outside the norm of the social order. This pervasive anti-Blackness in law enforcement is sustained regardless of the race or ethnicity of the officers. This is because officers of all ethnic, gender and religious backgrounds are dedicated to maintaining social order. The violence against Black Americans that comes from maintaining social order is par for the course.

Anti-Western influence operations are on the rise, from China

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Quote:A group of House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Presley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), are asking House appropriators to defund a police program in order to help criminal illegal aliens evade deportation from the United States.

The 31 House Democrats, led by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), have sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 287(g) program be defunded.

The 287(g) program allows local law enforcement agencies to sign agreements with ICE to seamlessly identify criminal illegal aliens and turn them over to federal agents for arrest and deportation.

The program is highly effective. In January, for example, local police in Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and South Carolina successfully helped turn criminal illegal aliens over to ICE agents.

Some of the criminal illegal aliens arrested by local police and subsequently turned over to ICE agents included those charged with drug trafficking, child rape, domestic violence, carrying a firearm without a license, aggravated assault, and felony embezzlement.

The group of House Democrats, though, write that the 287(g) program ought to be defunded, claiming it “degrades community trust in local law enforcement…”

“As you begin to craft the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill, we write to ask you to eliminate funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s 287(g) program,” the House Democrats wrote to House appropriators:

We are pleased that the 287(g) program did not receive any significant increases in funding from FY 2017 to FY 2020. However, with the lack of oversight, no clearly defined strategy for the 287(g) program, and a continued degradation in public trust of local law enforcement, it would be irresponsible for the federal government to continue funding this program. As such, we ask that all funding for the 287(g) program be zeroed out for FY 2022. [Emphasis added]

Defunding of 287(g) agreements would likely mean that law enforcement agencies in 26 states — including the Department of Corrections in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Massachusetts — would be kicked off the program, making it increasingly difficult to cooperate with ICE, even when the most violent criminal illegal aliens are arrested.

The effort is only the latest by Democrats to eliminate ICE’s 287(g) program.

Last month, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with a handful of House Democrats, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asking him to end the program.

Already, Mayorkas is preventing law enforcement agencies from turning over most criminal illegal aliens to ICE agents after they are arrested on local charges. With a series of “sanctuary country” orders, ICE agents are only allowed to arrest and deport illegal aliens who are recently-convicted aggravated felons, terrorists, or known gang members.

As a result, this has likely allowed thousands of criminal illegal aliens to be released into American communities who would have otherwise been deported, one report states. Those illegal aliens include sex offenders.

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Dems once again showing their true colors. Prioritizing foreigners/ illegals over US citizens.

Quote:The mayor of San Francisco announced Wednesday that $3.75 million will be taken from the city’s police and sheriff’s office budget to go to help black organizations.

Mayor London Breed issued a statement about the Dream Keeper Initiative that will fund “nonprofits that serve the black community.”

“Across this country, and in our city, we’ve seen how the black community’s economic growth and prosperity has historically been disrupted and marginalized,” Breed said in the statement. “We have invested our resources in a way that lifts up and supports African American small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the entire community.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the development:

As part of the initiative, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development awarded funds to 17 black-serving community organizations to provide services for African American businesses, entrepreneurs, and their communities in San Francisco.

Organizations awarded the funds include the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco Housing Development Corporation, and the Children’s Council of San Francisco.

The funds will be used to provide economic relief from the pandemic; help start, stabilize, or grow existing Black businesses by offering consultations and legal guidance; and support African American cultural preservation events. Funds will also be used to establish community hubs that stimulate cultural and business development and provide education and resources in historically African American neighborhoods such as Bayview-Hunters Point, Fillmore/Western Addition, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley.

“This funding represents an investment in the community and addressing the wealth and opportunity gaps created by years of biased policies and approaches,” Sheryl Davis, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, said in a statement.

“There is tremendous talent and potential that has been stifled by our biased policies and strategies,” Davis said.

Neither the report nor the statements explained what portion of law enforcement’s budget would be affected by the cuts.

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Quote:The police department in the Democrat-run city of Chicago is so under-staffed detectives are being told to put on a uniform and go sit on a salt truck.

Yes, you read that correctly, plain-clothes detectives who are trained and paid to investigate crimes like homicide are being ordered to put on a uniform and “sit in a fixed position or on a street corner, sometimes with a ‘city asset’ such as a salt truck[.]”

The “memo” in question was obtained by CWBChicago and lays out just how bad things have gotten under Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot and David Brown, who was installed as Chicago Police Department Superintendent in April of 2020.

Obviously, a lot’s happened since April of 2020, namely the 1619 Riots launched by the domestic terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa. All around the county we—Sorry, allow me to back up a bit… In Democrat-run cities all around the country we have seen countless examples of the quislings who run these cities doing everything in their power to prove their fealty to the terrorists while at the same undermining their own police force.

To prove their fealty, many Democrat-run cities have given into the terrorists’ demands by drastically reducing police budgets.

To prove their fealty, many Democrat-run cities refuse to prosecute the terrorists, which not only keeps the terrorists on the streets to terrorize, but is a backdoor legalization of looting, arson, and other forms of mob action. Naturally, this only encourages more.

Most of all, though, pretty much every major city run by Democrats (including Lightfoot’s) has bludgeoned police morale with anti-police rhetoric that ensures police officers will be terrified to do their job, especially if it requires some kind of physical force. This not only puts the city and its citizens at risk, it puts officers at risk of either not acting to protect their own lives or doing so and becoming the American left’s next mob victim.

The Chicago PD numbers speak for themselves [emphasis mine]:

Since Brown joined CPD, 19 of the department’s 22 police districts — including all of its most violent — have lost at least 12% of their cops, according to records provided by Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General.

The reduction in beat-level cops is partly the result of CPD losing 5% of officers over the past year to retirements and younger officers leaving for other opportunities, city records show. Another 1,000 cops who used to report to work in neighborhoods have been transferred to new citywide units that Brown created to handle hotspots and participate in community relations activities like shoveling snow and filling potholes.

Yes, that’s correct, this moron has his police officers shoveling snow and filling potholes. Can you imagine?

Would you want to be a Chicago police officer if you were forced to shovel snow and fill potholes? Especially it if was just for show?

Having your police officers fill potholes does nothing for community relations (other than undermine their authority) and everything to undermine police morale. The results…

The Gresham District, third-worst in the city for homicides last year, has lost 25% of its beat cops under Brown. The second-worst and worst districts for murder last year, Englewood and Harrison, have both lost 22% of their front-line cops, the data shows.

On the North Side, CPD’s Lakeview-based Town Hall district has shed 16% of its officers under Brown, leaving it with a total force of 327 officers. That’s among the lowest numbers recorded since CWBChicago began tracking Town Hall’s police headcount in 2013.

On top of staffing levels decimated by nearly a quarter, CWBChicago reports staffing is “even worse than the numbers appear. CPD brass continues to send units away from neighborhood patrol to sit on Michigan Avenue, State Street, and other downtown locations to maintain visibility since last year’s looting.”

Things are so bad, non-violent crimes, like coming home to a house emptied by burglars, are now reported over the phone. No one comes out to take a look and file the report. Oh, and the phone number you’re supposed to call is no longer 24/7, it closes down overnight, so you’re encouraged to drive to a local precinct to file your report.

Finally, there is this madness:

On Wednesday, some detective supervisors were informed of “a new anti-violence initiative” that the department is rolling out: All five of CPD’s detective divisions will assign eight detectives to work in uniform as an “incident response team” on morning and evening shifts, the email said.

According to the message, the response teams “will be activated anytime a district has multiple shooting incidents or whatever other criteria is decided.”

But the detectives won’t be going to the scene to investigate the shootings. Instead, they will be assigned to sit in a fixed position or on a street corner, sometimes with a “city asset” such as a salt truck or CTA supervisor, the memo said.

Can you imagine what this is doing to the morale of these detective squads? These men and women spend years working their way up to detective and now they’re being pulled off the job, told to put on a uniform, and go sit on a salt truck.

This is what a failed city looks like… A city that is so poorly managed and governed, panicky fingers are being thrust into non-stop leaks.

The problems in Chicago are only going to get worse – the violence problems as well as the police staffing problems. Chicago can’t fix its streets and can’t keep you safe… This is a once great city in a death spiral.

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Quote:In a decisive departure from his position last summer, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will deploy additional New York Police Department officers to the city’s tourist centers following a violent incident last week and the mayor will also approve a $105 million expenditure for a new police precinct after killing the project in a bid to “defund” the NYPD last year.

De Blasio announced Monday that the NYPD will more closely patrol Times Square as the number of tourists steadily increases — and after three people were wounded in a shooting last weekend.

“More New York police officers will patrol Times Square after a shooting last weekend that injured three people, including a child, the mayor said on Monday as he sought to reassure visitors that the city is safe as it reopens after the yearlong coronavirus pandemic,” Reuters reported Tuesday. “Mayor Bill de Blasio said the New York Police Department would add an unspecified number of officers from the Critical Response Command, one of the force’s first lines of defense against a terrorist attack, to patrols in Times Square, a popular tourist attraction.”

“We’re putting additional NYPD resources in the Times Square area to add an extra measure of protection,” the mayor noted in his interview. “It will be use of our CRC officers in Times Square. You’ll see additional presence.”

The announcement comes close on the heels of another from de Blasio’s office, directly reversing course on a decision to “defund” the New York Police Department last year following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \

In June of 2020, Politico noted, de Blasio pledged to strip New York’s law enforcement operating budget of nearly $1 billion, and take “another $500 million from its operating budget.” That drawback included a decision to scrap plans for a new NYPD precinct in Southeast Queens.

Earlier this month, de Blasio announced plans to move forward with the project, pledging $105 million to the effort.

“This is something that for decades the community asked for,” de Blasio told a press conference.

These are just the latest changes to de Blasio’s plan to “defund the police,” as Politico noted.

“Other elements of the NYPD budget cuts pledged by de Blasio and the City Council have also been scuttled. They announced that school safety agents would be moved out of the NYPD, but budget documents showed they actually remain within the police department. The same was true for school crossing guards,” Politico reported earlier in May. “An NYPD overtime cap imposed as part of the budget cut deal is expected to be missed by hundreds of millions of dollars.”

As in many major cities, New York has suffered from a dramatic rise in crime, and, according to Gothamist, is suffering through its worst gun violence epidemic in “nearly a decade.”

“In 2021 alone, 299 people have been shot, a 54% increase over the same time last year, and the most the city has seen since 2012,” the outlet reported. “Ninety-two people have been murdered, a 19.5% jump, according to the most recent NYPD data. In 2020, the city recorded 462 murders, an increase of 45% from 2019, even as most other major felonies declined. Shooting incidents overall exploded 97% last year.”

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Baltimore mayor announces that mental health ‘counselors’ — instead of police — will be sent to some 911 calls

Quote:Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) has announced a new pilot program that will direct some 911 emergency calls to mental health professionals in lieu of notifying law enforcement officials.

What are the details?
According to a report from WJZ-TV, 911 dispatchers in the city receive about 36 emergency mental health calls a day.

Those calls will now go to dedicated mental health counselors trained in conflict resolution.

"Think about the sheer number of hours that our police officers are actually out dealing with something that they're not trained to do, versus being out there going after someone who's committed an armed carjacking," Scott reasoned.

Last week, The Baltimore Sun reported that the program — 911 Diversion Pilot — "aims to connect callers with the most appropriate resources and responses for their needs."

The outlet cited a 2015 study from the Treatment Advocacy Center that found "people with untreated mental illness were more likely to die during an altercation with police officers than those without mental illness."

During a Friday news conference, Scott said, "This pilot is not about defunding the police, but rather acknowledging that police department cannot tackle violent crime, our fire department cannot tackle public health and mental emergencies — and everything else."

When will the program start?
The new program, the station reported, is set to start in June and will reportedly not cost the city any further monies as the city is said to possess existing contracts with all nonprofit organizations providing the counselors' care and participation in the new program.

Baltimore resident Denise Mack says that the violence has to stop.

"[I]t's just getting worse," she told the station. "You've got to go to funerals, got to see your son or nephew lying there. It's bad. I just wish everyone would get themselves together."

Homicides in the embattled city, WJZ reported, have risen 15% year over year.

How many dead mental health counselors?

I'm willing to let Baltimore see if it is a better way, but I doubt it.

Quote:Ya don’t say?

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is a man who wanted his cake while eating it too. He wanted to kiss up to the Black Lives Matter movement tearing his city apart while simultaneously distancing himself from their more extreme asks such as “defund the police department.”

When that demand was made of him in the middle of a hostile crowd he had been kissing up to that day, to his credit, Frey said no, resulting in his being booed out of the area. What he did end up doing, however, is putting rules on the police that tied one hand behind their back.

As covered by CBS affiliate WCCO-TV, Frey threw down restraining orders against the Minneapolis PD which forced them to seek authorization from the chief when using crowd control weapons, including tear gas. With trained seals within the department’s leadership clapping along with this, and city council members openly planning to dismantle the Minneapolis police department, things were looking bad for the city.

And it did.

WCCO-TV reported that the mayor is seeing the end result of even the mere calls to defund the police. During a community gathering where the city mourned the death of seven people just this Sunday, Frey along with Pastor Dale Hume were asked about the rise in crime and both agree that talking about defunding the police was a bad idea:

“The violence needs to stop, its unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That’s unacceptable. We should be holding these perpetrators accountable,” Frey said.

The mayor is hoping for a both/and approach to tackling crime.

“It’s going to take a very comprehensive effort. Yes, it includes safety beyond policing, and it includes police. And, you know, I’m one that has been working lock step with our Chief [Medaria] Arradondo, and I’m calling on the council members to try to work with him as well,” Frey said.

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“To people who think that the easy solution to this is defund the police, when you live here and something like this happens, you can obviously see that is not the solution,” Hume said.

Mayor Frey agrees.

“It’s just the reality of the solution, you know. When you make big, overarching statements that we’re going to defund or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers, there’s an impact to that,” Frey said. “Do we need massive change? Yes we do. We need accountability and culture shift within our department, and we need police.”

Frey is still trying to have his cake here, though.

Does Frey think the Minneapolis PD needs “massive change?” Probably not massive. Making a few changes to training and situational awareness for officers may be in order, but what massive changes is he talking about? It’s an awfully vague statement to make and sounds more like someone trying to appease a group of people.

If cities like Minneapolis are going to get right, they need to stop trying to kowtow to people who can’t be appeased. Police are necessary, the ability for citizens to defend themselves is necessary, and if Minneapolis became a city where crime isn’t tolerated and has real consequences, then you’d see a dramatic change in how people behave there. It’s no mystery that the worst riots happened in cities where leadership was afraid to disagree with the rioters, it only caused more riots.

In order for society to function, law and order have to be established. It seems Frey knows what he has to do, he just has to find the will to do it. That means angering a lot of the hard-left leaders within the city, but he needs to remember he doesn’t answer to them, he answers to the people, and the people are being abused, intimidated, and killed by the people he’s trying to appease.

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Quote:Violent crimes soared in most areas where police agencies are working under federally court-ordered reform agreements.

The finding comes from an Axios review of FBI and Justice Department data on all 12 agencies operating under consent decrees since 2012. The outlet found that seven of the areas where police agencies are under consent decrees experienced increases in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the agreement.

Consent decrees are court-approved legal agreements reached without litigation. With it, a judge can keep tabs on a police department to make sure it is complying with court orders.

Here are the areas where violent crime skyrocketed two years after consent decrees.

Los Angeles County — 61%
Albuquerque, New Mexico — 36%
Seattle — 27%
New Orleans — 20%
Maricopa County, Arizona — 19%
Cleveland — 13%
Baltimore — 11%
Axios noted that the increase in Los Angeles County jumped after a consent decree with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. It said the agency has a troubled history among Black and Latino residents.

The outlet said the increase in violent crimes suggest that there could be unintended consequences to policing changes that many have called for since George Floyd’s death.

Still, Axios pointed out, municipalities with less than 50,000 people that entered into court agreements had declines in violent crime rates, including Ferguson, Missouri, a city of 21,000 people. Ferguson saw its crime rate drop by 7% during the same two-year comparison.

East Haven, Connecticut, and Warren, Ohio, also saw noticeable declines during the same time period after their decrees.

Axios said key data for two larger cities operating under consent decrees, Portland and Newark, New Jersey, was missing and could not be included in the comparison.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced that the Justice Department would launch "pattern or practice" investigations into the police department in Minneapolis and Louisville following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Last month, Garland reversed a Trump-era policy limiting the number of consent decrees the Department of Justice can use in pushing for changes at police departments and other agencies in abuse and misconduct cases.

Garland, in a memo to all U.S. attorneys and DOJ leaders, said the agency will ''return to the traditional process that allows the heads of litigating components to approve most settlement agreements, consent decrees, and the use of monitors in cases involving state and local governmental entities.'

''This memorandum makes clear that the Department will use all appropriate legal authorities to safeguard civil rights and protect the environment, consistent with longstanding Departmental practice and informed by the expertise of the Department’s career workforce,'' he added.

Meanwhile, Axios reported that Stephen Rushin, associate professor of law at Loyola University Chicago, said the reported crime surges may be short-lived. His study into 31 cities that operated under federal agreements between 1994 and 2016 revealed the increases were temporary and followed by a steady decline.

He said: "What it does is it suggests that those consent decree measures don't just go away after a year or two. They're normally (in place) pretty long-term. Then crime falls."

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“Consent decrees”…

The federalization of local policing. Just what the “Moderate” marxists currently in charge want across the board.

The nameless, faceless, wholly unaccountable bureaucrats in the glass and marble halls of the Dee Cee palaces know better how to run the Abilene PD than the people in Abilene.

Good plan. Good luck.



Y’all starting to figure this out yet?






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(05-15-2021 10:09 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:Violent crimes soared in most areas where police agencies are working under federally court-ordered reform agreements.

The finding comes from an Axios review of FBI and Justice Department data on all 12 agencies operating under consent decrees since 2012. The outlet found that seven of the areas where police agencies are under consent decrees experienced increases in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the agreement.

Consent decrees are court-approved legal agreements reached without litigation. With it, a judge can keep tabs on a police department to make sure it is complying with court orders.

Here are the areas where violent crime skyrocketed two years after consent decrees.

Los Angeles County — 61%
Albuquerque, New Mexico — 36%
Seattle — 27%
New Orleans — 20%
Maricopa County, Arizona — 19%
Cleveland — 13%
Baltimore — 11%
Axios noted that the increase in Los Angeles County jumped after a consent decree with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. It said the agency has a troubled history among Black and Latino residents.

The outlet said the increase in violent crimes suggest that there could be unintended consequences to policing changes that many have called for since George Floyd’s death.

Still, Axios pointed out, municipalities with less than 50,000 people that entered into court agreements had declines in violent crime rates, including Ferguson, Missouri, a city of 21,000 people. Ferguson saw its crime rate drop by 7% during the same two-year comparison.

East Haven, Connecticut, and Warren, Ohio, also saw noticeable declines during the same time period after their decrees.

Axios said key data for two larger cities operating under consent decrees, Portland and Newark, New Jersey, was missing and could not be included in the comparison.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced that the Justice Department would launch "pattern or practice" investigations into the police department in Minneapolis and Louisville following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Last month, Garland reversed a Trump-era policy limiting the number of consent decrees the Department of Justice can use in pushing for changes at police departments and other agencies in abuse and misconduct cases.

Garland, in a memo to all U.S. attorneys and DOJ leaders, said the agency will ''return to the traditional process that allows the heads of litigating components to approve most settlement agreements, consent decrees, and the use of monitors in cases involving state and local governmental entities.'

''This memorandum makes clear that the Department will use all appropriate legal authorities to safeguard civil rights and protect the environment, consistent with longstanding Departmental practice and informed by the expertise of the Department’s career workforce,'' he added.

Meanwhile, Axios reported that Stephen Rushin, associate professor of law at Loyola University Chicago, said the reported crime surges may be short-lived. His study into 31 cities that operated under federal agreements between 1994 and 2016 revealed the increases were temporary and followed by a steady decline.

He said: "What it does is it suggests that those consent decree measures don't just go away after a year or two. They're normally (in place) pretty long-term. Then crime falls."

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Thank God Trump and the GOP kept that pos, white supremacy fetish, freak garland off the supreme court.

(05-07-2021 11:56 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Dems once again showing their true colors. Prioritizing foreigners/ illegals over US citizens.

Yep they’ve been doing it for years.

America last.

Quote:The far-left Axios reports “Police recruiting suffers as morale hits new lows,” citing the Democrat-run cities of Charlotte, Minneapolis, Des Moines, and Denver as the most notable examples.

Charlotte, North Carolina, which has been run exclusively by Democrats for 22 years, says policing applications are down 26 percent compared to the first four months of last year.

Des Moines, Iowa, which has been run exclusively by Democrats for nearly a quarter century, saw a 50 percent drop in police applicants.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, a city with a non-partisan office but a mayor who’s currently serving his fourth four-year term, “had only 10 applicants qualify for interviews compared to what is typically about 40, due to a smaller applicant pool[.]”

Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Democrats have been in charge for nearly 50 years, reports: “There are far fewer police officers patrolling the streets of Minneapolis so far this year than city officials anticipated. Members of a City Council committee Thursday approved $6.4 million for the city’s Police Department to hire dozens more officers this year.” Further, the city’s own data shows the number of officers plummeted from 817 to just 638.

Denver, Colorado, where Democrats have been in charge for 59 years, “hire[d] 97 fewer officers than expected in 2020. And some of the 81 officers who were injured in last summer’s unrest still have not returned to full duty.”

Not all Democrat-run cities are annihilating police morale. Tampa, Florida, has increased funding. But if morale and recruiting are low, the Democrats in charge are the reason.

Why would anyone want to be a police officer in a city where Democrats are in charge, a city where the domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter are allowed to terrorize, loot, and burn with impunity, a city where if you arrest them they are immediately released, where if you defend yourself, you will be thrown to the howling jackals in the corporate media and forever smeared as a Klansman?

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has just declared “the state of recruitment” is a “crisis for law enforcement,” which is a surprise to no one who understands human nature.

The Democrat Party, as well as countless everyday Democrat voters, have not only turned against the police. They have become openly pro-criminal, which is the only way to describe the full-throated endorsement of a terrorist movement like Black Lives Matter as they openly and proudly rampage, burn, and loot city after city, all to the sound of a cheering media.

Being a police officer is tough enough, dangerous enough, but when you are going into the field knowing you are being portrayed as the villain, it’s even more dangerous, not to mention thankless.

The net effect of this is going to be exactly what the voters in these cities deserve: more crime, more blight, lower property values…

You get what you vote for, and despite what’s happening before their very own eyes, these morons keep voting for terror, anarchy, death, racism, poverty, pollution, and failure.

But at least the mean tweets are gone.

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Idiots in Austin, Texas defunded the police and crime is flourishing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasrei...7a564679a9

https://thetexan.news/after-this-weekend...last-year/

https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/violent-...ustin-why/

https://www.areavibes.com/austin-tx/crime/

Austin gets an F on crime rates and they don't need police. At least you can pack here in case you need to defend yourself and your property.

Don't you just love the results the liberals bring to our cities?