Since George Floyd the following has happened. Police have been defunded, retirements and resignations are up. âPolice officers across the country, angered by budget cuts and a lack of support from left-leaning politicians, are fighting back by walking off the jobâŚOfficers say they have been demonized unfairly and have had enough. They are resigning or retiring en masse, creating a new crisis: police forces that are short-staffed and inexperienced.â Police counter protests, 'defund' push with retirements, resignations - Washington Times. Prosecutors have adopted âDo not prosecuteâ positions. âLeft-wing prosecutors overseeing Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia and San Francisco have embraced soft-on-crime approaches, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
Several top district attorneys vowed not to prosecute specific crimes as a matter of policy. Multiple analyses have shown left-wing prosecutors dropping or diverting more charges than their predecessors.â âWe Will Not Prosecuteâ: Left-Wing Prosecutors, Many Backed By Soros Cash, Implement Soft-On-Crime Policies Across America
This piece is headlined âCrime is not being prosecutedâ: Wyandotte County DA Mark Dupree endangers public safety". " Something is wrong, dangerously wrong, in Wyandotte County. And itâs spilling out into the entire Kansas City region.
Whether through incompetence or inexperience, the Wyandotte County District Attorneyâs Office is inarguably playing Russian roulette with the publicâs safety. And people may be dying as a resultâŚIn an investigation by The Star, alarmed sources inside the criminal justice system have warned about District Attorney Mark Dupreeâs presiding over shockingly lenient plea deals, missing and belated subpoenas, unlawful delays in producing evidence for defense attorneys and violent cases being dismissed and suspects let free." https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article244413622.html
Murder Rates are upâŚMSN
âHomicide rates in several of Americaâs largest cities have risen by double-digit percentages within the last few months, amid police officersâ decisions across the country to resign or retire early.ââŚ
I think the number was 1500 businesses in Minneapolis alone were destroyedâŚSo forgive me if in the face of police being defunded and rendered less effective I donât take your suggestions of crime declining in the face of all the destruction of the last few months pretty unseriously.
Nope, my nephewâs neighborhood is nice and he is a cable installer, wife stays home with the kids. Cost of living and housing are highly variable in this country.
The city of New York has been safe for two and a half decades. It has been run by libs that entire time. It is the safest big city in the country.
Now whatâs happening now is in part the fault of those who have been running it taking it too far but to forget 20 years of stability and safety is ridiculous.
My white female wife owns a successful business, as do I. Our kids are happy and well adjusted. And we donât care what you think or wanna broad brush about people you donât know anything about.
Itâs interesting how CNN and others put out these polls âresultsâ that support their narratives, but whenever they get a studio panel of citizens in, the panelâs donât give the responses the polls would predict.