"If violent crime rates are surging, should the police get more funding or less funding?
You would think that the answer should be obvious, but unfortunately major cities all over the nation are choosing to significantly reduce police budgets right now.
...It is so sad to watch so many of our once great cities degenerate into crime-ridden, gang-infested war zones, and the fact that our economy is crumbling so rapidly is just going to make things even worse...
- Meanwhile, Seattle had seen 55 murders this year as of Monday, the highest level since at least 2008, the last year of data available. The troubled city is also suffering a spike in violent crime, with 8,418 burglary incidents, up from to 7,634 last year, according to police.
- In New Orleans, police funding is being reduced by 11 million dollars and a new furlough policy is causing many officers to leave the force entirely…Meanwhile, homicides are up 60 percent this year, and carjackings are up “more than 100 percent”…
- In Minneapolis, the politicians are still squabbling about how much they want to take out of the police budget…Why they would want to take any money away from the police is a mystery, because carjackings in the city are up a whopping 537 percent in 2020…
- In Los Angeles, the police budget was slashed by 150 million dollars this year...Read all!
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