Let them eat bullets!-----Wealthier communities will turn to private policing as cities deplete their own police departments

Wealthier communities will turn to private policing as cities deplete their own police departments

"Atlanta, like most major cities this year, is experiencing a surge in violent crime. 

The city is also playing out the next logical chapter of the “defund the police” movement: private, supplemental police forces for affluent communities.

...This is the natural result of the movement to defund police. 

If cities decide not to direct enough resources to their police departments, wealthier communities such as Buckhead will fundraise for supplemental police forces. 

Less affluent communities won’t have that privilege; instead, they will have to rely on an insufficiently funded police department in a time when homicides and aggravated assaults have spiked...Read all.