Nothing coincidental in the states most affected are the states that support defunding of police and incite riots etc. Get to now live their talk!!!
They voted in these incompetents and now get to live with their choices, so be it!!!
It's been a long time since summer in the US felt this feverish.
It's not just the coronavirus, the social unrest and the soaring temperatures. Violent crime is surging.... Yes sir it is~~
Shootings and homicides, which dipped during the initial lockdown phase of the pandemic, are now rising at alarmingly high rates... who’da thunk it right??🙄
In New York, the homicide rate for the first half of the year is up 23% over 2019, led by a huge spike in recent violence. In Chicago, homicides jumped 39% during the last week of June and the first week of July compared to the same period last year. And Los Angeles has seen double-digit rises in homicides the past two months, and still continue to rack em up!!!
The effort to defund police is largely seen as being sparked by Floyd's 2020 death and the protests and civil unrest that followed and now the excuse for everything going on..
In December, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a budget that shifted approximately $8 million from the police department toward violence prevention and other programs. The cuts did not affect staffing level goals for sworn officers after Mayor Jacob Frey threatened to veto the budget if the council capped police staffing as it had originally intended.
The plan redirected the nearly $8 million from Frey’s $179 million policing budget to mental health teams, violence prevention programs and other initiatives.
And months earlier, in July, it diverted $1.1 million from the department’s $193 million budget to the Office of Violence Prevention for an outreach program geared toward those at high risk for gun violence.
But both are a far cry from the efforts of at least one group, MPD150, which said it was "working towards a police-free Minneapolis." The group pushed for "strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention."
In Atlanta, New Orleans, Washington and other cities, the shooting victims have included children. On Sunday in Brooklyn, a 1-year-old boy was killed by gunfire in his stroller while picnicking with his family.
Opponents of the recent movement to defund police, including President Trump, blame Black Lives Matter protesters and civil unrest for this rise in crime. And they say that what's happening now is a prime example of why cities should not cut police departments' funding. As they see it, this crime surge calls for more police and bigger law enforcement budgets.
Hmmmmm, why so??? Friggen idiots~~
In Portland, records show that murders more than tripled year-over-year.
Police statistics from July 2020, when the city’s budget cuts were made, and this past February -- the most recent data available -- show homicides skyrocketed 270.6% compared to the same time last year.
There were 63 homicide offenses reported from July 2020 through Feb. 2021, but only 17 recorded from July 2019 through Feb. 2020, police data show.
In the first two months of 2021 alone, Portland reported 17 murders -- a 1,600% increase from the single murder reported during the first two months of 2020, Portland Police Bureau statistics show.
But the city also received fewer reports of assault offenses during the same time period compared to last year, records show. There were 5,767 assaults reported from July 2020 through February of this year -- down 6.4% from the 6,159 assaults recorded from July 2019 through February 2020, statistics show.
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