D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee slammed his community’s “unacceptable” violence during a lengthy impromptu speech on Friday, following two men being shot near restaurants on Thursday night in a popular area of northwest D.C.
Amid gunshots, diners had to flee their tables for safety, after which two shooting victims were taken to the hospital. Contee emphasized that such violence is becoming the norm in the nation’s capital.
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Squad member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) reportedly spent nearly $70,000 on private security during the last three months while she hypocritically called for defunding the police according to her campaign filing documents.
Between April 15 and June 28, her campaign doled out $54,120.92 in payments for “security services” to RSAT Security Consulting, a sketchy New York firm that touted a shadowy online presence until very recently. Federal Election Commission records also show that she paid $15,000 to Nathaniel Davis for “security services” over that same period.
For New York City progressives, not even violent crime warrants police intervention.
It’s an article of faith among New York City’s progressive leadership that punishment does not deter crime and that putting criminals in jail is at least as evil as whatever they did to get there. From this perspective, sending someone to jail is the worst thing that society can do: it not only destroys the life of the perpetrator but also creates a false sense of accomplishment, while ignoring the socioeconomic “root causes” of crime.
While the racial crusade of liberals continues everywhere, from athletics to media to the State Department, it seems that everyone has forgotten where this all started.
Minneapolis, exploited by activists and politicians, is still reaping the consequences.
The death of George Floyd started a whirlwind of racial obsession. With so many people feeling isolated and alone amid the pandemic, leftist activists forcefully attempted to racialize every aspect of our lives. Minneapolis was the jumping-off point as activists, some of them pretending to be journalists, flocked to the city to push their own agenda. But since the guilty verdict handed down against former police officer Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis has been left behind by the national narrative.
Police officers no longer feel that they have the public’s support.
In the past year, city police departments across the country have reported a dramatic drop in manpower, as cops retire, resign, or leave for the suburbs. The NYPD’s headcount fell to its lowest level in ten years. In Chicago, police retirements rose 15 percent. The San Francisco Police Department is short 400 officers; over 115 officers, including an entire unit dedicated to crowd control, have left the Portland PD; and nearly 200 have left the Minneapolis PD or are on leave, rendering the department unable to engage in proactive policing. A recent survey of police departments found that hiring fell an average of 5 percent in 2020, while resignations rose 18 percent and retirements a whopping 45 percent.
Mental health professionals will be dispatched to 911 calls in Chicago instead of cops following defund the police protests – as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one amid mass exodus from the force
Over the last few weeks, Democrats have been laughably trying to shake their well-earned reputations as advocates for defunding the police off on Republicans. Biden advisor Cedric Richmond kicked things off in a late June interview by saying that “when [Democrats] were in Congress last year trying to pass an emergency rescue plan for cities that were cash-strapped and laying off police, it was the Republicans who objected to it. … They defunded the police.”
A judge has ordered the city of Minneapolis to hire more police officers after eight residents sued over a spike in crime they believe is due to the lack of enough law enforcement on the streets.
The hilariously ironic ruling comes a little more than than a year after social justice activists demanded Minneapolis cut – and even completely dismantle – the city’s police department following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by a white police officer.
A little over a year after the far-left began pushing the “Defund the Police” initiative nationwide, crime rates have skyrocketed, claiming the lives of many Americans and placing even more in peril. Several major American cities heeded the call to reduce police budgets, resulting in fewer officers on the streets.
The largest police departments in the United States have seen a steady decline in officers over the past year and a half amid the CCP virus pandemic and a rash of anti-police activism.
The top three police departments in the country have lost thousands of officers since 2019, driven by an increase in retirements and resignations on top of recruiting woes. Reports of officers leaving in droves have been coming from other major jurisdictions as well.
“Defund the police” has become a popular phrase among leftist activists, gaining momentum during a rash of Black Lives Matter protests and riots last summer following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020.
As news of these protests spread through the media, local governments across the country quickly started acquiescing to the demand. Cities such as New York and Los Angeles significantly cut cut funding for their police departments, while Minneapolis City Council went further, introducing a measure to try and outright abolish and replace its police department.
Following the criminal indictment of a fellow officer, the entire Portland Police Rapid Response Team made the unanimous decision to resign, according to police sources via Portland news outlet KXL.
Cory Budworth, 40, is the first officer in the county to be prosecuted for using force during a violent protest.
Communities and residents in Portland are still struggling as the anti-police riots continue without much coverage from the mainstream media.
Portlanders who spoke to The Epoch Times anonymously (to avoid “woke” retaliation) all agreed that violence is becoming worse and is unacceptable. “There are brazen shootings and killings in broad daylight which did not happen before this past year,” said a 44-year-old man who lives in a Portland suburb. “The violence is no longer limited to nights or certain neighborhoods.”
The city’s weary police department faces continuing unrest.
One adult woman was left dead and three bystanders were injured after an SUV ploughed into a crowd of protesters standing in the dark along Lake Street and Girard Avenue in Minneapolis’s Uptown area late Sunday night.
While the driver’s motive is still unclear, a Minneapolis police news release indicated that drugs or alcohol may have been a factor in the crash. The man’s identity has not been released, but he was immediately arrested and taken into custody, Minneapolis police tweeted.
Most African Americans do not support the defunding of the police
Acellphone video surfaced in Chicago last week showing three African American women twerking on top of a slowly moving Chicago Police Department SUV, as a crowd of night-time revelers urged them on. The clip quickly went viral. Although important details have yet to emerge, CPD officials have acknowledged the incident and stated that an investigation is ‘ongoing’.
Looks like the Chicago Police Department's emphasis on "positive community interactions" is taking off! Great to see! pic.twitter.com/xuHMWsuYci
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) June 5, 2021
