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POLITICSTexas Lays Down the Law: State Will Now Penalize Cities That ‘Defund the Police’
The State of Texas is taking action to ensure that the trend of rising violence in cities that ‘defund the police’ stops outside its borders. The Texas House of Representatives just approved a bill that will penalize cities that pass bills that strip law enforcement of funding.
“H.B. 1900 stipulates that cities with more than 250,000 residents that slash police funding will have their sales-tax revenue re-appropriated to finance the expenses of the Texas Department of Public Safety,” Yahoo News reported. “The faulted cities will also be prohibited from raising property-tax rates or utility rates, to prevent the municipalities from recouping the money losses.” ...
The facts about police shootings haven’t stopped members of the radical extremist “Squad” from propagating myths to incite the left-wing base and stoke race riots. Besides calling for decreasing security in America’s most crime-torn communities, they are complete hypocrites.
“Members of the progressive-Democrat group in Congress called “the Squad” who have been pushing to defund the police, spent thousands of dollars on private security for themselves, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller,” Rodgers reported.
“FEC reports show Democrats New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush each spent thousands of dollars on their own security,” the FEC filings show. “The payments were described in the FEC filings as either ‘security’ or ‘security services’.”
There you have it. The radical Democrats’ mantra: More security for me, less security for thee.
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1391586233688670208
I do think lack of police can be correlated with a rise in crime, because criminals are quite aware of the probability of police showing up.
Sorry, @Zak but you just don’t have the experience to know what you’re talking about yet.
Drug markets do cause crime as gangs battle with each other, but I wouldn't legalize heroin. Weed, OK, because no one robs a liquor store to get money for weed. But heroin (or morphine) took down both the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire. So many people were on it that whole societies fell apart. It short-circuits all other motivations. Meth is probably about the same in terms of public harm.
Malaysia and Singapore have the death penalty for opiate possession. Almost no drug crime or addicts.
It's well accepted that when seconds count, police are minutes away. Maybe we need more detectives to investigate crimes, but that's not what traffic cop joe is;
Malaysia also practices Sharia law. Is that what you are suggesting for the United States? Also, is the no addicts, or is there no REPORTED addicts because you don't want someone you know executed if you report them to get help for their addiction?
And as far as "weed ok, but you wouldn't..." ; when are we going to get past you thinking you know better than everyone else, and telling them how to live their lives? Didn't we PROVE that was bullshit with Prohibition?!?!
The solution is medical/societal, not outlawing.
The latest data from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction show that from 2001 to 2007, the proportion of Portuguese people age 15-64 who used heroin in the past month doubled and the proportion who used cocaine tripled. The absolute rate remains low, but again, such rises should have received some serious attention in an evaluation of the nation’s drug policy. The Cato report says on page 11 that the population’s drug use increased “only slightly or mildly.” These are unusual terms to use for a tripling of cocaine use in a population; most people would consider such a change as more than slight or mild.
Facebook has refused a fundraiser focused on supporting law enforcement and other first responders from using its paid advertising feature, according to local reports. ...
Perhaps the best example of Facebook’s increasing anti-police decision making is the platform’s continued censorship of Law Enforcement Today, the largest police-owned news outlet. Facebook banned the outlet from its paid advertising feature in January and locked them out of their account.
We have all had unfortunate encounters with cops. Most of mine have been fine but one was really heinous. They kept me on the side of the road in Illinois January weather for three hours while they picked through my rental car looking for drugs that weren’t there. Why? I was from out of town. It was total bullshit.
He points out that Minneapolis murders have surged since the BLM/CNN propaganda hate for the police, and it's true:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/murders-surge-as-police-are-defunded-up-64-in-minneapolis
Number of unarmed blacks killed by police is 14. In the whole fucking US. And virtually all were resisting arrest.