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US cities that defunded their police are continuing to experience historic crime waves


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2021 May 26, 9:08am   57,525 views  380 comments

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https://notthebee.com/article/us-cities-that-defunded-their-police-are-now-experiencing-historic-crime-waves?source=patrick.net

U.S. cities that virtue signaled by defunding their police departments are seeing record crime levels, forcing many city leaders to rethink their basic levels of intelligence.

Here's what has happened in a few cities that voted to slash police budgets:

Homicide grew by 44% in New York, which had 1,531 shootings and 462 murders in 2020.
Homicides also increased 36% in L.A. to 350, leading the police chief to say "a decade of progress" has been erased.
Minneapolis, the center of the "Defund the Police" movement, saw a 46% increase in murders.
Oakland, California has seen a staggering 314% increase in homicides.
Portland, Oregon has seen murders triple.
Austin, Texas has had a 26% increase in aggravated assault reports.
Chicago saw a 65% increase in homicides from June 2020 to February 2021, despite arrests dropping 53%.
Philadelphia hit a 30-year-high with homicides in 2020, with 499 people murdered.
Even smaller cities like Louisville, Kentucky had a record high of 173 murders and is on track to surpass that this year.
The New York Times reported that many such cities are now expanding their police budgets to try to deal with these outcomes that absolutely no one could have seen coming.


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326   Patrick   2024 Mar 15, 4:30pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/man-shot-head-nyc-subway-passengers-sent-scrambling-escape/


Man Shot in Head on NYC Subway, Passengers Sent Scrambling to Escape
327   Patrick   2024 Mar 22, 1:25pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/three-advisors-friday-march-22-2024


ZeroHedge ran a creepy story yesterday headlined, “"What Are We Doing?" Ana Kasparian Flips Out After Suspects In Murder, Dismemberment Case Released In New York.” Yep. It’s just as demonic as it sounds. It’s the latest, and worst, squatter story yet, involving meat cleavers, body parts, so much blood officials condemned the home, and all that with zero bail required from the promptly-released criminals.

Bail shouldn’t even have on been on the table. New York’s mentally-handicapped democrat officials have lost their ever-loving minds. ...

Kasperian, a popular local news commenter in New York, was once an all-in “progressive.” But she has been steadily red-pilled by the nonstop series of lunatic blue policies since the pandemic. At one point in her highly-animated commentary, Kasperian howled, “If being on the left means supporting this, then I’m not on the left, and I’m okay with that. What are we doing? What are we doing Jake? What the F- are we doing?”

The story was that four squatters were recently arrested in a New York home after being accused of dismembering two adult bodies so gruesomely that "there was so much blood in pipes, sink, shower and toilet… that it was deemed uninhabitable.” They were inhabiting the home anyway. Worst of all, after their arrest, the four involved were immediately released, thanks to the state’s ‘progressive’ bail reform laws.

The arrestees were not charged with murder, for some inexplicable reason, except for the obvious possibility that a murder charge would have required bail.

Under New York’s 2019 bail reform laws, charges of mutilation and disposing of murdered corpses are no longer bail eligible. Prosecutors cannot ask for bail, and suspects cannot be remanded to custody.

So.
328   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2024 Mar 22, 8:55pm  

In 2019 LAPD had 9800+ police officers.

Today the number on paper is 8866. The truth is much worse.

Imagine a station that covers 200,000 people having two….TWO….cops on patrol…in one car.

A city the size of Pomona, Pasadena, San Bernadino, Lancaster….having ONE patrol car serving the entire city.

That’s where LAPD currently stands. What do you think a cop thinks when they know if they make a traffic stop it will take backup 15 minutes to arrive?

Current academy classes are completing at less than half the rate of attrition. And of those, more than half intend to leave in less than 3 years.

This is one of the very largest departments in the nation, and the one that all eyes are on. And it’s failing.

Good job Democrats and their mouth breathing voters. You sure showed us.
329   stereotomy   2024 Mar 23, 3:12am  

Patrick says

ZeroHedge ran a creepy story yesterday headlined, “"What Are We Doing?" Ana Kasparian Flips Out After Suspects In Murder, Dismemberment Case Released In New York.” Yep. It’s just as demonic as it sounds. It’s the latest, and worst, squatter story yet, involving meat cleavers, body parts, so much blood officials condemned the home, and all that with zero bail required from the promptly-released criminals.

Another liberal mugged by reality. "WAKE UP WHITE PEOPLE!!!" (back when Stern was good 30 years ago)
330   HeadSet   2024 Mar 23, 7:16am  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Current academy classes are completing at less than half the rate of attrition. And of those, more than half intend to leave in less than 3 years.

This is one of the very largest departments in the nation, and the one that all eyes are on. And it’s failing.

Good job Democrats and their mouth breathing voters. You sure showed us.

Just wait until LA states filling these positions with illegals. Hello 3rd world style protection rackets and extortion traffic stops.
332   GNL   2024 Mar 27, 4:11pm  

stereotomy says

"WAKE UP WHITE PEOPLE!!!" (back when Stern was good 30 years ago)

His name was Daniel Carver.
334   Patrick   2024 Mar 29, 3:30pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/where-are-all-the-men/


New York Councilwoman Asks Why Men Aren’t Protecting People After City Arrested Man Who Protected People
339   Patrick   2024 Apr 13, 9:55pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/these-memphis-teens-gunned-down-three-police-officers-this-morning-and-one-of-them-had-just-been-released-without-bail-for-possessing-an-illegal-firearm-and-a-stolen-car


Memphis Officer Joseph McKinney was killed this morning in a shootout with a man who had been released without bail ... after being caught with a machine gun in a stolen car
340   richwicks   2024 Apr 14, 2:20am  

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/these-memphis-teens-gunned-down-three-police-officers-this-morning-and-one-of-them-had-just-been-released-without-bail-for-possessing-an-illegal-firearm-and-a-stolen-car



Memphis Officer Joseph McKinney was killed this morning in a shootout with a man who had been released without bail ... after being caught with a machine gun in a stolen car


This is the fault of our judicial system.

The criminal is at fault too, but there was no opportunity with a functioning judicial system.
341   HeadSet   2024 Apr 14, 7:43am  

Patrick says


Memphis Officer Joseph McKinney was killed this morning in a shootout with a man who had been released without bail ... after being caught with a machine gun in a stolen car

The "machine gun" was a Glock with a switch that effectively turns it into a fully auto pistol. This switch is illegal for anyone to possess. The judge that tuned this criminal loose without bail shout be removed.
342   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2024 Apr 14, 8:15am  

HeadSet says

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says


Current academy classes are completing at less than half the rate of attrition. And of those, more than half intend to leave in less than 3 years.

This is one of the very largest departments in the nation, and the one that all eyes are on. And it’s failing.

Good job Democrats and their mouth breathing voters. You sure showed us.

Just wait until LA states filling these positions with illegals. Hello 3rd world style protection rackets and extortion traffic stops.


It’s already happening.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/lapd-daca-officers-guns/3288740/?amp=1
343   HeadSet   2024 Apr 14, 8:24am  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

It’s already happening.

Wow. Ever driven in Mexico? Be prepared to pay the cop directly for any traffic violations.
347   Patrick   2024 May 5, 5:22pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/watch-police-in-la-raid-warehouse-filled-with-shoplifted-goods


Police in LA raid warehouse FILLED with shoplifted goods ...

Wal-Mart, Target, CVS, and Walgreens all sent their own investigators to figure out which products, of the $100,000+ bust, belong to which stores.

"This is random because it's all stolen products so you see everything from food products, household products, everything you can think of that's stolen," says Captain Calvin Mah from the LA County Sheriff's department.

What's even crazier is that Los Angeles has become such a hub for crime that thieves from across the southwest are using LA as a sort of distribution center for stolen products.

The sheriff's department got information from investigators for CVS. The haul includes more than $100,000 in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics taken from stores in Arizona, Nevada and California.


Epidemic crime is a direct and inevitable result of electing liberals.
348   HeadSet   2024 May 5, 7:40pm  

Patrick says

Police in LA raid warehouse FILLED with shoplifted goods ...

Yet no word on who was prosecuted for this fencing operation.
357   Patrick   2024 Jun 11, 6:02pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/manager-fired-by-big-lots-after-20-years-for-following-a-shoplifter-who-assaulted-one-of-his-employees


What happens at Big Lots when you pursue a shoplifter who has assaulted one of your employees and then report the shoplifting assaulter to the police?

You get fired, that's what happens. At least in New York.

Yes, Pat Guider lets shoplifters exit his store all the time. It's the store's policy; they simply document the shoplifting and move on. But this time was different. Guider witnessed a shoplifter take a swing at one of his employees, so he called the police and followed the shoplifter at a distance once he left the store.

And apparently this was too much for Big Lots, because they fired him for it.

Pat Guider, a manager at a Big Lots store in New York, was terminated after over 20 years of service for pursuing a shoplifter who assaulted an employee and then informing the police about the incident.

On May 10, Guider witnessed a shoplifter swing a punch at his assistant manager while attempting to leave the store. Concerned for the safety of his team, Guider followed the assailant at a distance through the parking lot while providing updates to 911. Two weeks after the incident, Guider was summoned to his district manager's office and informed of his termination. He expressed frustration over the decision, maintaining that he acted correctly in response to a violent situation.

Although Big Lots has not commented specifically on Guider's case, the company has a policy displayed in-store prohibiting employees from leaving the premises to pursue or detain customers. However, Guider defended his actions, emphasizing that he did not endanger the store or any customers who were present at the time.


We need to return to shooting shoplifters on sight.

And there should be large cash rewards to anyone who shoots the shoplifter.
358   Patrick   2024 Jun 14, 2:19pm  

https://notthebee.com/cleanArticle/oakland-homeowner-arrested-for-murder-after-shooting-crowbar-wielding-burglar


77-year-old Oakland homeowner arrested for murder after shooting crowbar-wielding burglar
359   Ceffer   2024 Jun 14, 2:36pm  

Criminals are drafted soldiers in the demoralization and terrorizing of the populace. As per Stalin, you don't terrorize the populace by persecuting the guilty. You terrorize the population by persecuting the innocent. The Soros Fecal Impaction DA's are Stalinist terror tools.
360   Patrick   2024 Jun 18, 2:25pm  

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4726576-secret-service-member-robbed-at-gunpoint-during-bidens-weekend-california-trip/


Secret Service member robbed at gunpoint during Biden’s weekend California trip


https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/behave-tuesday-june-18-2024-c-and


The public wants to help. But we are hamstrung, though, because media isn’t providing much detail about the humiliating incident, for obvious reasons. Mostly political. The Hill didn’t disclose the Agent’s gender, referring to him or her as “them” and “they.” Maybe it’s fair, though, since these days you can’t just assume a Secret Service Agent’s gender regardless of which equipment was installed at birth.
361   HeadSet   2024 Jun 18, 6:48pm  

Patrick says

Secret Service member robbed at gunpoint during Biden’s weekend California trip

Reading the details of that The Hill article, I infer that a female SS agent had her purse stolen.
362   Patrick   2024 Jun 22, 3:12pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/bruh-porch-pirates-are-now-fighting-over-packages-a-split-second-after-the-ups-guy-delivers-them


BRUH: Porch pirates are now fighting over packages a split second after the FedEx guy delivers them
364   Patrick   2024 Jul 6, 8:43pm  

https://www.foxnews.com/us/mob-ravages-california-mini-mart-during-flash-robbery-airport-shocking-video-shows


Mob ravages California mini-mart during flash robbery near airport, shocking video shows

The gas station's owner said several hours passed before police responded to the crime

Dozens of people ransacked a gas station mini-mart near the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, early Friday morning, leaving the store destroyed.

Shocking surveillance video shows suspects in a flash mob tearing apart the store as they rifled through the refrigerated section and shelves, smashed items and filled shopping baskets full of loot.

Sam Mardaie, the owner of the 76 Gas Station & Mini Market on Hegenberger Road, told FOX 2 the thieves caused an estimated $100,000 in damage at the store and that they threatened two employees working at the time.


365   AmericanKulak   2024 Jul 6, 8:46pm  

Oops, posted this in it's own threat.

Imagine what would happen if the US Grid went down. Even if it was limited to a coast or a region of the coast, it would look like this in the cities.

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