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rogressive defunding of the police has indisputably led not just to lost lives but also to economic devastation in the cities that attempted it.Murders increased by 39 percent nationwide, from 16,425 in 2019 to 22,900 in 2021, and remain far above pre–“defund the police” movement levels. But the cost of crime isn’t just felt in lives lost, although that is its most tragic impact. Cities that defunded the police have also been economically devastated. LINK
PF: The weird and flabbergasting thing is that that Dems are now accusing the Republicans of wanting to “defund the police” because Reps are hammering the FBI, who worked to bring down a Republican President (per Durham). Thing to note here is that the Reps are not talking of defunding. But of splitting the internal intelligence and the police functions and de-politicising the leadership (which now quite openly skews heavily Democratic). Not quite the same thing as the Dem mayors slashing police budgets and then being surprised by soaring murders and violent crime.
