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Defund the Police Craze in Minneapolis
Minneapolis City Council is in recovery from last summer’s “Defund the Police” craze.
The council yanked a million dollars from the police then. Night followed day and the crime rate surged. So now they’ve approved a half million to try to patch things over. They plan to rent cops from the Metro Transit and the sheriff’s office.
Still, the city expects to “hemorrhage” 145 officers. And the police department faces a $14 million cut in the mayor’s budget proposal.
The Council President is retiring too.
Police Budgets Cut While Post Office gets Big Raise
The Houston police chief is hiring officers from defunded cities. Meanwhile, the House voted to add $25 billion in new funding to the U.S. Postal Service
Police Violence and Trump’s Daily Assaults…
But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind.
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Defund Police to Avoid Trouble and get Votes
New York City just defunded its police to the tune of $1 billion. That’s 17% of the law enforcement budget. Murders there are up 21% over a year ago but the funds will be redirected to social services.
“It’s almost like someone thinks there’s a benefit to keeping people divided.” That’s the last line of Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone critique of the #1 best seller “White Fragility”.
Defunding the Police in the Land of CHAZ
Here’s a glimpse of what defunding the police looked like this week. Protesters in Seattle founded a new nation in the hood called CHAZ.
The cops ran away from Chaz without a fight. And the new national ruling elite seem to be using the abandoned police station as its capitol.
My cartoon below is an oldie from the 1999 ant-globalism protests in Seattle.