Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

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Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby jdege on Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:30 am

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/06/19/skyrocketing-crime-spike-causes-woke-cities-that-defunded-their-police-to-re-fund-them-n1455799
Skyrocketing Crime Spike Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Their Police to Re-Fund Them
Who could gave guessed that defunding the police would cause crime to skyrocket?

Anyone with common sense, obviously. But, woke cities run by liberals learned the hard way as my colleague Stephen Kruiser wrote on June 7. According to a report from Fox Business, cities including New York City, Oakland, Baltimore, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles are “planning to reinstate tens of millions for the construction of new police precincts, increase police department budgets, among other plans to bankroll more efforts to confront the uptick in crime.”
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby yukonjasper on Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:57 am

I guess the experiment is over.....
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby rtk on Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:27 am

yukonjasper wrote:I guess the experiment is over.....


The experiment was over before it started.
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Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby gun_fan111v2 on Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:10 am

I would not assume anything until the funds are spent... those social workers driving Escalades don’t come cheap
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Holland&Holland on Sun Jun 20, 2021 2:58 pm

rtk wrote:
yukonjasper wrote:I guess the experiment is over.....


The experiment was over before it started.

Not an experiment, it is a strategy and they are far from done.
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Lumpy on Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:41 pm

Rebuild the precincts with machine-gun enplacements. :twisted:
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Bearcatrp on Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:11 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
rtk wrote:
yukonjasper wrote:I guess the experiment is over.....


The experiment was over before it started.

Not an experiment, it is a strategy and they are far from done.

Exactly!!!! They are just starting. More to come.
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby daleamn on Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:59 pm

I wish somebody would have made a "Beau Geste" type movie about one of the troubled cities.

Beau Geste is a movie about a French Foreign Legion unit abandoned in a fort, surrounded by hostiles, with terrible leadership. Every night they think about the attacks then next day are sure to bring and they wonder if they'll survive. A lot of deep, sensitive, interpersonal interactions go on, as well as a lot of gun play during the day time attacks.

The modern version would have the police officers, abandoned by their city leaders, holed up in their precincts, safe durint the day, but wondering what new terrors each night will bring. Their would of course be a lot of soul searching drama as well as a lot of action and fireworks (literally) during the night time "mostly peaceful protests".

1966 Beau Geste-Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060155/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6

1939 Beau Geste-Gary Cooper, Ray Milland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031088/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

1926 Beau Geste-Ronald Coleman
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016634/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Holland&Holland on Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:00 pm

Kinda like making our own zombie apocalypse.
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Lumpy on Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:51 pm

daleamn wrote:I wish somebody would have made a "Beau Geste" type movie about one of the troubled cities.

Beau Geste is a movie about a French Foreign Legion unit abandoned in a fort, surrounded by hostiles, with terrible leadership. Every night they think about the attacks then next day are sure to bring and they wonder if they'll survive. A lot of deep, sensitive, interpersonal interactions go on, as well as a lot of gun play during the day time attacks.

The modern version would have the police officers, abandoned by their city leaders, holed up in their precincts, safe durint the day, but wondering what new terrors each night will bring. Their would of course be a lot of soul searching drama as well as a lot of action and fireworks (literally) during the night time "mostly peaceful protests".


A similar premise was Assault On Precinct 13
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Ironbear on Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:17 pm

Heh. Apparently the Star is complaining that it is proving difficult for Minneapolis to recruit police offices... :o
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby TSKNIGHT on Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:50 pm

Ironbear wrote:Heh. Apparently the Star is complaining that it is proving difficult for Minneapolis to recruit police offices... :o


Duh! Lets throw them under the bus, then see if we can hire new officers. That'll work great!
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:59 pm

Ironbear wrote:Heh. Apparently the Star is complaining that it is proving difficult for Minneapolis to recruit police offices... :o


Who woulda thunked that?
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby LarryFlew on Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:04 am

Lumpy wrote:Rebuild the precincts with machine-gun enplacements. :twisted:


And then the woke dipsticks would not give them cartridges so we would just have another for looks only thing going in the government.
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Re: Crime Causes Woke Cities That Defunded Police to Refund Them

Postby daleamn on Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:32 pm

Machine gun emplacements on the precincts...
Well the terribly anti-gun (now) New York Times newspaper, during the Civil War mounted Gatling guns on their roof in case the draft protesters came their way. Yep, classic case of "guns for me but not for thee".
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