Defund the police !!! er wait

[ChiGoose]

5 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Whatever happened to "defund the police"?

 

I'm reading "Biden seeking $37B for fighting crime, hiring more police." (AP).

 

https://apnews.com/article/biden-police-pennsylvania-wilkes-barre-c3d8e3ee5190adde35b1b7932a47dc4b

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was the dumbest rallying cry of a very vocal minority of people. No police have been defunded, many police budgets went up. It's not surprising that Biden supports increased funding for police.

[aristocrat]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-officer-kills-black-man-215615455.html

 

Crump and other attorneys representing Adams' family say police — who say he had "an extensive criminal history" — have made him out to be a villain.

“My son, Rob, wasn’t a gang member. He was a good kid,” his father, Robert Adams, said Wednesday. "What parent would want to see their kid killed on a video?”

 

Extensive criminal record but still a good kid. 

[B-Man]

Everything or nothing at all: House Democrats flop on policing bill

 

Give House Democrats high marks for consistency in this session of Congress. No matter what initiative they attempt, no matter how desperately they can use a win, they have managed in almost every instance to insist on purity to the point of utter failure. In what should have been an easy lay-up on a policing bill to address crime, Nancy Pelosi’s caucus managed to foil itself yet again, at least for now:

 

House Democrats have abandoned plans to pass an ambitious package of public safety bills, including legislation to ban so-called assault weapons, after days of tumult within their caucus.

 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team made the decision in a closed-door meeting that included several factions of the caucus that still had concerns with elements of the package. Earlier Wednesday morning, Democrats did not have the votes to pass each piece of the package — leadership can only afford to lose four votes if all Republicans oppose it.

 

Why not pass the pieces that can get the votes?

 

House Democrats actually had that teed up, but progressives demanded an everything-or-nothing-at-all approach of the kind that sunk the Build Back Better proposal as well as the election-federalizing bill, HR1. 

 

Punchbowl reported this morning that the policing bill was on life support not so much due to GOP opposition but because of House moderates fearing a midterm backlash to the progressive demands:

 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/27/everything-or-nothing-at-all-house-dems-flop-on-policing-bill-n485599

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/27/dems-punt-policing-package-00048181

 

https://punchbowl.news/archive/7-27-22-punchbowl-news-am/

 

[reddogblitz]

On 7/21/2022 at 7:28 AM, ChiGoose said:

 

It was the dumbest rallying cry of a very vocal minority of people. No police have been defunded, many police budgets went up. It's not surprising that Biden supports increased funding for police.

 

Depends on what the meaning of the word defund is.

 

Seattle cut its police budget the last 2 years in a row.  

 

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In an 8-1 vote Monday, the council approved a $355.5 million budget for the department, saying there are no cuts functionally for SPD. KOMO reports the budget includes funds to hire 125 officers in 2022.

 

But the police department’s budget is smaller compared to years past. In 2021 budget was $363 million and in 2020 is was $401.8 million.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2021-11-23/city-council-cuts-seattle-police-budget-drawing-criticism

 

Guess what? We are now experiencing a crime wave and we have even less cops.

 

Seattle City Council in its wisdom also decided to move parking tickets out of the SPD. Only problem is they didn't have authority to write tickets so they must now refund them all.

 

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SEATTLE — The city of Seattle announced Wednesday that it is voiding approximately 100,000 parking tickets issued between Sept. 5, 2021 and April 5, 2022.

 

About 100,000 additional individuals who received and already paid for parking tickets issued during this period will be receiving refunds beginning the week of June 6.

 

These parking tickets are being dismissed or refunded after the city recently discovered that Parking Enforcement Officers were not issued the proper commissions granting them the authority to issue tickets.

 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/city-seattle-void-parking-tickets-issued-between-september-april/NFZNUPDMGBD2PO7BMRQOHSAAP4/

 

Defund.

Edited July 27, 2022 by reddogblitz

[snafu]

On 7/21/2022 at 10:28 AM, ChiGoose said:

 

It was the dumbest rallying cry of a very vocal minority of people. No police have been defunded, many police budgets went up. It's not surprising that Biden supports increased funding for police.

 

NYC cut $1billion out of the NYCPD's $6billion budget in 2020. That's over 16%.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/nyregion/nypd-budget.html

 

[BillsFanNC]

 

[Doc]

5 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

 

She deserved it.  Just like all those people who didn't take the vaccine and got very sick or died.  Amirite libs?

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

5 hours ago, Doc said:

Amirite libs?

 

 

 

[Unforgiven]

12 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

Again why do democrats always look like freaks.

[Wacka]

Because they are.

[BillsFanNC]