People were calling for that, but not legislators.
Do you want me to start accusing Republican lawmakers of wanting to hang Mike Pence?
This place is such a think tank.
Are you fucking kidding me ?
So... who defunded all these Democrat run cities? If not politicians... then who?
https://republicanleader.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cities-That-Have-Defunded-the-Police-.docx32.pdf
Cities that Have Defunded the Police
- 1. Austin, TX ($150 million cut)
- 2. Baltimore, MD ($22 million cut)
- 3. Boston, MA ($12 million cut)
- 4. Burlington, VT ($1 million cut)
- 5. Columbus, OH ($23 million cut)
- 6. Denver, CO ($55 million cut)
- 7. Eureka, CA ($1.2 million cut)
- 8. Hartford, CT ($2 million cut)
- 9. Los Angeles, CA ($175 million cut)
- 10.Madison, WI ($2 million cut)
- 11. Minneapolis, MN ($8 million cut)
- 12. New York, NY ($1 billion cut)
- 13. Norman, OK ($865,000 cut)
- 14. Oakland, CA ($14.6 million cut)
- 15. Oklahoma City, OK ($5.5 million cut)
- 16. Philadelphia, PA ($33 million cut)
- 17. Portland, OR ($15 million cut)
- 18. Salt Lake City, UT ($5.3 million cut)
- 19. San Francisco, CA ($120 million cut)
- 20.Seattle, WA ($69 million cut)
- 21. Steamboat Springs, CO ($1.5 million cut)
- 22.Washington, DC ($15 million cut)
Cities Considering Defunding the Police
- 23. Chicago, IL ($80 million cut considered)
- 24. Ithaca, NY ($12.5 million cut considered)
- 25. Kansas City, KS ($12 million cut considered)
- 26. New Orleans, LA ($26 million cut considered)
Total: $1.73 billion cut
Oh that wasn't us. We didn't call for that. That was just our constituents, supporters and advocates, mayors, councilors and local legislators ... we don't, at all, listen and take our mandate from them.
We didn't defund the police... we're "re-imagining", "re-thinking" and "reforming" the police... by removing their funding. See? Totally different. We're just taking money from the police budget to give to other things.... like our own personal protection details.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/07/28/in_major_us_cities__mayors_defunded_the_police_while_spending_millions_on_their_own_police_security_details_785764.html#!
The games Democrats play with words, carefully dancing around the obvious, so as to achieve their agenda while maintaining plausible deniability when things go horribly wrong.
And they have gone horribly wrong for Democrats in the polls over the last 18 months. Now they are "circling back" on their rhetoric and trying to pretend that none of this was their idea, it was all "the other guys" who came up with these ideas... we're not responsible, in any way, for the state of things among the communities we fully control.
Now they're trying to blame this on Covid... that they tried giving all these cities money but the big bad Republicans stopped us... so it is their fault, they're the ones defunding the police.
You have to be willfully obtuse to think we all forgot the way things went down in 2020 and who was saying what and when.