AS for San Fran: San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced a plan for how the city will spend $120 million over the next two years, pulled from law enforcement budgets, to reinvest in the city's long-underserved Black communities. "The Dream Keeper Initiative," as it's dubbed, increases investments in workforce development, health campaigns, youth and cultural programs and housing support. This kind of spending to help communities could reduce the incidence of crime and support local communities. WIthout looking at what the $120 million is being cut from you cannot really comment. Some police budgets include community outreach and community programs which are better served by other agencies than the police who already have their hands full. I tried to find info on the budget but only found the budet is about $660 million overall. But without more info we cannot see where cuts could be made for positive redirection. Also the Mayor is cutting ALL services across the board by 7.5% due to economic issues since COVID. So no part of city services is immune from budget cuts. You are relying on a BROOKINGS definition of what something means but you should really dive into the numbers. Do you know how many police budgets have been so inflated. If you go back and look at budget cuts in the past, schools and municipal hospitals always get the first swipe and police unions do a better job of protecting their budgets while the city pays out hundreds of millions in lawsuit money. Chicago, for instance, spent $55 million in 2017 and $113 million in 2018. Budgets reveal a society’s priorities. Two photographs circulated on social media last year, driving the point home. One showed cops decked out in expensive military gear. The other showed health care workers wearing garbage bags because of the shortage of basic protective gear during the pandemic. It is not an easy issue and no one really wants to defund the police but it is fair to look at their budgets as they have scaped cuts for many years and cause the city to spend millions on their fuck ups from the few bad ones. Every other profession would undergo an overhaul to stop such liability but the pensioned cops fight to keep the status quo.
While we watch the combat zone in Afghanistan, we have one here at home, one much more deadly to American citizens. The Woke Left simply ignore it. Three major U.S. cities struggling to curb a surge in gun violence collectively had at least 64 people wounded and 12 dead, including a 7-year-old girl, in multiple shootings this weekend, according to police. The shootings in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago came as all three cities have seen sharp increases in the numbers of shootings in 2021. In Chicago, at least 46 people were shot between 5 p.m. on Friday and Sunday afternoon, four of them fatally, according to the Chicago Police Department. According to police incident reports reviewed by ABC News, 23 of the shootings occurred over just a 4 hour period between 12:26 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. Around 3 p.m. on Sunday, a 7-year-old girl was killed and a 6-year-old girl was seriously wounded when someone opened fire on a parked vehicle they were sitting in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side, police said. The 7-year-old was shot in the chest and later died at a hospital. More than 250 children have been shot and 32 killed in Chicago this year, according to police data obtained by ABC station WLS. Prior to this weekend, more than 2,123 people had been shot in Chicago this year, which is a 12% increase from the same time period in 2020, according to police department crime statistics. Before this weekend, Chicago has recorded 478 homicides, a 2% increase over last year at this time. 7-year-old fatally shot as gun violence rocks 3 major US cities (yahoo.com)
More good news for the extreme liberal Democrat enclave known as Oakland, California. Good job guys. Keep it up. I am sure our ET trolls are wetting their pants in excitement. https://www.breitbart.com/crime/202...defund-the-police-movement-for-bloody-monday/
Call BLM This is the Capital 9/18 Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation announced today the launch of a campaign to urge President Biden to stop the militarization of police departments, and ban the transfer of vehicles and equipment made for war zones.