Posted on Oct 7, 2021
Why Are We Still Talking about Defunding the Police? | National Review
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"New York suffered a 97 percent increase in shootings from 2019 to 2020, and 2021 is on track to be even worse. As of June, 2021 had seen 52 children under the age of 15 shot in Chicago, with ten fatalities..."
Why Are We Still Talking about Defunding the Police? | National Review
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Defunding the police was never a real thing, kind of like the ACA death panels, but the right sure likes to rally the base around crazy ideas.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Google: "What Cities Have Defunded Police?" and the answer is, New York City. Washington, D.C. Baltimore. Philadelphia. Los Angeles. San Francisco. Atlanta. Minneapolis. I'm afraid it is all too real.
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The article ignores how domestic violence is a major related issue with rise in shootings during this pandemic period. The National Review story focuses on funding and does not distinguish between shootings involving strangers or connected people. Police are a necessary element of society for after a crime happens in public, but they may not prevent some of the shootings cited that include a bad private relationship.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/national-increase-domestic-violence-shooting-deaths-during-covid-19/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/national-increase-domestic-violence-shooting-deaths-during-covid-19/
A Handful of States Fueled a National Increase in Domestic Violence Shooting Deaths as COVID-19...
More than 2,000 people were killed by domestic-violence-related shootings in 2020 — a 4% increase across the U.S. over 2019, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. But that uptick was not equally distributed.
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Defunding the Police is one of the craziest ideas the Democrats ever came up with.
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