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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People, you can be upset about the recent crime, and you can be dissatisfied with the current mayor / city council, [b]but quit spouting right wing talking points[/b] and please identify what specific measures have been done by the current elected officials that relate to a crime increase.

They have not "defunded" the police. I believe there are vacancies, but all police departments are having challenges with recruitment. They are doing collective bargaining with city employees (one of the first in the state to do this as soon as state law changed to allow it,) They are not cutting $ from the budget. Maybe one of you is going to say they should be increasing $ to budget for law enforcement above what they are, but in my experience the folks that complain the loudest about local government also scream the loudest when increases in budget mean a higher tax bill.

The one thing I can think of that "might" have an impact was the loss of support for SROs at school. Again, not sure if the most recent wave of crime being discussed here will end up having any connections with the schools at all, but in a general sense the argument could be made that it's a benefit to have police assigned inside the schools.

However, if you happen to believe that (full disclosure: I'm pro SRO) then do your homework. It's not "the entire council" and it's not the Mayor who wanted to pull the SROs. It's was some folks from the previous Council (NEVER the majority of the School Board) and:
John Chapman
Canek Aguirre
You need to call them out by name and vote them out if you don't like them. Fortunately, they are in the minority now, so SROs are back. 
This a deep blue town, and by being sloppy and lumping the entire Council and Mayor in to one big pile, rather than naming and shaming particular blowhards, you let them continue. [/quote]

Can you cite where on this thread people were spouting right wing talking points? I can't find any mention of "defunding the police" here but perhaps I missed it when I re-read it.

Also, you may want to update yourself on the SRO conversations between city council and the school board. A lot is not reported, one has to watch the meetings. [/quote]

[b]You know Wilson could have voted against the budget that defunded the SROs, but he voted for it.[/b]  He is very weak on the issue.  And he never said a peep about the schools being closed for so long.  The whole council and CA Porter are proponents of soft policing and bail "reform".  And the council in no way provides adequate infrastructure of any sort to go along with their push for high density low income housing.  There are no policy differences from San Francisco or Chicago, its just much smaller.  Alexandria used to be quirky and unique, now its just like every other tax base fleeing city in the country.[/quote]

that's the key right there when people say Wilson supports SROs in the schools. Poor John Chapman, Wilson's water must be awfully heavy.[/quote]

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