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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see the "DC DEFUNDED THE POLICE" poster still hasn't come through with the numbers to back up the claim.

FAIL.[/quote]

Well, of course there won't be any numbers to back up the "DC defunded the police" claim because the reality is that the big "cut" consisted of not getting $15m of a $530m police budget.  That's a tiny 2.8% of the police budget.   And looking at what happened as a result of that tiny 2.8% budget reduction - arrests went from 28,000 down to 15,000, whereas crime soared.  Homicides tripled, carjackings and armed robberies skyrocketed. Basically, a big part of DC's police force simply stopped doing their jobs.  It's NOT EVEN that DC is hamstrung, that DC is underfunded or understaffed, because DC is one of the highest-funded places in the country for police, and DC has more police per capita than just about any other city in America.  And that doesn't even include all of the federal police departments operating in the city, like Park Police, Capitol Police, Secret Service, Federal Protective Service, nor does it include all of the specialized police departments in DC, like Metro Transit Police, DC Housing Police and so on.

What that tells me is that many in DC police simply stopped doing their jobs.  They were butthurt over comments made during the whole BLM thing and so basically stopped doing their jobs.  They still show up and collect their checks but aren't doing anything for it.  And it shows, over and over again, with the constant comments like "who'd want to be a cop when..." as if it somehow justifies not doing their jobs.  It doesn't.  They swore an oath to protect and serve, and they are being paid to do their jobs.[/quote]

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