re: Vox.com says murders are up but crime is not

Is murder not a crime??

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But nationwide, over half of the current criminal case load is immigration now. In the SW it's closer to 80-90%>

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Is that true? I haven’t been around a courthouse in a lot of years but is it really that swamped with immigration issues?

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"well, I probably wouldn't try to kill this person last year, but police funding is down this year, so my odds of success have increased X%..."

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In New orjeans we had a teen murder a teen, get released on bond, and murdered another teen.

Now they are arguing if he should be tried as an adult.

Dem mayor, dem da, dem judges.


They all have blood on their hands.

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I will make it easier for him

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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)

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Since when are budget cuts the same as "defunding"?


de·fund
/de'f?nd/
prevent from continuing to receive funds


I would imagine a vast majority of these budget cuts aren't driven by 'rabidly liberal' city governments run by democratic socialists but rather, ya know, we're LITERALLY coming out a pandemic that slashed tax receipts to local and state governments.

Remember when the dems wanted to send money to those governments to help close the budgetary gaps caused by the pandemic and the GOP voted it down? I do. And now that those cities are having to adjust for budgetary shortfalls with no federal help, you want to blame the mayors and city councilmen for the budget cuts? That's, if nothing else, rich.


ETA: "Defund the police" will be studied in PoliSci classes for the next century on how NOT to present your message. Not only do the actual aims of the movement have nothing to do with "defunding", but who in their right minds wants to intimate they're not going to fund a police department and expect to get elected?! fricking retards.

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San Fran and NYC legalized theft up to around the $1000 mark. Instantly, crime disapoears.

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They didn't legalize theft. They dropped shoplifting up to $1000 to a misdemeanor. Still bad policy, imo, but they sure as shite didn't "legalize" shoplifting and theft.

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They dropped shoplifting up to $1000 to a misdemeanor

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And some of the DAs in Cali have said they won't even prosecute it so the police don't even bother with it. It's not "legalized" directly but it's not enforced either. Ask Walgreens why they have closed the majority of their stores in San Fran.

All of the criminals are being murdered so there’s less criminals to commit crime