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2021-05-28 -War on Police-
REFUND the police: How US Cities are reversing cuts to police budgets and even increasing them by millions in NYC, Baltimore and LA as violent crime surges
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Many major cities are reversing prior moves to defund police departments, requesting budget increases

  • They are reeling after violent crime soared when they slashed funding for cops last year

  • Murder rate jumped 30% on average last year across a sample of 34 American cities

  • Violent crime continues to increase sharply this year in cities including NYC and Chicago

  • Now Mayor de Blasio is seeking to reinstate $92 million in funding for new police precinct

  • Baltimore mayor wants $27 million funding boost after he led the charge to cut $22 million as councilman

  • Los Angeles mayor proposes increase of $50 million after $150 million in cuts last year
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-28 00:36|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 After 'close examination' a refund policy emerges... how positively civilized of your governments, you finally realized 'go woke, go broke' is a DEAD, END.

Posted by Threreck Angeaque5095 2021-05-28 01:37||   2021-05-28 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 "BLM" will go down in our nation's history as a freak episode of masochism, stupidity, and mass hysteria that enabled a small crew of retarded grifters to pull off a Madoff-style fraud.

It's like a fairy tale out of Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen... like the Pied Piper, or the Emperor's New Clothes. A parable of humans' desperate need to believe in nonsense, and their perennial willingness to be deceived by charlatans.
Posted by Thravith Smiter of the Faith2778 2021-05-28 05:50||   2021-05-28 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ I was thinking something along the lines of a by-product of government enforced affirmative action. A "perennial willingness to be deceived by charlatans"....essentially the same dynamic.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-28 05:55||   2021-05-28 05:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd put that money into a wall or moat.
Posted by Omotle Sholuns7857 2021-05-28 05:59||   2021-05-28 05:59|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ with razor wire, gators, watchtowers and armed sentries with German shepherds and rotary-wing aircraft support
Posted by Cromolet Spusose9456 2021-05-28 06:09||   2021-05-28 06:09|| Front Page Top

#6 a by-product of government enforced affirmative action

That would provide the expository, first part of the fairy tale.

Like the part describing how it was that the good burghers of Hamlin came to invite the Piper into their city, or the description of how the tailor-grifters measured the Emperor for his new suit
Posted by Spanky Forkbeard7805 2021-05-28 06:12||   2021-05-28 06:12|| Front Page Top

#7 BLM is in this country's tradition of Salem, the Martian invasion of New Jersey, and the Great Satanic Daycare Kidnapper Hoax of the late 1980s.

With an overlay of Barnum, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and Ebbers Sanford Madoff Epstein
Posted by Gomez Glins2631 2021-05-28 06:22||   2021-05-28 06:22|| Front Page Top

#8 All made possible by SCOTUS which has made the media exempt for all intents and purposes from libel and fraud. If there were consequences for corrupt corporate behavior as in any other industry for misrepresentation and fraud, a lot of the 'newest crisis' hype would disappear.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-28 06:37||   2021-05-28 06:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Another twist in the take. Looks like it could be the end o' the grift for one of the Emperor's New Clothes tailor-grifters

On to the next grift.

"WokeCoin"?

BLM-NFTs?

Maybe a "SPAC" (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) backed by Oprah, Snoop, JayZ, Hunter Biden, the Duke and Duchess of Markle?
Posted by Phusoque Forkbeard8138 2021-05-28 07:03||   2021-05-28 07:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Who would want to be a sacrificial offering cop in the present day? The feckless grifters won't support you and you'll spend your time denigrated and frustrated by the Pols and DA's
Posted by Frank G 2021-05-28 07:04||   2021-05-28 07:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Pathetic.
Posted by Clem 2021-05-28 08:14||   2021-05-28 08:14|| Front Page Top

#12 In plea bargains, the DA negotiates the assault upon cops out of the charges. Why should anyone want to be a cop after that happening time and time again, then suffer at the hands of pols desperate to retain power as to offer them up as sacrifices.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-28 08:42||   2021-05-28 08:42|| Front Page Top

#13 So they begrudgingly restore the money; good luck finding cops willing to put up with all this bullshit.
Posted by Raj 2021-05-28 09:32||   2021-05-28 09:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors steps down from in movement
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-28 10:32||   2021-05-28 10:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks to Black Lives Matter money she now owns 4 of her own plantations.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-05-28 10:58||   2021-05-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#16 ...remember kids, even in Marxist societies, there are 1%ers.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-28 15:06||   2021-05-28 15:06|| Front Page Top

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