(12-22-2021, 11:00 AM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote:

(12-21-2021, 01:02 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: The leftist knee jerk movement is coming home to roost. The democrats are going to feel it in November. 

Vermont city deteriorates after defunding police, critics fear 'racist' label for speaking out | Fox News

A Vermont city is paying the price of slashing its police force by nearly 30% amid the defund the police movement that spread across the country in 2020.

"We’re in a situation that I think nobody wanted us to get to," Burlington Councilor Zoraya Hightower, who introduced defunding the police force last year, told NBC News.

Burlington, a majority White college town near the Canadian border, slashed its police force by almost 30% by attrition. Hightower’s resolution last year was partially written by an activist group called the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and included suggestions such as decreasing the number of officers from 105 to 74.

It also ended the school resource officer program and called for the money from that program to be directed to racial justice initiatives, NBC News reported. The resolution also called for the creation of a committee that would review "how to build a healthy and safe community and what institutions we need to reach that goal."

What soon followed was police officers leaving en masse, quality-of-life issues and problems with public safety. And consequently, virtually "no one" happy, the outlet reported.

"If you speak out against defunding the police force, you’re labeled a racist," business owner Mark Bouchett said. "Or at least an idiot that doesn’t understand the problem."

He added that he became concerned with the state of the city after female employees were afraid to walk to their cars at night following the resolution passing.

Some councilors reportedly assumed that slashing the force by attrition would unfold over years, but instead, cops left the force quickly. Burlington averaged about 95 active-duty officers before defunding, and now has only about 64, the outlet reported. Only five officers are able to patrol at night most of the time, according to acting Police Chief Jon Murad...

The Vermont racial justice alliance…

Is there a lot of Racial injustices happening in Vermont? Isn’t Ben and Jerry’s up there saving the day?

Apparently, they didn't sell enough "BLMmmmmm, Mm!"

Rather than debate a losing cause in the arena of ideals, they wrap everything in a cloak of race. Who cares that this hare-brained idea did not go to committee or even discussion, nor would it survive. If you disagree with the resolution, it's not because of its lack of integrity, it's simply because you're racist. Thus, we now have a bevy of liberal cities run by unqualified label mayors (and the U.S. Vice Presidency) with spiraling crime rates and rudderless leadership. Their ideas are bad only because those who disagree are racist.

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