NO SURPRISE: Crime Soaring In Cities With Defunded Police Departments

Crime is soaring in cities where police departments have been defunded, reports Fox News.

Movements to defund the police have grown since George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis. Defunding means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality.

More than 20 major cities have reduced their police budgets in some form, though the scale and circumstances vary.

The results have not fared well in Los Angeles, Oakland, New York City, Portland and Austin. Homicides in Oakland, California, have risen 314 percent compared with the same time last year and law enforcement has seen a 113 percent increase in firearms assaults.

Violent crime surged in 2020 in Minneapolis following Floyd’s death, and murders have risen by 46 percent between Dec. 11, 2020 through March 28 of this year, compared to the same period last year.

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