Dems regret falling for BLM defund the police movement

 Washington Examiner:

It was short, and it wasn’t sweet.

The Democratic Party’s quest to defund police forces, an act in which it kowtowed to its hard-left-wing base, has come to a very bitter end. The resulting surge in violent crime has produced a massive public backlash that threatens the careers of elected Democrats throughout the nation. Naturally, the endangered species is trying to distance itself swiftly from the wreckage that “defund the police” has left behind.

The mayors of Portland and Seattle, who respectively slashed police funding by $15 million and $7.5 million last year, are now moving to restore those budgets amid spikes in violent crime made worse because police officers are choosing to retire rather than stay where their work is scorned by their employers.

Something similar is happening in Chicago, where last year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot demanded that the police force leave vacant positions unfilled as part of a broader drive to cut police budgets. Lightfoot now faces a 60% increase in murders since 2019 , and suddenly, she sees the light — the police are not expendable, and the thin blue line between chaos and order cannot be allowed to get any thinner.

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Throwing Democrats out of office is a good start in dealing with the crime explosion they facilitated.  Defunding the police was such an obviously stupid idea that only extreme liberals who also backed the BLM riots would support it.  They mistook BLM for the attitudes of blacks in general who support and need police protection.  BLM does not represent blacks in America.  It is a criminal support group that throws a tantrum when a black criminal is hurt or killed while wrongfully resisting arrest.  That is the essence of the group that liberals have lavishly funded.  What they should have been doing is telling the idiots not to resist arrest.

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