Another Blue County Realizes Just How Wrong BLM Was Last Summer
Last year BLM and Antifa took to the streets, looting, vandalizing, partaking in numerous forms of violence, or as the MSM would out it "peacefully" protesting. So many blue leaders buckled to protester's "defund the police" movement and found that after slashing police budgets, crime rose drastically. Who would have thought... An L.A. County is now refunding the police as it appears they can no longer afford to pander to BLM's defund the police movement.
"In the first two months of 2021, Los Angeles Police Department officers have fielded 88% more reports of shots fired than the same time period in 2020. Gunshot victims in L.A. are up 141% versus last year, and homicides are up 39%, according to Crosstown, a nonprofit news organization based out of the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. There were 15 hate crimes reported in Los Angeles in 2020, up from seven reported in 2019, according to the Los Angeles Police Commission.
To combat the wave of violent crime, the California city has voted on Thursday to increase police funding. The Los Angeles County Metro, the area's public transportation agency, voted to increase police funding by $36 million. The additional funding will go to the Los Angeles Police Department, Long Beach Police Department, and Los Angeles Sherriff's Department. Law enforcement had originally asked for $111 million in more funding.
The extra funding passed with a unanimous 12-0 vote..."
They should never have been defunded in the first place. The whole movement was ridiculous and counterintuitive. If BLM/Antifa's purpose was to stop police brutality, they should have been asking for more training and funding for the police. But instead, they demanded to cut funds which actually forced police departments to cut funding to training and lower their standards as they can not afford as much. It also increased crime rates in the communities. So their "protests" only really benefitted criminals and considering how some of these rioters were acting, maybe that was the point. It's good to see that Liberal leaders are finally coming around to see how important the police are.