BLM/Defund Movement Is Causing Minorities Police Officers To Resign
The Defund The Police movement seems to be doing exactly what the Leftists wanted. The police have been defunded in many cities across the nation and crime is on the up. In Portland, Oregon the police are still abandoning ship including many people of color who are taking jobs that pay less just to get away from these overbearing libs.
"Chief Chuck Lovell recently announced that the Portland Police Bureau would be moving the vast majority of traffic cops and all its K-9 officers to respond to 911 calls. The goal: to deal with a wave of retirements and resignations and combat historically low response times this past year.
What Lovell didn’t say is that for the first time that anyone can remember, the number of people resigning has outstripped retirements.
While 14 officers have filed papers to retire by the end of January, nine officers have resigned since November, and seven more have filed to resign shortly.
The police bureau has been paying overtime to cover the BLM and Antifa riots by using budget money from unfilled jobs, but they’ve had to cut those vacancies because of the Leftist groups’ demand for defunding the cops. Portland has gone back and forth about defunding the police budget by at least $15 million, but has plans for $10 million in cuts for 2021, according to The Tribune.
The cutbacks have had a ripple effect. Hiring has been put on hold and the vacant jobs are staying unfilled. The assistant chief in charge of the bureau’s human resources, Michael Frome, told the Tribune that they’re not at a crisis point. Yet."
So do Libs mean only Black people that are not cops matter? This is what seems to be the case. Crime rates are skyrocketing, all because liberals thought they knew better so they attacked the police over a bad apple. But what did that accomplish? Now 9-1-1 response rates are down, there are fewer police officers patrolling cities, crime rates are up, and people are struggling to get the help they need as liberals continue to suffocate the police. Seems like all this movement really did is hurt the Americans living in these Dem lead cities and force out good officers that could have helped them.