“Less police making less money means more random violence. Just ask the mothers of Detroit. I know one who hasn’t seen a cop in 5 months. That means no popsicles on the porch. Meanwhile, the biggest public works project in the Motor City is a jailhouse.”
~ Charlie LeDuff
Charlie LeDuff can tell you what will happen when the police are gone. It happened in Detroit, one of America’s most violent cities. They cut back the police force and funding during the 2014 bankruptcy.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Michigan journalist Charlie LeDuff told “The Story” Tuesday that Detroit should serve as a warning of what happens when a city chooses to “defund the police.”
“When we are talking about defunding police, which we did in Detroit because, remember, our famous bankruptcy [in 2013] that was balanced on the backs of the police officers and the firefighters and the paramedics, and the secretaries,” LeDuff told host Martha MacCallum. “We cut their wages and inflation cut more into their wages.
“It is not worth having the job,” LeDuff added. “We can’t find people to do the job. And I am telling you absolutely black lives matter, but children’s lives matter the most to all of us. And if we can’t keep them safe, we are not a society.”
The Sordid Effects
On Deadline Detroit last week, he wrote, the number of officers patrolling the Motor City’s streets has dropped by 20 percent from 2014 and half of those who remain have been on the job for fewer than five years.
“Funding for the police department has fallen 20 percent since then. Wages for police officers were cut 10 percent and have never recovered, accounting for inflation. Health benefits for retired officers were stripped away and pension payments deferred,” LeDuff wrote for Deadline.
He continued, “Consequently, Detroit is having severe problems attracting recruits and retaining cops. There are now 20 percent fewer officers patrolling the streets than in 2014. Half have less than five years on the job.”
Complaints against police over brutality are down 60%, but so is policing.
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Violent crime has exploded and arrests are down 40%. Police don’t bother with some neighborhoods in fear of their lives and careers.
“The biggest public works project in Detroit since bankruptcy? A 2,000-bed jailhouse,” LeDuff says.
KEEP TREATING OFFICERS BADLY AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS
The woman in this clip is a police officer and the left is accusing her of crying because of a McMuffin. They obviously missed the point. She is frightened that her food was being tampered with because she is an officer. Our officers are terrified by a nation that abandoned them. It is gonna be a fantastic nation for criminals when the good officers quit.
She’s trending on Twitter because the hateful left wants her gun and her badge taken away as they pretend she is crying over a muffin. They are mocking her, threatening her, and calling her names. That’s what Twitter allows to trend these days.
Stacey who has been a cop for 15 yrs went to @McDonalds She paid for it in advance and this is how she gets treated for being a cop😢😡 Come on America. We are better than this. pic.twitter.com/IcudsNfVLY
— 🌷🇺🇸Ann🇺🇸🌷🐇 (@tkag2020_ann) June 17, 2020
Cut them again,lots of them aren’t even doing anything to protect the people and children in Detroit.
I lived in Detroit at the time when the Renaissance Center was being built. It was suppose to revitalize the city economy and stimulate building activity. It did neither. This is not the first city that attempted “revitalizing” downtown property in order to spur economic growth. Seldom does it provide job opportunities for those in the urban center, instead it pulls in those from the suburbs. Once the day ends for those people the downtown areas are completely void of people and traffic. In the evenings there is a sense of complete abandonment. I’ve never forgotten when the film, The Warriors, came out. There is a foreboding scene when the streets are entirely empty before the big fight. It reflects a sense of dread of what is to come. That scene brought back memories driving in the early evening in the downtown area of Detroit. The eerie sense of ‘nothing’ creates that foreboding feeling.
That is what happens when these types of projects are created in downtown areas. During daytime hours the city is moving and seems, on the surface, to be a well designed project. What it HAS done is create a “divide” between city workers and city dwellers. The prosperity is for those who work there and none for those who live there. This begins the deterioration of the urban core and breeds resentment. These city leaders, as Coleman Young in Detroit, do not consider how it will reflect employment within the city but it does create more revenue for the city itself, and subsequently, more power. That Renaissance Center was an expansion project that required evicting many long-term residents in the neighborhood. It was downhill from there.
Good article. People should be ashamed. This officer should not have to worry about the safety of her food. Because of 1 bad apple all are persecuted. Not right. These officers should be held in high regard for the unsafe work environment society is no provideing.
What we’ve seen over the past 10 years with fast food workers tampering with food orders and even some sit down restaurant workers tampering with food and some’s treatment of conservatives tells me there are more bad apples in the restaurant industry than there are bad apples among law enforcement; deep state leftist goons in the FBI excluded.
Defunding Police means that law and order cannot be enforced. This means everyone has a right to murder, riot, plunder and destroy city blocks as well. It means you can steal guns for self protection and never to charged for a crime, going to court and jail. It also means big cities will have financial collapse and business may go to small towns or decide to go offshore to make American dependent and poor again. This is ALL the result of defunding law and order to create a Marxist racist society of murder, violence and genocide.