You can’t afford not to fund police. In the past three weeks, Mayor DeBlasio of New York slashed the city’s police budget by thirty million dollars,. In the aftermath of the riots and looting in the past month, scores of police around the country in New York, L.A., DC, Chicago, and Atlanta have quit.
What happened in all of these cities? With a diminished police presence, crime spiked. Do you know who suffered the most? People in minority neighborhoods.
Take a look at what happened in Seattle. Originally they were protesting police brutality. That’s fine.
Then they took over six bocks and walled themselves in, declaring their own police-free zone. No need for police, we’ll police ourselves. Before it was over, two black youths shot dead.
Yes, there needs to be police reform. I couldn’t agree more. But take away the police, you’ll have massive spikes in murders, anarchy, and eventually vigilantism, because people will take the law in their own hands.