{"id":1435221,"date":"2022-04-13T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435221"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:15:07","slug":"enough-is-enough-dc-police-slam-local-politicians-for-soaring-crime-in-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enough-is-enough-dc-police-slam-local-politicians-for-soaring-crime-in-ad-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Enough Is Enough\u2019: DC Police Slam Local Politicians For Soaring Crime In Ad Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenough-is-enough-dc-police-slam-local-politicians-for-soaring-crime-in-ad-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The DC Police Union blamed local government policies for soaring crime rates and a decline in public safety in an ad campaign launched Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police Union sought one legislative goal: protect the rights of police officers to collectively bargain like all unions in the public and private sectors. Labor officials from local unions stood with us. Mendelson and Allen ignored our pleas,\u201d Greggory Pemberton, Chairman of the DC Police Union said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cThis week, the District lost another child to gunfire,\u201d said Pemberton. \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union attacked two city councilmen for cutting police funding and ignoring public safety experts amid a mass exodus of D.C. police officers in the thirty-second ad, which will run on television and in digital media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mother and her child are abducted at knife point, in yet another D.C. carjacking,\u201d a caption reads in the opening scene of the ad over what appears to be a video of the alleged crime. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/05\/dc-mayor-bowser-defund-police-hiring-911-response-times\/\">(RELATED: Ahead Of Election, DC Mayor Bowser Tries To Put \u2018Defund The Police\u2019 Behind Her)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s to blame for this crime wave? D.C. councilmembers Charles Allen and Phil Mendelson,\u201d the narrator says. \u201cTheir laws let criminals run free and prevent police from keeping us safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Patrick Mara, chairman of the D.C. Republican Committee, told the Daily Caller News Foundation the city council was catering to political interests rather than addressing the city\u2019s crime problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, our DC Council continues to pander to national liberal special interests as children die,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not their children though so tomorrow is yet another day for DC councilmembers to lean in to the far left on whatever new policy or idea they take up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/20\/dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-police-overtime-violence-guns-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homicides<\/a> rose 19% in 2020 while <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/01\/carjacking-teens-criminal-record-car-theft-violent-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carjacking<\/a> cases tripled and gun-related crimes are mostly commit by a small number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/crime-in-washington-d-c-is-driven-by-a-small-group-of-known-criminals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeat offenders<\/a>. The city\u2019s crime problem drove Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/05\/dc-mayor-bowser-defund-police-hiring-911-response-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">distance<\/a> herself from the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement and emphasize hiring more officers in the leadup to the next election.<\/p>\n<p>The ad states 670 officers left the D.C. police department from 2020 to 2021, and says the councilmen cut police funding. It also claims <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/crime-in-washington-d-c-is-driven-by-a-small-group-of-known-criminals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murders<\/a>, carjackings and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/house-oversight-republicans-mayor-bowser-provide-plan-address-violent-crime-washington-dc-nations-capital\/\">violent crimes<\/a> are the worst they have been in 20 years. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/14\/gunman-shot-homeless-men-new-york-washington\/\">(RELATED: Police Arrest Man Accused Of Randomly Shooting Sleeping Homeless People)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Police Union blamed local government policies for soaring crime rates and a decline in public safety in an ad campaign launched Wednesday.\u201cThe Police Union sought one legislative goal:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}