{"id":569923,"date":"2021-06-21T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569923"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:52:19","slug":"former-obama-task-force-member-says-rise-in-crime-is-fault-of-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-obama-task-force-member-says-rise-in-crime-is-fault-of-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Obama Task Force Member Says Rise In Crime Is \u2018Fault Of The Police\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fformer-obama-task-force-member-says-rise-in-crime-is-fault-of-the-police%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=569923&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3089078D-F40F-4AA0-B619-5E206A269165_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham on Monday claimed the police are to blame for the rise of crime in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cunningham, formerly a part of <span class=\"s1\">President Obama\u2019s <\/span>Task Force on 21st Century Policing<span class=\"s1\"> and the <\/span>Ferguson Commission, spoke about the reason for the rise in crime and the Black Lives Matter movement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think it\u2019s important to begin with the simple fact that all of us \u2014and I do mean all of us \u2014 want safer communities,\u201d Cunningham\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1406987725899800578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1406987725899800578%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-contributor-recent-crime-wave-nyc-fault-police\"><span class=\"s2\">said<\/span><\/a>. \u201cEveryone wants and deserves to be able to walk out of their home, walk freely on the street, play with their child and ensure that everyone is safe while doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBut what we also know to be true is that defunding the police is not just about taking money out of an institution that continues to prove ineffective. It\u2019s also about refunding the people,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s about ensuring that the services that people need to ensure safe communities from the ground up are actually being funded and resourced to their full capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think that there are a lot of police unions and GOP operatives that would like for us to believe that this recent crime wave has everything to do with this idea of defunding the police,\u201d Cunningham went on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBut guess what, Stephanie? The police haven\u2019t been defunded,\u201d she said, discussing law enforcement spending in the 50 largest U.S. cities and saying their law enforcement general expenditures went up from 13.6% to 13.7%, as portrayed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2021-city-budget-police-funding\/\"><span class=\"s2\">report<\/span><\/a> from Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\">As Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-contributor-recent-crime-wave-nyc-fault-police\"><span class=\"s4\">reported<\/span><\/a>, that same Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2021-city-budget-police-funding\/\"><span class=\"s4\">report<\/span><\/a><\/span> said those cities \u201creduced their 2021 police budgets by 5.2% in aggregate.\u201d Cunningham also notably didn\u2019t focus on the fact that many of the largest cities in the United States were also at the center of Black Lives Matter protests and riots last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis rise in crime is not the fault of the movement. It\u2019s actually the fault of the police and this has been our point all along,\u201d Cunningham said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhy should we keep funding systems and institutions that keep rendering themselves ineffective?\u201d she asked. \u201cWe should be talking about gun control, livable wages, fair housing, education. That\u2019s where we should be moving the money to to ensure truly safe streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2950819672131\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Defund the Police activist &#038; MSNBC contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsPackyetti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MsPackyetti<\/a>: Rising crime in NYC isn\u2019t the fault of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DefundThePolie?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DefundThePolie<\/a> movement; &#8220;it\u2019s actually the fault of the police&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ki9EX1Q1R\">pic.twitter.com\/3ki9EX1Q1R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1406987725899800578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Defunding the police is an increasingly unpopular mantra, especially among many voters who are against the idea. As anti-police rhetoric increases and crime in cities goes up, many voters are beginning to distance themselves from the idea of cutting police funding.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A USA Today\/Ipsos poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/03\/07\/usa-today-ipsos-poll-just-18-support-defund-police-movement\/4599232001\/\"><span class=\"s2\">released<\/span><\/a> in March showed that \u201c[o]nly 18% of respondents supported the movement known as \u2018defund the police,\u2019 and 58% said they opposed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voters appear to be possibly moving towards more pro-police candidates, even in Democratic races. The top contender in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary race is Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/21\/eric-adams-holds-strong-lead-in-nyc-mayoral-race-poll\/\"><span class=\"s2\">New York Post<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A release accompanying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/news-polls\/Adams-leads-but-ranked-choice-voting\"><span class=\"s2\">data<\/span><\/a> said, \u201cWhen asked who is best able to handle the major issues affecting New York City, Adams has a clear lead over the rest of the candidates on the issue of crime and public safety,\u201d adding, \u201c[w]hen asked who is best able to handle the major issues affecting New York City, Adams has a clear lead over the rest of the candidates on the issue of crime and public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The shift comes at a time when police officers are leaving the service in droves, creating a problem that might make defunding the departments unnecessary, but for the wrong reasons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/11\/us\/police-retirements-resignations-recruits.html\"><span class=\"s2\">reported<\/span><\/a> last week, the number of police officers retiring and leaving the force went up last year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>According to the Times, \u201cA survey of about 200 police departments indicates that retirements were up by 45 percent and resignations by 18 percent in the period between April 2020 and April 2021, when compared with the preceding 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe have lost about one-third of our staff to resignation and retirement,\u201d said Chief David Zack of the Asheville Police Department in North Carolina. \u201cCertainly with the way that police have been portrayed and vilified in some cases, they have decided that it is not the life for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham on Monday claimed the police are to blame for the rise of crime in New York City.Cunningham, formerly a part of President Obama\u2019s Task Force &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280916,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3089078D-F40F-4AA0-B619-5E206A269165_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Former Obama Task Force Member Says Rise In Crime Is \u2018Fault Of The Police\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3089078D-F40F-4AA0-B619-5E206A269165_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Former Obama Task Force Member Says Rise In Crime Is \u2018Fault Of The Police\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569923","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}