{"id":576203,"date":"2021-06-29T10:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576203"},"modified":"2021-06-29T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:06:09","slug":"oakland-police-chief-speaks-out-after-city-council-votes-to-defund-police-dept-by-18-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-police-chief-speaks-out-after-city-council-votes-to-defund-police-dept-by-18-4m\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Police chief speaks out after city council votes to defund police dept. by $18.4M"},"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\">30<\/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%2Foakland-police-chief-speaks-out-after-city-council-votes-to-defund-police-dept-by-18-4m%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=576203&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 id=\"attachment_2440042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2440042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Saturday, June 19, 2021, photo, officers work the scene of a shooting in Oakland, Calif. A 22-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in Oakland near the city\u2019s Juneteenth celebration, though it wasn\u2019t known whether the violence was connected with the event, police said. (Dylan Bouscher\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:57 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, June 29, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Oakland City Council voted to defund their police department and strip away another $18.4 million from their budget. The council approved the measure in a seven-to-two vote last week, which will go into effect within the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>This decision came despite the fact that the homicide rate skyrocketed more than 314 percent after the initial budget cut. While displeased with the vote, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe find ourselves in a crisis. We find ourselves reeling from a weekend of violence where we have seen four homicides over a three-day period. It now has us currently at 65 homicides for the year \u2014 that\u2019s a 90 percent increase compared to last year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks about rising crime in his city and the city council cutting millions away from his department\u2019s budget:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we find ourselves in a crisis\u2026Crime is out of control in the city of Oakland.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lcZ9kbNUFN\">pic.twitter.com\/lcZ9kbNUFN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1409657062682808326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Political members like Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has also spoken out against the vote while warning the force could lose up to 50 officer positions at a time where there\u2019s an epidemic of violence.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/democrats-refusal-to-maintain-calif-water-infrastructure-leaving-residents-high-and-dry\/\">Democrats\u2019 Refusal To Maintain Calif. Water, Infrastructure Leaving Residents High And Dry<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Saturday, June 19, 2021, photo, officers work the scene of a shooting in Oakland, Calif. 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