{"id":955029,"date":"2021-11-02T18:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=955029"},"modified":"2021-11-02T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:28:52","slug":"mayoral-candidates-turn-backs-to-black-lives-matter-movement-promise-law-and-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayoral-candidates-turn-backs-to-black-lives-matter-movement-promise-law-and-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral Candidates Turn Backs To Black Lives Matter Movement, Promise \u2018Law And Order\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\">26<\/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%2Fmayoral-candidates-turn-backs-to-black-lives-matter-movement-promise-law-and-order%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=955029&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--><p>Candidates running in Tuesday\u2019s mayoral elections across the U.S. have promised to \u201ccrackdown\u201d on crime in the aftermath of violent crime surges that swept through major American cities.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates, including Democrats, have stepped away from the Black Lives Matter movement\u2019s calls to defund police departments in response to the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/05\/rookie-officers-george-floyd-police-derek-chauvin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd<\/a>, as crime rises in cities and the public demands traditional policing strategies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/10\/30\/crime-mayors-races\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3527b30%2F617ec10b9d2fda9d412eba72%2F6026f6c19bbc0f73f6562394%2F43%2F72%2F617ec10b9d2fda9d412eba72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>A Tuesday Pew Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/10\/26\/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> revealed that 47% of Americans want to increase funding toward police departments, while 15% want to decrease funds. In response, mayoral candidates have made public safety a major component of their campaigns, the Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Miami Beach mayoral candidate Dan Gelber is calling for a ban on the sale of alcohol at bars after 2 a.m. in order to control the surge in gun violence and unruly behavior, according to the outlet. Gelber promised to \u201ccrackdown\u201d on crime in the city and show that they are tough on crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy residents are saying \u2018we need to crackdown,\u2019 or \u2018we need to have zero tolerance,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7313720\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7313720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People carry signs during a \u201cDefund the Police\u201d march from King County Youth Jail to City Hall in Seattle, Washington on August 5, 2020. (Photo by Jason Redmond \/ AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York City Mayoral candidate Eric Adams\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/ericadams2021.net\/erics-safety-plan\/#safety-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign website<\/a> declares that the city \u201cneeds the NYPD [New York Police Department] and is pushing to reform the police departments by adding greater diversity, create an intelligence committee and publicize a list of cops that have been reported by their colleagues for bad behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Adams\u2019s campaign also proposed removing \u201coverly aggressive\u201d officers and targeting shooters with trained police tactics, according to the website. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/25\/larry-hogan-refund-police-baltimore-maryland-defund-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Larry Horan-Aligned Group Launches New \u2018Refund Police\u2019 Ad Campaign Against Democrat Pushback)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, who has been in office since 2017, has faced backlash from progressive candidates on his handling of the city\u2019s police department, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/31\/politics\/mayoral-races-general-election\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to CNN. A handful of critics believe that Frey has issued \u201cover-policing\u201d in the city since Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The city ballot\u2019s \u201cQuestion 2\u201d is proposing an amendment that would remove the police department from the city\u2019s charter and replace it with a newly created Department of Public Safety, the outlet reported. If the measure passed, it would eliminate a &nbsp;requirement to employ a minimum number of officers in the city and the department would be in charge of employing more officers if they chose to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Frey, an opponent of Question 2, argued that Minneapolis has one of the lowest numbers of officers per capita of any major U.S. city and that it is in the city\u2019s best interest to hire more officers to combat crimes, the outlet reported. The city slashed its Minneapolis Police Department budget by approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/defund-police-cities-crime-rates-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$7.7 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Buffalo\u2019s race, Democratic incumbent Mayor Byron Brown has been criticized by Democratic Socialist India Walsh for proposing to cut $7.5 million from the police budget and eliminate police department positions through attrition and reducing overtime, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Boston\u2019s mayoral candidates councilor-at-large Annissa Essaibi George and Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu differ on proposals to reallocate the Boston Police Department\u2019s budget funding to address the root causes of crime, the outlet reported. George argues that the department needs 300 more officers and opposes the idea, while Wu proposes turning non-violent 911 calls over to response teams and civilian personnel to handle certain issues.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Hansford, executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University, said Black Lives Matter has faded as a political influence in major cities, according to the outlet. He said the movement is struggling with its leadership structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat lack of cohesion, what does it is, it means you cannot come up with a counter-strategy that everyone can agree on, and you can\u2019t come up with a long-term strategy,\u201d Hansford said. \u201cWe always knew there would be a pushback to changing policing, but what is surprising is how quickly Democrats are back to a law-and-order narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Major U.S. cities defunded their police departments in response to Black Lives Matter\u2019s demands with a simultaneous rise in crime rates. The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/violent-crime-surge-black-lives-matter-police-accountability-minneapolis-george-floyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murders<\/a> increased by 36.7% in 2020 in comparison to 2019 throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/violent-crime-surge-black-lives-matter-police-accountability-minneapolis-george-floyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020<\/a>, violent crime increased in Minneapolis by 17% in low-income neighborhoods and 30% in high-income neighborhoods. New York City murder rates rose by 39.2% in 2020 in comparison to the previous year, and by 19.4% in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates running in Tuesday\u2019s mayoral elections across the U.S. have promised to \u201ccrackdown\u201d on crime in the aftermath of violent crime surges that swept through major American cities.Candidates, including Democrats, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955029","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\/955029","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955029\/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=955029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}