{"id":969231,"date":"2021-11-04T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969231"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:59:00","slug":"police-union-nationwide-draconian-defund-the-police-proposals-unlikely-after-failed-minneapolis-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-union-nationwide-draconian-defund-the-police-proposals-unlikely-after-failed-minneapolis-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Union: Nationwide \u2018Draconian\u2019 Defund the Police Proposals Unlikely After Failed Minneapolis Vote"},"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\">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%2Fpolice-union-nationwide-draconian-defund-the-police-proposals-unlikely-after-failed-minneapolis-vote%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=969231&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\/11\/GettyImages-1218833810-e1636061214323-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">\u201cDraconian\u201d defund the police efforts are unlikely to succeed anywhere in the country after voters in Minneapolis&nbsp;overwhelmingly rejected a defund initiative in Tuesday\u2019s election, according to the&nbsp;Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe, by and large, that ship has sailed,\u201d said&nbsp;Jim Pasco, the executive director of the FOP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/police-union-defund-the-police-minneapolis-d63a04da-c6fd-4ffd-b2da-a32f01667a60.html\">according<\/a> to Axios, in response to the failed effort backed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and other leftists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Minneapolis\u2019s defeated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/02\/minneapolis-votes-no-abolish-police-despite-ilhan-omar\/\">proposal<\/a>&nbsp;asked if the city charter for the&nbsp;Minneapolis Police Department&nbsp;should be amended and replaced&nbsp;with a Department of Public Safety.&nbsp;In turn, by doing this, the city would have&nbsp;eliminated the minimum police staffing requirement as well as the position of police chief. The&nbsp;proposal was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/minneapolis-police-ballot-question-results\">defeated<\/a> 57 percent to 43 percent on the ballot after all voting&nbsp;precincts finished reporting.<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>While the efforts to defund the police in Minneapolis on Tuesday were defeated, crime had dramatically increased over the country last year. In an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) exclusively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/02\/exclusive-sen-tom-cotton-democrats-criminal-leniency-policies-sparked-an-undeniable-crime-wave\/\">published<\/a> at Breitbart News, he outlined recent data from the&nbsp;Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) showing the skyrocketing numbers of crime happening across the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of murders rose by 29 percent, drug overdose deaths&nbsp;increased 30 percent, and the number of gang-related killings skyrocketed more than 55 percent,\u201d Cotton wrote. \u201cTo put this carnage into context, a <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-releases-2020-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">29 percent increase<\/a> in murder isn\u2019t simply bad, it\u2019s the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/09\/27\/fbi-reports-2020-murder-surge-biggest-single-year-jump\/5886792001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">worst single-year increase<\/a> in American history.\u201d Cotton outlined that the crime also rose exponentially:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"25.837526959022\">\n<p>The number of assaults <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-releases-2020-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">rose<\/a> by 12 percent last year and criminal assailants committed nearly 75,000 more violent crimes than they committed in 2019. Although the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-releases-2019-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">total number<\/a> of property crimes fell, the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-releases-2020-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">total cost<\/a> of those crimes rose by nearly $2 billion. Recorded cases of arson also rose by nearly <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov\/pages\/explorer\/crime\/crime-trend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">35 percent<\/a>, a trend that is likely associated with last summer\u2019s BLM riots, which were the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">most destructive<\/a> in American history.<\/p>\n<p>In Democrat-dominated cities, violent crime rose far more than the national average. Last year,&nbsp;murder rose <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">50 percent in Chicago<\/a>, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/p0106a\/overall-crime-new-york-city-reaches-record-low-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">44 percent in New York<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/citythinkblog\/lapd-crime-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">38 percent in Los Angeles<\/a>. The murder rate in Baltimore was <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/07\/the-only-good-soros-prosecutor-is-a-defeated-soros-prosecutor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">higher<\/a> than El Salvador\u2019s or Guatemala\u2019s&nbsp;\u2014 nations from which citizens can <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/07\/the-only-good-soros-prosecutor-is-a-defeated-soros-prosecutor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">claim asylum<\/a> purely based on gang violence and murder.<\/p>\n<p>Initial estimates also reveal evidence of a shrinking American police presence. Even though the FBI gathered data from over 100 additional law-enforcement agencies than it <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-releases-2019-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">did in 2019<\/a>, it <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-releases-2020-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">estimated<\/a> 1,000 fewer police officers. This isn\u2019t surprising; 86 percent of police chiefs&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/police-recruitment-crisis?wallit_nosession=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">report<\/a> being&nbsp;short-staffed. Between April 2020 and April 2021, the rate of hiring in mid-sized departments&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policeforum.org\/workforcesurveyjune2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dropped&nbsp;<\/a>29 percent and plummeted 36 percent in large departments.&nbsp;Equally concerning, initial data shows that the number of police killed by criminals has <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov\/pages\/le\/leoka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">increased 46 percent<\/a> compared to this time last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FOP, which is&nbsp;one of the largest&nbsp;police unions representing 356,000 officers, also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GLFOP\/status\/1455217480989880324?s=20\">indicted<\/a> this week that&nbsp;violence against law enforcement has risen, noting that \u201cambush-style\u201d attacks are up by 139 percent since last year, showing that 109 officers have been shot in 86 of the \u201cambush-style\u201d attacks. The union also included statistics showing so far this year 281 officers have been shot and 52 officers have been killed by gunfire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.592783505155\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8NEW REPORT \u27a1\ufe0f The violence against the brave men and women of law enforcement continues. Ambush-Style Attacks on officers are up 139% from 2020 (YTD). So far this year:<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f 281 Officers Shot<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f 52 Officers Killed by Gunfire<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f 109 Officers Shot in 86 Ambush-style Attacks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8w2dz6sO3v\">pic.twitter.com\/8w2dz6sO3v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) (@GLFOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GLFOP\/status\/1455217475927281670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor months, the media has tried to deny and downplay this disaster because they know Democrat mayors, progressive prosecutors, and liberal governors are to blame,\u201d Cotton also explained.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/defund-the-police-movement-collapses-across-americas-most-liberal-cities\/\">reported,<\/a> \u201cAcross the bluest of regions in the United States, the leftist rallying call to \u201cDefund the police\u201d collapsed on election night, as even the most liberal voters rejected such plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that, while&nbsp;Minneapolis rejected the ballot&nbsp;proposal, defund the police movement candidates failed across the country, in the mayoral and district attorney races in&nbsp;New York City, upstate New York, and Long Island; and in the City Attorney\u2019s race in Seattle,&nbsp;further showing that the \u201cship has sailed\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>However, some advocates supporting defunding the police, such as&nbsp;Black Visions, a Minnesota-based black LGBTQ group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/police-union-defund-the-police-minneapolis-d63a04da-c6fd-4ffd-b2da-a32f01667a60.html\">said<\/a>, \u201cDismantling and abolishing violent institutions and building and resourcing community safety strategies is and continues to be the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another group who supported the measure,&nbsp;TakeAction Minnesota, said that the fight to defund the police is more significant than one election.<\/p>\n<p>Pasco noted that, to his knowledge, there are not any other proposals as bad as the one offered up in&nbsp;Minneapolis. However, his union would still monitor situations across the country if there are any other isolated incidents.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDraconian\u201d defund the police efforts are unlikely to succeed anywhere in the country after voters in Minneapolis\u00a0overwhelmingly rejected a defund initiative in Tuesday\u2019s election, according to the\u00a0Fraternal Order of Police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-969231","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\/969231","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969231\/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=969231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}