The city of St. Louis recently voted to defund their police department millions of dollars and get rid of nearly 100 vacant officer positions. This from therightscoop.com.
Unsurprisingly, Cori Bush, the democrat congressional representative (St. Louis and northern St. Louis County MO) and the newest member of the gang of Justice Democrats, praises this vote to defund St. Louis police as the city is named the 7th most violent in the entire world. See THE BLAZE for further information.
“Today’s decision to defund the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is historic,” Bush said in a statement. “We are building a St. Louis where elected officials lead in partnership with activists, organizers, and our communities.”
Bush called for alternatives to police, such as “unarmed mental health professionals or social workers to respond to crisis calls.”
Odds are no one can truly be this ignorant. Bush is performing a function in violation of her oath to defend the constitution of the United States. She is not representing her constituents, she is taking orders from and operating under the direction of the Justice Democrats whose mission it is to radically transform the democrat party and America as a whole. This from ballotpedia.org and rollingstone.com.
A proposal to eliminate 98 vacant officer positions and reallocate $4 million of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s $171 million budget passed a vote last week. The proposition was passed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment by a 2-1 vote, with St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones (D) and Comptroller Darlene Green supporting the plan and Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed opposing the proposal. Fox News reported that the plan “now goes to the Board of Alderman, the legislative body of the city, for hearings and possible amendments, before it’s set to take effect July 1.”
“The plan moves $4 million out of the police department’s $171 million budget to go toward affordable housing, homeless services, a victims’ support program and civil rights litigators,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. “The police budget accounts for about 15% of total city spending.”
This is the same congresswoman who moved her office away from Marjorie Taylor Greene for her ‘safety’.
The story should be here that the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Force has 100 vacant positions, This speaks volumes about the police crisis this country is facing right now. But instead of defending officers and making the city more hospitable to them, the elected leaders of St. Louis are choosing to go the way of Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, and every other large city that sees anarchy as a more responsible tax base than successful business. And it’s the citizens of St. Louis who will pay for this with their lives. As the cliche so wisely states, “You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out.”
Note: The image above depicts Mark and Patricia McCloskey of St. Louis MO who live in a gated community and chose to stand their ground and protect their home rather than see it invaded by a riotous gang of protesters in June 2020. Police would not respond and the McCloskeys became convinced they had no other choice. The outcome: The McCloskeys saved their home but they have since suffered through months of legal ramifications as a democrat prosecutor has sought to make examples of them and their brave stand off of thuggishness. The McCloskeys are both attorneys and believed they had a right to defend their property.
“Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house was charged with a crime,” Mark McCloskey stated.
Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has been dismissed as the prosecutor in the case, according to court records. However, the McCloskeys were indicted in October 2020. For more information see stltoday.com.
With a diminished, defunded police force in St. Louis MO, can you imagine how often scenarios such as this will play out? Just another damn big city to by pass as quickly and with as much distance and speed as possible.
