Comment Re:All Relevant Questions (Score 5, Informative) 869
Is it wrong to mock cities who suffer skyrocketing crime after praising the idea of defunding the police, and hamstringing them during riots?
Crime rose across cities and states in 2020 (and to a lesser degree, 2021). The rise in crime hit red and blue states both, and it hit blue cities that didn't decrease their PD's funding (as well as those that actually INCREASED funding). It was largely a function of high school age kids not being in school and people being out of work. If you want to shit on a policy for increasing crime, it wasn't defund, it was closing schools longer than they needed to be closed.
