How Democrats went from defund to refund the police – By Alex Seitz-Wald (NBC News) / February 6, 2022
As crime rates rise ahead of the midterms, Black mayors of the nation’s largest cities are leading the call to crack down on lawlessness.
WASHINGTON — A young Democratic member of Congress declared the “defund the police” movement “dead” on Thursday, and Black Democratic mayors from San Francisco to New York, Chicago to Washington, D.C., are moving to increase police budgets and end “the reign of criminals.”
As violent crime surges ahead of the November midterms, President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are toughening their talk on crime, and refunding the police only two years after some progressive activists took up the call to defund them.
“People are still against crime and people want to be safe,” said former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in an interview. “You’re seeing in communities all across the country that when folks actually came to grips with the conflict of rising crime rates and an effort to quote unquote take away from policing, the public, being way ahead of the politicians as usual, figured out ‘no no no, that’s not a good idea, we want to be safe.’”
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