catastrophe that is the word being used by the DC police union their warning of a catastrophe is more

officers are turning in their badges the union president is blaming what every other union

president in the country is blaming for the officer shortage it is all because of the anti-police

reform bills that have been passed the defund and well not only to fund but walk away from police no

longer give them protections turn them into the worst people in the world it's the anti-police

movement of the socialist left now DC's mayor and police chief say they are focusing on the

newly announced summer crime initiative the police union pretty much laughed in the face of the

DC mayor and the police chief because they said we have such a massive increase a number of officers

who are turning in their badges pretty much good luck with this the union chairman in DC and I

use DC only as an example of whatever other every other liberal city is now dealing with that

has gone anti police defund the police Gregory Pimbleton points to the DC's council recently

passed police reform bill is the number one reason why the officers are leaving the force as fast

as they can quote what we're saying a lot of is people who are actually just turning in their badges

and gone and just walking away either from the Metropolitan Police Department or from law

enforcement in general and what we hear from these folks when they when they walk in and tell us

I'm gone is that they just don't feel like they have the support from their elected leadership

since June of 2020 DC police have lost 313 police officers to retirement

or resignation and the force has less than 3 300 officers now which they say is unprecedented

unprecedented impede has they say if you listen politicians more than enough people to do their

job the crime statistics show the complete opposite of that you want to know how bad it's gotten

in the nation's capital homicides are up 35% already compared the same time last year

even though overall crime they claim is down 17% in other words the violent crimes have gone

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