Democrats are always talking about defunding the police.
This narrative has significantly impacted police morale, not to mention the actual reallocation of funding.
St. Louis is one of those cities.
It is also a city that is now struggling to hold on to its police officers.
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St. Louis is regularly one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
While this is happening, it has fewer officers to patrol the cities.
To that point, since 2017, the city has lost 819 officers.
The stats over the most recent years are even more troubling.
The department started with 1,205 officers in 2020.
That declined to 1,198 in 2021 and 1,128 at the start of 2022.
Today, there are only 1,035 commissioned staffers on the force.
With low morale and struggling recruiting, the city is in a crisis situation.
Mayor Tishaura Jones lives in a dream world, believing they have enough police to man the streets.
Her campaign website reads, “defunding the police does not mean abolishing the police.
It means “restructuring the department and reallocating the budget to programs and resources that actually prevent crime.”
Sounds a lot like the attitude of Rep. Cori Bush (R-MO) who continues to push defunding police while at the same time spending half a million on her own security.
Source: Fox News
