'We should not defund': Democrats press Pelosi for vote on police funding

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — In an effort to address rising crime rates, 19 mostly moderate House Democrats are urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote soon on bipartisan legislation that would increase funding for police departments across the country.

“As national crime rates increase, including homicides, car jackings, and assaults, now is the time to support local law enforcement through passage of bipartisan, bicameral commonsense legislation,” the Democrats wrote Friday in a letter to Pelosi, D-Calif., that was first shared with NBC News.

The letter is the latest sign that Democrats, fighting to preserve their fragile majority this fall, are concerned about rising crime and the “defund the police” messaging from progressives that contributed to the party’s loss of 13 House seats in the 2020 election.

Two vulnerable moderate Democrats — Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chair Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Cindy Axne of Iowa — spearheaded the letter, which was also addressed to Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and the top Democrat and the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

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[Autumn]

1. Have police departments across the country been defunded?

[CrackityJones75]

2. people believe they have

[Autumn]

4. People also believe in Big Foot. Any instances of police departments being defunded and having to

beg for funding? Cause ours is doing just fine.

[CrackityJones75]

5. I mean I am not saying they have.

Just saying that there are a lot of stupid people in this country that believe they have been defunded. MPLS suburbs are stock full of them here in MN.

[gratuitous]

3. A solution in search of a problem

The squawking about defunding the police is particularly loud here in Portland, but the fact of the matter is that funding for the police bureau has increased. Doesn't stop any of the nitwits from whining about it, though.

[TheRealNorth]

6. Any criticism of the police is now "defunding"

The cops in Brooklyn Center threatened to arrest someone for filming them. The person filming them just happened to be Daunte Wright's mother. She had pulled over to the shoulder on the opposite side of the State Highway to film them, and one of the cops crossed the highway because he didn't like that he was being filmed.

I was willing to give the Brooklyn Center cops the benefit of the doubt that the killing of Daunte Wright was an accident, but then they act like fucking Brown Shirts. These cops were pushing the State government to release the names and addresses of all Covid-19 cases to them, because it was too much to ask them to wear a mask and take fucking universal precautions.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. "Defund the Police" is an idiotic slogan that hurt Democrats in the 2020 races

I personally support reforms to the police. I worked hard and we got a good Democrat elected as District Attorney in my county two years ago and this cycle we got a good man elected as sheriff of my county. Our new DA has made a tremendous amount of difference in my county and I believe that the new Sheriff will also help. However, it is clear that we lost races that we should not have lost Defund the police was used very effectively by the GOP in down ballot races. A good number of races that Democrats should have won were lost due to this issue.

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The GOP ran a ton of ads using this issue

Sure enough, Republicans saw an opportunity. Painting Democrats as supporters of “defunding” the police became the focus of campaign literature, TV and digital ads, and live televised debates. That forced Democratic candidates to divert resources that might otherwise be used discussing COVID-19 relief, health care or education to be used disavowing themselves from the slogan and otherwise defending themselves.

Out of 31 broadcast TV ads that Trump and other allied campaign groups used to attack Biden and other Democrats for being soft on law and order, 11 spots ― that aired a total of 77,647 times ― explicitly mentioned “defund the police,” according to an analysis Kantar Media/CMAG conducted for HuffPost. And out of 216 Republican broadcast TV ads in congressional races blasting Democrats, 157 spots that aired 103,000 times used the phrase.

I was disappointed to seen Susan Collins re-elected. It seems that Collins was able to use the "defund the police" issue very effectively

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and the GOP’s Senate campaign arm hit her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, in a TV ad for links to a “defund the police” billionaire. The basis for the ad was Gideon’s attendance at a fundraiser hosted by an environmental coalition that includes NextGen America. NextGen, funded by liberal billionaire Tom Steyer, supports defunding the police