The newly arrived radical leftist mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, the city with the worst murder rate in America, is committed to leaving her constituents at the mercy of violent criminals by defunding the local police department and shutting down one of the city's two jails.
In a May 23 tweet he whined as follows: "Warrants issued for non violent or victimless crimes should not be a death sentence for black people. Police in the US are the equivalence [sic] of slave patrols[,]" he wrote, embracing a lie promoted by the 1619 Project.
"Most of the warrants the police serve are not for violent crimes so there is no reason to shoot at a person fleeing."
"More police doesn't prevent crime," Jones told The Telegraph.
The mayor wants to cut $4 million from the police department's budget and give it to social workers and civil rights bureaucrats.
St. Louis Interim Public Safety Director Daniel Isom seems to agree, saying historically there has been an overemphasis on using police to fight crime.
As crime begins to spiral out of control in communities they have caused to be under-policed, the Left will come up with excuses: the police budget wasn't cut enough; not enough money was blown on welfare; Republicans sabotaged the policies; or maybe toxic masculinity or "Whiteness" somehow poisoned the atmosphere.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/st-louis-mayor-guts-police-matthew-vadum/
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