After fighting city council members last year, Washington, D.C.’s mayor is the latest Democrat to demand more police officers when shots ring out, but a veteran law enforcement officer says it’s a little late for the nation’s capital.
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced this week she wants 170 more officers on the Metropolitan Police roll call. That request comes after the city council took a hatchet to the police budget last year — over Mayor Bowser’s objections — and now the murder rate has jumped 20% over a two-year span.
All totaled, the Metropolitan Police Budget was cut approximately $10 million last year.
New York City, Oakland, Baltimore and Los Angeles are among the other cities that are refunding the defunding because of out-of-control crime.Randy Sutton of Law Enforcement News Network says you can’t just put that genie back in the bottle.“It’s too little too late,” he tells One News Now. “You can’t […]
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