Carlisle to PBS: It’s Simply “Stupid Wokeness’” defund the police movement that turned the tide

Why the Dem strategy in Virginia failed, and how Youngkin flipped the state.

First the elections in Virginia, then rejection of defunding the Police in Minneapolis:

Just over a month after voters in Minneapolis shot down a proposal to eliminate the city’s police department, The Blaze is reporting that last week, the city approved $191 million for the police department, which restores its funding to nearly the level it was at prior to the George Floyd death Pat Drooney of Law Enforcement wrote.

Citing Minneapolis Star Tribune on Saturday, he wrotr

“Mayor Jacob Frey and the City Council last week agreed to a $1.6 billion budget that includes just over $191 million for the Police Department (MPD), restoring its funding to nearly the level it held before George Floyd was killed in 2020.”

According to the paper, the “urgency faded as crime surged and the ‘defund police’ message became a police liability.”

After the death of Floyd, attributed to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis saw a push to defund the department, along with the aforementioned proposal to abolish the department.

All of that changed after Minneapolis experienced a crime wave of near epic proportions, a malady suffered by a host of Democrat-run cities across the country.

Last June, nine of the city council’s members out of thirteen voted to begin the process of dismantling the police department.…The full Pat Drooney article by lawenforcementtoday

“What went wrong is just stupid wokeness. Don’t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Wash. I mean, this ‘defund the police’ lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln’s name off of schools. I mean that — people see that,” Carville said, The Hill.