WPXI Channel 11 out of Pittsburgh reports that police will no longer be responding to calls that are not deemed to be “in-progress emergencies,” meaning theft, harassment, criminal mischief, and burglary alarms will essentially be ignored.
Such calls will Instead be redirected to an answer machine, according to the report which also notes that from 3 am to 7 am, the city’s six police stations will operate without desk officers present.
Only around 20 officers will be available for overnight shifts to cover the entire city, the report further notes, stating that the decision has been taken due to “understaffing.”
Responding to the development, Councilman Anthony Coghill told Channel 11 “When it comes to harassment and things of this nature, you better have a police officer there. That’s what the public expects. That’s what I expect out of our city.”
Police Chief Larry Scirotto has said that he wants to cut the call volume from approximately 200,000 calls per year down to about 50,000 and that the changes are neccessary.
Pittsburgh has essentially been a victim of a defund the police mentality, with the municipal city council having last year approved the a budget that called for a reduction in police staffing.
Police enforcement is at an all-time low, according to city reports, with arrests in the city having dropped from over 18,000 in 2013 to 6,710 in 2022. Traffic stops also dropped from close to 29,000 in 2013 to a record-low 6,883 in 2022. Meanwhile, violent crime has risen since 2019.
Pittsburgh City Councilman Ricky Burgess sponsored a bill that banned the city’s police officers from making “traffic stops for minor offenses.” According to reports “the controversial legislation was created to make traffic stops more ‘equitable and fair.’”
In 2020, the council also passed five reform bills that effectively hampered police from doing their jobs.
How is defunding the police working out for Pittsburgh?
— PitunisWorld 🌎 (@ScMesab) February 27, 2024
Remember the bill they passed I believe in 2020?!
Great job! 22 officers for over 300k people. That’s going to work out great!
Elections have consequences.
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh City Council passed five bills aimed… https://t.co/6ksaWRyL0G
Data has shown that the ‘Defund the Police’ movement fueled more crime, particularly in mid-sized cities.
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Since more crime will take place with fewer people reporting it and fewer arrested and prosecuted the communist-democrats will state that based on the latest statistics crime has been significantly reduced under their leadership.
they’ve been doing that since the 80s and even 60s. Nothing to do with police funding. Pretty sure philly in the 90s used this very method to increase police funding because they said their “new” tactics were working so give us more money. Mean while they refused to take rape claims and tell victims nah we got to file this under disorderly conduct not rape because that would hurt our stats. How’d that work out? Just like all other police funding. People are shockingly ignorant of history.
hmmm love fake news like this. Police here are well funded. They will happily selectively enforce the law as they see fit… aka nothings changed for the past 30+ years. Loving the socialist’s tears as government is showing its true colors and minor cuts are made to government programs. Yes more money for the law enforcement so they can hunt down Jan 6ers and help human traffic slaves across the borders. You socialist trash are a joke. Cutting 90% of government spending wouldn’t be enough. Zero police FULL 2nd amendment as the founders intended.
Let me be the first to say;
“Banana Republic”🍌
“Three-Ring Circus” 🙈🙉🙊
“Clown Show” 🤡
and
”Shithole” 💩
And here are our lovely flags;
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This is actually a good thing because the people who mostly need police in the shitholes they create will be the ones who become victims of living in the shitholes they create. Low crime areas will do just fine while in high crime areas the criminals will just wipe each other out.
It’s terrible that some innocent law-abiding citizens will be effected, but hopefully the purge won’t take long.
(HUGE face palm)