From Fox News: Blue cities that lost historic numbers of police officers beginning in 2020 have yet to recover due to far-left, anti-police policies, a top leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) said.
“Police officers aren’t stupid,” Joe Gamaldi, the FOP’s vice president, told Fox News Digital. “They realize that their far-left city councils and mayors will throw them under the bus at any opportunity.”
He referenced several cities where staffing numbers have fallen “off a cliff” since 2020, including Chicago, New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
President Donald Trump earlier this month federalized the capital’s police force and has hinted at takeovers in other cities in an effort to combat violent crime, a move which Gamaldi supports.
Democrats have howled in protest over Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., denouncing his efforts to clean up the city.
But Gamaldi said, “It is absolute lunacy to me that there are people actually pushing back on making our communities safer. I mean, we have D.C. who hasn’t had a homicide in 11 days. We haven’t seen that in generations. We should be celebrating this. This is a huge victory.”
Gamaldi explained that the anti-police movement that escalated amid the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 started a mass exodus of police officers from Democrat-led cities.
“Of course, you’d be packing your bags, and that’s why we’re seeing a mass migration of police officers, because they’re actually leaving these far-left cities that don’t support them, or politicians that don’t support them, for communities that actually will,” Gamaldi explained.
The report notes that since January 2020, Chicago has lost 1,554 officers, while Baltimore lost 500 officers and Los Angeles lost 1,114 officers over the approximate same time period.
The NYPD is also down about 2,500 officers from where they were five years ago.
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