Only in America...

IFocus said:

"while property crimes continued a nearly two-decade decline, falling 7.8 per cent. Robbery and rape dropped 9.3 per cent and 12 per cent respectively."

Gun culture more likely, still cops turn up after the crime rather than before it, and did anyone actually defund police forces?

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sptrawler said:

I think I read some places did, but when I just googled it, they are saying a lot of the decisions have been reversed.

These US cities defunded police: 'We're transferring money to the community'

More than 20 major cities have reduced police budgets in some form, and activists are fighting to ensure that is only the start

www.theguardian.com

Cities Reverse Defunding the Police Amid Rising Crime

With an increase in crime, new funds from the economic revival and federal stimulus dollars, many U.S. cities are restoring previous cuts to police departments or are proposing to spend even more.

www.wsj.com

A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back (Published 2021)

The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime, the exodus of officers and political pressures.

www.nytimes.com

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IFocus said:

Didn't make sense at the time, police needed to change culture of just shooting people and getting away with it.

Still who would be a police officer in the US?

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"And here is the truth: The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He's done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country's interest and America's interest, and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution.

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"He can't accept he lost, even though that's what 93 United States senators, his own attorney-general, his own vice-president, governors and state officials in every battleground state have all said: He lost.
"That's what 81 million of you did as you voted for a new way forward.
"He has done what no president in American history — the history of this country — has ever, ever done: He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people."

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"While some courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming that party into something else. They seem no longer to want to be the party — the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Reagan, the Bushes.
"But whatever my other disagreements are with Republicans who support the rule of law and not the rule of a single man, I will always seek to work together with them to find shared solutions where possible. Because if we have a shared belief in democracy, then anything is possible — anything."

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basilio said:

President Biden has unleashed on "the former President" during the January 6th memorial in the US to remember the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election results. He's finally baring his teeth.



Biden also called out the Republican party for failing to stamp out falsehoods about the 2020 election.

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Humid said:

Hows the Dow doing

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moXJO said:

You should go all in. It's as safe as subprime houses.

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Humid said:

My US exposure is limited to soxx.....its not kiwi

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moXJO said:

Hopefully the etf and not the pornstar. I can never tell with you.

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basilio said:

Not sure if this is the right place for this story.. but let's see.
A friend of mine in San Franciso sent me this article from the San Franciso Chronicle on the fentanyl drug problem in the city.
The article incorporates pictures, videos and stories.

It is horrific. And this is in one of the hippest, wealthiest cities in the US.

San Francisco's fentanyl crisis: A disaster in plain sight

Fentanyl is devastating San Francisco, and many of the city’s dead have been found within blocks of each other in the Tenderloin and South of Market. The Chronicle followed people locked in its grip as they try to survive the sprawling opioid epidemic on their own.

www.sfchronicle.com

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moXJO said:

San Francisco has been like that for a long time. I visited in the 90s and there were junkies and homeless everywhere.

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Investoradam said:

A leftist utopia?
Yet we have to laud celebrities

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moXJO said:

Leftist run places start of ok. Then the real world comes along.

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