Much to the annoyance of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-school-teacher-with-no-interest-in-defunding-the-police-takes-stand-for-first-amendment-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Laird</a> refuses to go away quietly.
After decades as a Los Angeles teacher, Laird is involved in a messy <a href="https://www.freedomfoundation.com/labor/la-teacher-sues-utla-says-demand-to-defund-police-was-the-last-straw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> with the union over its reluctance to allow him to opt out of membership and dues as prescribed by law. Last week, the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. 
What makes his experience so compelling for the public — and embarrassing for UTLA — is that Laird is neither a malcontent nor a union-basher by inclination. He is, in fact, a much-decorated educator who served for many years as UTLA campus chapter co-chair.
But when the union began advocating several years ago to “defund the police” and put students’ and teachers’ lives at risk, he’d had enough.
Over the years, Laird has witnessed countless violent acts on campus, including the death of a former student, and was outraged that UTLA would call for the removal of law enforcement from the district’s schools.
“I couldn’t in good conscience continue to pay dues to an organization that was campaigning against something that is so personal to me,” explained Laird. “I support fully funding the police to keep our students safe.”
He responded by opting out of his UTLA membership and requesting it stop taking his money to fund messaging with which he disagrees.
His legal right to do so is unequivocal. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME that unions could no longer take public employees’ money for use in political speech without their consent.
The ruling also specified that by agreeing to give money to a public labor union, workers are waiving their First Amendment right against compelled speech.
In the case of Glenn Laird, UTLA tried to have it both ways.
They told Laird his previous agreement was an effective waiver of his First Amendment rights, even though he signed it before Janus was even decided.
Even more to the point, the union refused to honor the terms of Laird’s actual agreement, which allowed him to end the deduction of his money. He specifically objected to the last union agreement he signed with UTLA by striking out the language supposedly restricting his ability to end his membership at any time with a felt marker.
UTLA kept taking his money without his consent anyway.
In other words, the First Amendment did not matter.
Left with no alternative, Laird took UTLA and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to federal court. Represented pro bono by the Freedom Foundation, he asked the court to rule on the scope of his constitutional rights, and to acknowledge UTLA’s violations.
But UTLA doesn’t want a judge to decide the constitutional claims.
Instead, its leaders cut him a check for the money deducted from his pay without his consent and asked him to please drop the case.
This tactic has become all too common among public unions trying to avoid their responsibilities under the First Amendment.
Laird refused to dismiss his lawsuit, and with good reason. Because his case is about more than the return of his money. In fact, Laird is donating the entire amount he received from UTLA to a nonprofit group that helps disadvantaged students in the Los Angeles area.
When judges at both the lower court level and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the union, the Freedom Foundation filed a request with the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.
Glenn Laird’s case is about a judicial acknowledgment and vindication of his First Amendment rights by a federal judge. As long as unions can cut checks using their members’ dues dollars to make lawsuits disappear, judges will never have the opportunity to rule on the actual constitutional issues, rendering the First Amendment and Janus decision meaningless.
“Hopefully the Supreme Court will find my case worthy of making a ruling,” concluded Laird. “Janus set the stage, but now we need to build on that precedent so unions and lower court judges don’t continue to ignore the Supremes.”
While it should not take a federal lawsuit for unions to recognize their responsibilities under the Constitution, UTLA doesn’t get to put a price tag on the First Amendment and cannot kill a case by simply doing the right thing after the fact.
For one principled Los Angeles teacher, the fight is far from over.
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Timothy R. Snowball is a civil rights attorney with Freedom Foundation, where his practice is focused on protecting the First Amendment rights of government workers to make their own decisions about whether to join or support public sector unions.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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There was a record-breaking number of law enforcement officers shot in the line of duty in 2023, according to <a href="https://national.fop.net/reportshotkilled112024#page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the National Fraternal Order of Police. 
In 2023, there were 378 officers shot, a 60% increase since the FOP began tracking data back in 2018. The data also showed that 46 police officers were killed. “These horrifying statistics are a grim reminder of the War on Cops in this country. A stain on our society,” the FOP said. 
“Last year, over 330 police officers were shot in the line of duty. With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us and after so many Americans have seen the tragic consequences of the defund the police movement, it was our hope that these numbers would be a high-water mark,” FOP President Patrick Yoes <a href="https://fop.net/2024/01/record-breaking-378-officers-shot-2023-fop-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We were wrong.”
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The National FOP report on officers shot in 2023 has just been released and the results are horrifying!
378 officers shot, highest number since we started tracking the data.
60% increase in officers shot since 2018.
115 ambush attacks that resulted in 138 officers shot.
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There were 62 officers killed in 2022. Yoes said that fatalities were down due to improvements in medical trauma science and anti-ballistic technology.
“Many will often look at this data and just see numbers, but we must remember that they represent heroes — fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters. This scale of violence against our officers is horrifying and simply unsustainable,” Yoes said. “It is no wonder that our profession is facing a recruitment and retention crisis. What father or mother would want their child to become an officer knowing the dangers they face every day?”
The FOP also said that police were targeted in ambush-style attacks. “There have been 115 ambush-style attacks on law enforcement officers this year. These ambush-style attacks have resulted in 138 officers shot, 20 of whom were killed,” the report said. 
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The report did not measure the amount of times police officers were shot at but were not struck. At the end the report featured the names and pictures of all the officers who were killed by gunfire this year. 
Yoes wants Congress to pass the Protect and Serve Act, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/743?s=1&amp;r=65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which</a> “establishes a new criminal offense for knowingly assaulting a law enforcement officer and causing serious bodily injury (or attempting to do so).”
“Truthfully, the violence against those sworn to protect and serve is beyond unacceptable; it’s a stain on our society, and it must end,” Yoes said. “It is incumbent upon our elected officials and community leaders to stand up, support our heroes, and speak out against the violence against law enforcement officers.”
Anti-police sentiment spread through the United States following the death of George Floyd in May 2020. Some cities moved to defund their police departments, but later back tracked as violent crime increased.

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There are not enough police in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/austin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin</a> to handle multiple major emergencies as a result of the 2020 movement to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/defund-the-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defund the police</a>,” according to a new documentary from The Daily Caller.
The documentary, called “<a href="https://lawless.dailycaller.com/optin1693416044525?sl=dailywire">Lawless</a>,” examines the effects of the anti-police movement across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd in May 2020. One of the cities Daily Caller investigators examined was Austin, Texas, where the city council <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/13/austin-city-council-cut-police-budget-defund/">voted</a> to cut the police budget by one third in August 2020 amid a wave of anti-police sentiment.
While Austin later voted to move funding back to the police department, it still faces massive staffing shortages and its chief of police <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-police-chief-abruptly-retires-staffing-shortages-lack-police-union-contract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> in August. As of September, Austin <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/news/police/new-austin-police-officers-sworn-in/269-99244b89-dcda-4133-9d32-4b2b457b094a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was at least</a> 300 officers short of full staff.
“We are not a city that can handle parallel critical incidents,” Matt Mackowiak, co-founder of Save Austin Now, told The Daily Caller. “If we get to a situation where we have a serious bank robbery in North Austin, and something happening at [Austin City Limits Music Festival] at the same time, we will not have enough police officers to respond to both incidents.”
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Save Austin Now is a nonpartisan group <a href="https://www.saveaustinnow.com/who-we-are" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committed</a> to addressing the challenges facing Austin, including homelessness, high property taxes, and crime.
The budget cuts in Austin came alongside the national push by some Democrat politicians, including Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), to defund and dismantle police departments throughout the U.S.
At the same time, police departments across the country have struggled to stay fully staffed amidst a wave of resignations and a decline in new recruits. The Daily Caller spoke with law enforcement, politicians, and small business owners about the crisis in policing.
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“I want to signal a crisis,” Fraternal Order of Police President Patrick Yoes <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/daily-caller-documentary-lawless-defund-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Our profession is dependent on the best and brightest stepping up and taking this job. And because of the actions, and because of the turmoil that has happened in the last two years, we have a crisis right now in manpower.”
The Daily Caller said the film “will expose the true human cost of turning against law enforcement. We are traveling across the country to discover the terror that has been unleashed upon American cities as a result of the &#8216;Defund the Police&#8217; movement. We will uncover how the movement became as powerful as it did and give a voice to the forgotten men and women who bear the brunt of the violence in their daily lives.”
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New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday that the city needs more cops as the NYPD remains down more than 2,000 officers since the pandemic.
“We can use more,” Adams told MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; “I’m very clear on that.”
“The numbers are down, but based on the numbers, no one does it better than the New York Police Department,” Adams said.
The NYPD <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayors-nearly-500-million-gun-violence-plan-doesnt-include-more-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has seen</a> a wave of officers resigning and retiring in recent years.
The city currently has 33,582 uniformed officers, down from about 36,000 officers before the pandemic, NYPD data <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/nypd-needs-more-cops-mayor-adams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
So far this year, New York&#8217;s police force has seen 613 resignations and 1,042 retirements as of August. In January and February, 239 officers resigned, the biggest exodus since 2007, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NYPD pension data.
In March, Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the “NYPD staffing emergency is approaching the point of no return.”
However, the hemorrhaging of officers appears to have slowed from last year, when the NYPD saw a record of more than 3,700 officers leave.
Also this year, the NYPD lowered its fitness standards to bring more women onto the force, a decision the mayor <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/nypd-kills-timed-run-requirement-for-new-nyc-cops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> had to approve.
“We must start recruiting young people to get back into the profession of law enforcement,” Adams, a former police officer, said on Monday.
Violent crime spiked in New York City during the pandemic. The numbers have started decreasing, but some crimes are still rising this year.
Shootings are down to 795 this year, <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to police data, but that number is still <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new-york-city-reaches-record-low-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher</a> than the city&#8217;s 777 in all of 2019.
Murders are down to 312 so far this year, just below New York&#8217;s 319 <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new-york-city-reaches-record-low-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in all</a> of 2019.
Felony and misdemeanor assaults have both risen to a combined nearly 57,000 assaults so far this year. Car thefts have also risen to 12,600 thefts.
In July, Adams downplayed New Yorkers’ concerns about crime, saying all the media coverage “plays on your psyche.”
“They start their day picking up the news, the morning papers… and they see some of the most horrific events that may happen throughout the previous day,” Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-blames-medias-crime-coverage-following-new-poll-that-residents-remain-concerned-about-personal-safety/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox 5.
However, even Alvin Bragg, the city’s progressive district attorney who has been accused of being soft on crime, said he worries about crime on the subway.
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“I know the statistics that transit crime is down, but when one of my family members gets on the train, I, too, get a knot in my stomach,” Bragg <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/city-under-siege-crime-perception-vs-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in July.
Adams added on MSNBC on Monday that he believes the problem extends beyond New York City and that “we have a law enforcement crisis across the country.”
In fact, other cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, and Nashville, have also struggled with a police shortage in recent years.
Many in law enforcement say departments are suffering from flagging morale thanks to a wave of anti-police sentiment that peaked with the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. In some cases, city councils slashed police budgets, leaving some police chiefs feeling abandoned as they are stretched thin trying to keep residents safe.
Resignations among cops were up 47% last year over 2019, and retirements were up 19% <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-experiencing-police-hiring-crisis-rcna103600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among</a> 200 police forces surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum.

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portland</a> city commissioner who pushed to defund the police <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/21/jo-ann-hardesty-portlant-politics-oregon-lawsuit-hit-and-run-police-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will get</a> a $680,000 payout from the police over claims that cops leaked information falsely implicating her in a hit-and-run.
Jo Ann Hardesty was briefly falsely <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/16/portland-police-association-president-resigns-amid-leak-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implicated</a> in a March 3, 2021, hit-and-run after a 911 caller mistakenly identified her as the driver of the vehicle that hit her.
Two Portland Police Bureau police officers allegedly <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/16/portland-police-association-president-resigns-amid-leak-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> the false implication of Hardesty to media outlets and others, but she was quickly cleared in the minor collision.
Hardesty, the first black woman to serve as a Portland city commissioner, then sued the city and the police in late 2021, claiming the alleged police leaks were racially and politically motivated.
Her lawsuit, which sought $5 million, was set to go to trial this month before the parties reached the massive $680,000 settlement. The payout <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/21/jo-ann-hardesty-portlant-politics-oregon-lawsuit-hit-and-run-police-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will come</a> from Portland&#8217;s police union and the two officers allegedly involved in the leak.
Hardesty said she hopes the settlement will prevent something like this from happening again.
“This settlement holds the Portland Police Association and the individuals accountable for their wrongful conduct and the unnecessary harm they caused,” Hardesty <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/21/jo-ann-hardesty-portlant-politics-oregon-lawsuit-hit-and-run-police-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Oregon Public Broadcasting.
“While this settlement does not make me whole, I’m hopeful that shining a light on this unfortunate situation will prevent others from having this burden brought upon them,” she said.
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The city previously <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/08/jo-ann-hardesty-settles-leak-lawsuit-against-portland-for-5000-and-written-apology.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> its part of Hardesty&#8217;s lawsuit in August for $5,000 and a written apology from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
At the time, the police leak also prompted Wheeler to launch an investigation into the leak&#8217;s origin.
Less than two weeks after the hit-and-run incident, the president of the Portland Police Association, Brian Hunzeker, resigned, the union <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/03/portland-police-union-president-resigns-over-serious-mistake-related-to-hit-run-report-that-named-commissioner-jo-ann-hardesty-in-error.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> his &#8220;serious, isolated mistake related to the Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner Hardesty.&#8221;
Hardesty&#8217;s lawsuit had accused Hunzeker and another officer of being involved in the leak.
In 2020, Hardesty was on the front lines of the push to defund Portland&#8217;s police department during the riots following the murder of George Floyd. In Portland, the daily, often violent protests drew hundreds and stretched into October.
During the summer of 2020, Hardesty <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/20/portland-police-budget-jo-ann-hardesty-chloe-eudlay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spearheaded</a> $15 million in cuts to the police budget. That fall, she pushed for the police department to lose million of dollars more.
Since then, Portland beefed up its police budget again after homicides ticked up and amid a police staffing shortage.
“I think people acknowledge that we’re at an inflection point in our city,” the mayor <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/17/portland-oregon-city-council-passes-7-billion-dollar-budget-city-fees-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this year as the city considered a budget with funding for dozens more cops. “Studies show people are choosing not to stay here. I see this as a critical moment in the city’s history that we should respond to.”
In July, 2020, Hardesty apologized for claiming that police &#8220;saboteurs&#8221; were infiltrating the protests and even starting fires.
Hardesty had said in an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=278967990045742&amp;ref=external" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online briefing</a> that, “I want people to know that I do not believe there’s any protesters in Portland that are setting fires, that are creating crisis. I absolutely believe it’s police action, and they’re sending saboteurs and provocateurs into peaceful crowds so they justify their inhumane treatment of people who are standing up for their rights.”
Hardesty, a firm progressive, ultimately <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/11/rene-gonzalez-with-law-and-order-focus-ousts-portland-commissioner-jo-ann-hardesty-in-contentious-city-council-race.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost her</a> reelection bid to another Democrat who ran as a law and order centrist.

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San Francisco, which announced support for defunding the police after the death of George Floyd, is now trying to recruit cops — from Texas.
In July 2020, Mayor London Breed announced that $120 million would be cut from the police and sheriff&#8217;s departments. “Reforming our criminal justice system must go hand-in-hand with policy changes and budget investments to make our city more equitable,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-plans-to-redirect-120-million-from-15447811.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;By redirecting funding from law enforcement agencies back into the African American community, we are putting our words into action, and we are doing it by listening to a community that for too long has been unheard and underserved.”
A subsequent soaring in <a href="https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-department-funding/12321818/#:~:text=The%20initial%20calls%20from%20city,in%20fiscal%20year%202018%2D2019." target="_blank" rel="noopener">property crime</a> rate forced Breed to reverse course and the police budget was actually increased.
This month the city’s police department is visiting four Texas university campuses: Texas Southern University, Sam Houston State University, Prairie View A&amp;M University, and Texas A&amp;M University. The purpose is to recruit prospective cops. This will reportedly be the first time prospective candidates are tested out of California, according to the <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/18/san-francisco-police-hunt-for-recruits-at-texas-colleges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Standard</a>.
Because of staffing shortages, overtime has increased dramatically; overtime hours <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/03/09/sfpd-pay-millions-more-for-officers-to-work-fewer-hours-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soared</a> 54% between 2021 and 2022. According to Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a former police communications staffer, the police departments full-duty police officers have been reduced by 335 from 2017. The city had 1,537 officers as of January; a police staffing analysis estimated the city needed more than 2,100 officers to work properly.
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This week, the San Francisco Deputy Sheriff’s Association <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-deputy-sheriffs-association-budget-cuts/3322118/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Breed of stealthily  defunding the department, saying it discovered at a labor management meeting that San Francisco had initiated cuts to the sheriff’s budget. The association claimed that when it queried the city as to why, the city said it was broke.
“We want to be part of the solution, but time and time again, the mayor seems to block the sheriff from doing that. And this is another example. She’s cut the funding for those items and it almost seems like silent defunding, you know? For us and we’re trying to help,” Ken Lomba, president of the San Francisco Deputy Sheriff’s Association, stated.

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The Minneapolis Police Department has been hemorrhaging officers ever since George Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis police custody, and the force&#8217;s staffing crisis recently hit a new low.
With just 585 sworn officers, the city&#8217;s police force last month dipped to its lowest staffing level in at least four decades, the Star Tribune <a href="https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-staffing-levels-reach-historic-lows-amid-struggle-for-recruitment-retention/600305214/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The city now has one of the lowest ratios of police officers to city residents out of 22 cities the outlet analyzed, with 1.4 officers for every 1,000 residents.
Only Portland had a lower ratio with 1.3 officers for every 1,000 residents, the Star Tribune reported. The national average is 2.4 officers per 1,000 residents.
The result in Minneapolis has been longer police response times and officers who are stretched thin. Sometimes no one is available to man the desks at police stations, the outlet reported, meaning residents who come to file a police report find a locked door and a handmade sign telling them to dial 911 in an emergency.
&#8220;This is absolutely not sustainable,&#8221; Police Chief Brian O&#8217;Hara <a href="https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-staffing-levels-reach-historic-lows-amid-struggle-for-recruitment-retention/600305214/?refresh=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Thank God for all these other agencies that are filling this gap.&#8221;
The Minneapolis police force was thrown into chaos in 2020 after George Floyd&#8217;s police killing when the video of Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd&#8217;s neck went viral.
Minneapolis along with many other U.S. cities saw months of protests and riots in response to Floyd&#8217;s killing, often involving destruction of property and clashes with police.
Chauvin was ultimately convicted on murder charges in 2021 and sentenced to decades in prison.
Since the upheaval of 2020, the Minneapolis police force has lost officers faster than it can hire new ones, but it is not the only city with a police staffing crisis. The U.S. is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-police-hiring-crisis-is-gripping-u-s-cities-and-towns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing a police officer shortage</a> that spans from large cities to small towns across the country.
Many in law enforcement say departments are suffering from flagging morale thanks to a wave of anti-police sentiment that peaked with Floyd&#8217;s police killing. In some cases, city councils slashed police budgets, leaving some police chiefs feeling abandoned as they are stretched thin trying to keep residents safe.
Resignations among cops were up 47% last year over 2019, and retirements were up 19% <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-experiencing-police-hiring-crisis-rcna103600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among</a> 200 police forces surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum.
In New York City, the NYPD <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayors-nearly-500-million-gun-violence-plan-doesnt-include-more-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has seen</a> an alarming wave of officers resigning.
In January and February, 239 officers resigned, the biggest exodus since 2007, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NYPD pension data. Also this year, the NYPD lowered its fitness standards in order to bring more women onto the force, a decision the mayor reportedly had to approve.
“The NYPD staffing emergency is approaching the point of no return,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch in March.
In Los Angeles, the LAPD is <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lapd-shrinks-9000-officers-fewest-cops-generation-rcna98672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 300 officers short and down to fewer than 9,000 officers, the fewest since the 1990s.
San Francisco is about 600 officers short, but the city <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/new-san-francisco-police-hires-reach-three-year-18263146.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been</a> able to attract more recruits lately.
Austin, which is also battling a crime spike, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/union-says-austin-police-dept-battling-crime-spike-hundreds-of-officers-short-after-defund-the-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 500 officers short, resulting in 911 callers being put on hold, according to a union representing the cops.
Nashville’s police department is short 170 officers.

Minneapolis City Council Announces Support For Dismantling Police Department After Death Of George Floyd

Minneapolis Police Staffing Falls To Lowest Level In Four Decades After George Floyd’s Death

Minneapolis Police Staffing Falls To Lowest Level In Four Decades After George Floyd's Death

George Floyd

Minneapolis

Authorities sentenced a Washington man to 40 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in a plot to burn down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/seattle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seattle</a> Police Officers Guild building during the Black Lives Matter riots in September 2020.
Justin Christopher Moore, 35, of Renton, created and carried a box of 12 Molotov cocktails during a protest march of over 1,000 people toward the police building in downtown Seattle on Labor Day 2020, according to court documents.
“Moore’s offense was extremely dangerous and created a substantial risk of injury to numerous bystanders,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg for the Western District of Washington said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/washington-man-sentenced-bringing-box-molotov-cocktails-protest-march-summer-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Police reportedly smelled gasoline and became increasingly concerned about the intentions of the so-called protestors. After reviewing nearby video surveillance footage and recorded video from other protests, police identified Moore as the person seen carrying the box of explosives, according to the Justice Department. Nearly a year later, police executed a search warrant in June 2021 at Moore’s home and confiscated numerous items to produce the explosive devices and the clothing Moore was wearing while carrying the Molotov cocktails.
In the weeks after George Floyd’s death in May 2020, cities nationwide descended into chaos after Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters flooded the streets, looted and vandalized private property and businesses across the city.
The riots sparked months of civil unrest, resulting in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
Local media <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-several-protesters-arrested-outside-seattle-police-union-building/OOVQU7UJVNHUDMDSULKBIMOIGI/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Seattle police arrested 22 individuals on Labor Day for arson, assault, obstruction, and failure to disperse after a large crowd marched from the International District to the Seattle Police Officers Guild building in SODO.
Police reportedly said they arrested a number of rioters outside the police union building after throwing rocks, bottles, and homemade explosive devices at police and refusing to leave.
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The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-protest-of-police-budget-and-union-turns-chaotic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> several interactions that day between police and rioters, including one person who deployed a fire extinguisher. Other instances included officers pushing their bikes toward the crowd and using pepper spray and flash-bang grenades.
Last summer, Seattle law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/low-morale-from-seattle-police-department-harms-public-safety-mayor-announces-2-million-recruitment-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> it lost more than 400 officers while crime surged to its highest level in two decades after city officials voted to defund some police services following the George Floyd riots in 2020.
The department had approximately 1,300 officers patrolling the city right before Black Lives Matter reimagined policing in America. But over the last three years, residents have felt the effects of the BLM narrative, with the number of officers dwindling to just shy of 950.
The staff shortage has limited the number of calls to only life-threatening emergencies, serious crimes in progress, and other circumstances, while limiting their efforts to address “low-priority” calls and conduct follow-up investigations for high-priority calls.

Demonstration in Seattle

Man Sentenced To 40 Months In Plot To Burn Down Seattle Police Union Building During 2020 BLM Riots

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota</a> DFL Party official who championed defunding the police during the George Floyd riots has since changed her position after being violently attacked this week.
Shivanthi Sathanandan, the Second Vice Chairwoman for the DFL, posted an image of her bloodied face from the attack on Tuesday, explaining that she was carjacked at her home while her children were present.
&#8220;Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shivanthi.sathanandan/posts/10161178673010477?ref=embed_post">wrote</a> in a Facebook post that included a photo she took of herself. &#8220;The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me. All in broad daylight.&#8221;
&#8220;Look at my face in the picture. This is the face of a mother who just had the s[***] beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, &#8216;let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away,'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is the face of a mother who just listened to her four year old daughter screaming non-stop, her 7 year old son wailing for someone to come help because bad guys are murdering his Mama in the back yard, her neighbors screaming in outrage&#8230; all while being beaten with guns and kicks and fists.&#8221;
She said that she has a broken leg, deep lacerations on her head, and bruising and cuts all over her body.
&#8220;And I have rage,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These men knew what they were doing. I have NO DOUBT they have done this before. Yet they are still on OUR STREETS. Killing mothers. Giving babies psychological trauma that a lifetime of therapy cannot erase. With no hesitation and no remorse.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m now part of the statistics. I wasn&#8217;t silent when I fought these men to save my life and my babies, and I won&#8217;t be silent now,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We need to get illegal guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM. PERIOD.&#8221;
&#8220;Look at my face. REMEMBER ME when you are thinking about supporting letting juveniles and young people out of custody to roam our streets instead of HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS,&#8221; she added.
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She then thanked law enforcement and declared: &#8220;These criminals will not win. We need to take back our city. And this will not be the last you hear from me about this.&#8221;
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Carjackings continues to afflict the city; this week DFL 2nd Vice Chairwoman Shivanthi Sathanandan was violently attacked and carjacked in front of her children in the driveway of her MPLS home in broad daylight. 
She says she suffered a broken leg, deep… <a href="https://t.co/83b2RJuF0D">pic.twitter.com/83b2RJuF0D</a>
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As <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/anti-cop-minnesota-democratic-party-official-left-bloodied-in-violent-carjacking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> by the New York Post, Sathanandan called for defunding the police back in 2020.
&#8220;We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police department. Say it with me,&#8221; she wrote on Facebook at the time. &#8220;DISMANTLE The Minneapolis Police Department.&#8221;
In a separate post, she praised the Minneapolis School Board for pulling police officers out of the schools.
“MPD should have no place in our children’s schools,” she wrote.

Shivanthi Sathanandan

‘Defund The Police’ Democrat Gets Violently Attacked, Now Demands Holding Criminals ‘Accountable’

'Defund The Police' Democrat Gets Violently Attacked, Now Demands Holding Criminals 'Accountable'

Minnesota

The mother of a man murdered in a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, in 2021 blasted the Austin City Council, calling them cowards for having defunded the police in 2020.
The budget of the Austin police department suffered a $150 million cut that was <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/14/austin-city-council-approves-cut-police-budget-one-third/5582312002/#:~:text=AUSTIN%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Austin%20City%20Council,removed%20from%20the%20department's%20funding." target="_blank" rel="noopener">unanimously approved</a> by the Democrat-run council in mid-August 2020. Council member and now Democratic Congressman Greg Casar said, &#8220;This moment has been born out of a lot of hurt in the community. We know we have a long way to go.” He also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-police-past-present-sound-alarm-ripple-effects-of-defunding-police-crushing-morale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “We did it!! Austin City Council just reduced APD&#8217;s budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community&#8217;s safety and well-being. Tens of thousands of you have called, emailed, and testified. You made the impossible into a reality. #blacklivesmatter.”
Julia Kantor, whose son Douglas, 25, was killed in June 2021, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/austin-crime-victims-mother-rips-city-council-cowards-defunding-police-turning-citizens-into-targets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> an email to the council only days before her son’s alleged murderer went on trial. “Aug 28th in Austin TX there will be jury selection for the murder of my son Douglas Kantor and the attack on 14 others for the June 12th 2021 mass shooting on 6th street,” she wrote. “I hope you will follow this [trial] as your duty to your citizens. It was you, the city council and others who defunded the police and welcomed these evil people with no regard for life to run and ruin your city.”
“It&#8217;s time you see what you have done to not only the victims like my son but also to our family and friends and your city,” she continued, as reported by Fox News Digital. “Your irresponsible choices for political gain has put a target on the backs of Austin&#8217;s citizens and all who visit. &#8230; You have killed and ruined thousands of lives and couldn&#8217;t care less as long as you stay in power. Just like the killer, you are ALL COWARDS. NONE OF YOU HAD THE GUTS TO SPEAK UP AND POINT OUT HOW STUPID AND DESTRUCTIVE THAT WAS. I&#8217;M SURE IF YOUR KIDS WERE BEING KILLED YOU WOULD FIND YOUR VOICE.”
She concluded, “Remember what goes around comes around in different ways. Look at the last photo. This is the animal you released on my son and the people of Texas without a thought.”
Douglas Kantor had just bought a new home and was planning on marrying his high school sweetheart at the time of the shooting, in which 13 others were injured.
In her opening statement before the court, state attorney Jean Sullivan said, “Doug died because of these people that he had never seen or met before in his life that brought guns and used them on Sixth Street that night. He went out with them that night to celebrate. He had just graduated. He was here for a good time, a good weekend. [His friends] had no idea that night would be the last time that they would be able to celebrate with Douglas Kantor.”
“Everybody who keeps getting elected here is just further to the left every time, it’s gone from more passively anti-police to, what you’ve really seen since 2020, is just overtly anti-police,” one Austin police officer said in October 2022. “I think that has been a big tipping point for a lot of people and we’ve just had enough.”
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In 2021, Austin set an all-time record for homicides in 2021. Roughly a week and a half ago, Austin Police Department Chief Joseph Chacon announced he was retiring.
And this was the most recent news from Austin:
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TEXAS SHOOTING: Two people were killed and another person was critically wounded Thursday in a shooting at a business in Austin, Texas, officials said. <a href="https://t.co/rITfRlTk1l">https://t.co/rITfRlTk1l</a>
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‘You Are All Cowards’: Mother Whose Son Was Killed In Mass Shooting Blasts Austin For Defunding Police

Mother Whose Son Was Killed In Mass Shooting Blasts Austin For Defunding Police

Mass Shooting

Austin is battling a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime">crime</a> spike with a police department that is hundreds of officers short, meaning 911 callers are getting left on hold, according to a union representing the cops.
The Austin Police Department currently stands at around 1,475 officers, and the growing city needs closer to 2,000 in order to be able to protect the city, said Thomas Villarreal, president of the Austin Police Association, a union representing officers of the Austin PD.
&#8220;We&#8217;re moving in the wrong direction. There&#8217;s less and less resources to go out and do the job,&#8221; Villarreal <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/austin-pd-hundreds-officers-short-crime-cripples-city-union-warns-resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News on Monday.
Detectives in Austin have been pulled away from their caseload to help answer 911 calls, and some sworn personnel have started answering emergency calls on an overtime basis, Villarreal said.
&#8220;Anecdotally, on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday night when things are hopping, it&#8217;s not unusual for there to be multiple people put on hold for eight, 10, 12 or more minutes before you even get a 911 call taker,&#8221; Villarreal said.
&#8220;And then if it&#8217;s that busy for the 911 call takers, then with limited resources working the streets, it&#8217;s at times hours before officers are getting to some calls, especially the lower priority ones,&#8221; he said.
While overall crime in Austin is slightly down from the highs of 2020 and 2021, certain types of offenses have spiked.
Austin&#8217;s murder rate remains high, with <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-homicide-map-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> 41 homicides in 2023 as of August 8.
Car thefts are up 28% this year, <a href="https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Police/Reports/Chief_Monthly/2023/08142023_Chief's%20Monthly%20Report%20-%20July%202023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to police data through July. Arson is up nearly 40%. Shoplifting is up 13%. Certain types of sexual assaults and human trafficking cases have spiked as well.
Aggravated assaults are slightly down but remain high at 2,098. Simple assaults also remain high at 5,537.
In 2020, Austin&#8217;s city council voted to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-city-defund-the-police-budget" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slash</a> the police department&#8217;s budget by $150 million, more than a third.
Instead, the defund proposal said the saved money would be reallocated to a &#8220;Reimagine Safety Fund,&#8221; violence prevention, mental health, permanent supportive housing, food access, abortion, and an early childhood coordinator position.
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&#8220;We just continue to have a city council that doesn&#8217;t show its police officers that it cares about them,&#8221; Villarreal said.
The police department has lost more than 800 officers in the last six years.
Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-officer-faces-2nd-indictment-after-2020-protests-additional-officer-indicted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> 19 Austin police officers have been indicted for their actions on the job during the riots of 2020. The officers were <a href="https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-police-austin-texas-indictments-5bfc57cb72a4cf9691ef49534249086e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> by a Texas grand jury on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. During the unrest, police shot beanbag rounds into crowds of protesters, and in one case, a protester sustained a cracked skull and brain damage.
Other Democrat-run cities have also dealt with the fallout from their police budget cuts.
In San Francisco, Democratic Mayor London Breed <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/15/behind-london-breeds-defund-the-police-turnaround-in-san-francisco/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut $120 million</a> from the San Francisco police and sheriff’s budgets in 2020, even though police warned the cut could affect their ability to respond to emergencies.
By 2021 though, because the police cuts had impacted the San Francisco police department&#8217;s ability to respond to emergencies, Breed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flipped</a> on her decision. She made an emergency request to the Board of Supervisors for more law enforcement money to crack down on crime, including open-air drug dealing, car break-ins, and theft from stores.

Shooting In Downtown Austin Leaves 1 Dead, 4 Injured

Union Says Austin Police Dept Battling Crime Spike Hundreds Of Officers Short After ‘Defund The Police’

Union Says Austin Police Dept Battling Crime Spike Hundreds Of Officers Short After 'Defund The Police'

Police Unions

A Portland doctor who was bloodied and struck unconscious by a metal bottle in an unprovoked attack on Friday is holding the city responsible, calling out the city&#8217;s leftist leaders for &#8220;defunding the police.&#8221;
Mary Costantino, an interventional radiologist, left a bar downtown around 10:30 pm with a friend when an attacker walked towards the two and chucked an aluminum bottle at her, striking her face and knocking her unconscious.
She was left with a black eye and a bloodied face, including a cut on her nose and a busted lip, according to photos taken shortly after the attack, which show the doctor looking dazed as she sits on the sidewalk next to a pool of blood.
The attack was captured on surveillance footage, which <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/portland-doctor-mary-costantino-struck-in-face-during-unprovoked-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> a hooded white man with a backpack and the aluminum water bottle crossing the street to chuck the bottle at Costantino, who crumples to the ground when she is hit. Her male companion stumbles when the bottle is thrown and starts to walk toward the attacker, who runs away.
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PORTLAND, Oregon – Police are asking for the public’s help after an unknown suspect knocked a woman unconscious with a metal bottle in NW Portland.
Video shows Dr. Mary Costantino walking near a MAX train station when she was hit by a metal water bottle.
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Costantino said her friend saved her from being attacked again.
&#8220;He said that the perpetrator … was still coming towards me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And he turned around and really aggressively yelled at him and the guy ran away.&#8221;
Costantino <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-woman-knocked-attacker-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she believed she was going to die as she bled on the sidewalk.
“I thought we were still being sort of attacked some way and so I managed to call 911. I was very calm, but I was also very sure I was going to die,” she told Fox News. “In my head, I was like ‘I’m gonna try and just verbalize a report of what was happening so there’s some record of how I died.&#8217;”
The attack happened in downtown Portland near Southwest 17th Avenue and Southwest Yamhill Street.
Costantino said she had to wait more than 20 minutes for police to arrive, but she emphasized that the police were not to blame for the delay.
&#8220;I do not hold the police accountable for this at all — I hold our city accountable for defunding the police,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have enough police force to protect our citizens, and we did this to ourselves.&#8221;
&#8220;If we don&#8217;t have police officers to come to the side of somebody who is under attack, then we&#8217;re all on our own,&#8221; Costantino said.
She said that she has &#8220;100%&#8221; changed how she votes after seeing Portland become less and less safe.
In 2020 amid violent protests against police, Portland&#8217;s city council <a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-police-budget-15-million-defund-cannabis-council-vote/#:~:text=UPDATE%20(2%3A16%20p.m.%20PT,advocates%20had%20been%20pushing%20for." target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to slash the police department&#8217;s budget by $15 million. The city has gradually attempted to <a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/05/04/portland-mayors-proposed-budget-includes-more-cops/">reinstate</a> funding but with little results.
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Afterward, Portland&#8217;s police department <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/04/overworked-overwhelmed-and-burned-out-why-portland-cops-say-theyre-leaving-in-droves.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">started</a> hemorrhaging officers. The city has hired more police since September when the city <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portlanders-taking-precautions-avoid-attacked-response-rising-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was short</a> 100 cops, but the police department is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-woman-knocked-attacker-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">still down</a> about 80 officers.
The Portland Police Bureau <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-woman-knocked-attacker-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> the violent incident, with a spokesman saying the attack appears to be &#8220;unprovoked and brutal&#8221; according to the security camera footage.
The spokesman said officers were dispatched at 10:55 pm, about 20 minutes after Costantino says the attack happened, and they arrived on the scene eight minutes later, but by then, Costantino had already given up and started going home.
&#8220;Our goal is always to help as much as we can, as quickly as we can. But with our staffing being at historic lows, this has become a challenge for us,&#8221; Lieutenant Nathan Sheppard <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-woman-knocked-attacker-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News.
&#8220;Our officers joined the Police Bureau to help people, and when they are unable, it takes a toll,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We’re continuing to hire, so there’s definitely hope, and things WILL get better.&#8221;
Sheppard also said that at the time of Costantino&#8217;s call, there were zero officers free to respond. Police were actively working on 26 other calls across Portland, and 52 calls were holding, he said.

Portland Doctor Bloodied By Metal Bottle In Unprovoked Attack Slams City For ‘Defunding The Police’

Portland Doctor Bloodied By Metal Bottle In Unprovoked Attack Slams City For 'Defunding The Police'

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