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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Tuesday morning released an 11-point broad vision for Republicans if and when they retake control in Washington, complete with 128 specific policy promises to voters.

Rep. Val Demings, a former Orlando Police Department chief, is reviving the use of her police title in campaign messaging as she runs for Senate.

Zionist Organization of America head Morton Klein blasted the BLM movement after they posted bond for a Black Lives Matter activist accused of attempting to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that the city’s police may receive less or the same amount of funding in the city’s 2022 budget. 

Some of Democrat Rep. Angie Craig’s (D-MN) top staffers are advocates of the anti-law enforcement “defund the police” agenda, according to posts unveiled by a recent Washington Free Beacon report.

During the “Defund the Police” movement in 2020, school resource officers were pulled from schools and budgets were cut. As crime continues to surge two years later, schools are bringing officers back to boost safety, Fox News reported Monday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that the idea of defunding the police, a frequently used slogan during the 2020 elections, is not the direction that the Democratic Party is headed.

Liberal policies are fueling the rise in crime, declared Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who blasted the Biden administration for refusing to enforce the law.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Peacock TV channel The Choice’s “Mehdi Hasan Show,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reacted to Democratic critics of the Defund the Police movement like Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) by stating

Roughly 75 percent of registered voters believe defunding police departments is either a “major” or “minor” reason for rising violent crime.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said she would not stop using the “defund the police” slogan, despite the movement’s growing unpopularity and other Democrat members pleading with her to stop using the term while spending tens of thousands of dollars on private security.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), who is the current frontrunner to succeed outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, proposed expanding the size of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on Tuesday as the city continues to suffer a crime wave.

The crime rate has reportedly increased in congressional districts where vulnerable House Democrats who voted to “defund the police” will be running for reelection.

Tlaib’s campaign paid $170,000 to an “anti-Israel activist” who has “called for defunding the police multiple times.”

Violent crime in Seattle, Washington, reached a 14-year high last year, according to a Seattle Police Department (SPD) year-end crime report.

Bush continues to champion the “Defund the Police” movement, despite its floundering popularity among Democrats before the midterm elections.

Rich Stanek, a former sheriff, police officer, state legislator, and public safety commissioner, who is running as a Republican in the Minnesota gubernatorial race, told Breitbart News Saturday that “it has become increasingly clear that the current governor of Minnesota [Tim Walz] does not care about protecting Minnesotans,” while crime has risen in the state.

Democrat Rep. Susie Lee (NV) said she was “honored” and “proud” to have the endorsement from the Sierra Club, an organization primarily known for its environmental activism that also supports far-left policies in other areas, including defunding the police.

Susan Sarandon has attacked New York Police Department officers who attended the recent funeral of murdered cop Jason Rivera, posting a meme to Twitter calling cops fascists and questioning why police are even needed in New York City.

The political action committee aligned with Georgia’s gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams spent more than $1.2 million on private security in 2021 despite the founder’s push to defund the police in the past, according to a report.

Defund the Police sympathizers from the so-called “squad” collectively spent over $325,000 on private security in 2021, after continuously promoting the “defund the police” movement, according to a report.

Democrat Greg Landsman, a Democrat Party recruit attempting to unseat Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), reportedly wrote a proposal to defund the Cincinnati police, as a Cincinnati city councilman, while the city saw a spike in homicides during the summer of 2020.

A Texas magistrate judge set bond at $50,000 for a convicted child sex offender accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy after another judge previously recommended a $1,000,000 bond, according to a Fox News report.

Three-hundred-and-forty-six police officers were shot in the line of duty during 2021. The National Fraternal Order of Police notes that 63 of those officers succumbed to their gunshot wounds.

In the final month of 2021, six police officers in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, and Texas were killed in the line of duty as a crime wave continues sweeping the United States.

A newly hired Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) email strategist supports the “abolition” of police departments and stated her “life’s mission” is to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Fox News reported Wednesday.

Biden’s DOJ is finishing up the year by giving grants to cities across the country “grappling with a dramatic rise in violent crime.”

Crime in Democrat-led Washington, DC, increased three percent overall compared to the same time last year, according to statistics collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

A delivery woman allegedly ran over an elderly couple’s groceries and wrote, “f— the police” on the receipt after seeing a pro-police sign.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a “state of emergency” Friday in the Tenderloin district, a notoriously crime-ridden area near Market Street, the broad thoroughfare that cuts through the heart of the downtown area.

The National Fraternal Order of Police blasted the National Football League after reports showed that the league had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-police groups that advocate for the end of American police departments.

With its “Inspire Change” program, the NFL is giving hundreds of thousands to groups that push the anti-cop, defund the police movement.

A DCCC digital strategist repeatedly called police officers “terrorists” and tweeted in favor of “abolishing the police.”

President Joe Biden renewed his pledge Tuesday to pursue “police reform” and “criminal justice” reform, even as violent crime surges across the nation and Democratic leaders are trying to back away from earlier pledges to “defund the police.”

During a Tuesday interview on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sounded off on the uptick in crime in some of the nation’s largest cities.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced plans Tuesday to expand the police budget to deal with rising crime, calling permissive policies “bullsh*t” and apparently reversing her policy this past February to defund $120 million from the police.