Defund movement faces 'absolute rejection' as murders drop and police budgets climb: law enforcement group

Various major cities have spent current years increasing help for their police and saw a drop in homicides something one law enforcement group says indicates an absolute rejection of efforts to defund them Cities such as Philadelphia Denver Minneapolis and New York City have increased their police budgets and have seen lower homicide rates in the first quarter of compared with The Major Cities Chiefs Association which compiled input from Jan March in and established that several cities with increased funding for police also experienced a drop in homicides Philadelphia saw a decrease in homicides year to date while Minneapolis saw a decrease and Denver experienced a decrease of almost CHICAGO ALDERMAN SLAMS THE MURDER CAPITAL S DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE According to the New York City Police Department there has been a decrease in murders year to date All of these cities have something in common Local lawmakers voted to increase police budgets in despite pressure from activists who requested to defund the police City bureaucrats in Minneapolis voted to increase their police budget by in according to MPR News New York City also increased funding to its police department in NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch who took over the department in November reported in a January op-ed for the New York Post that her focus on recidivism is helping make the city safer VIOLENT CRIME DROPS IN TOP LARGEST US CITY AS POLICE USE GRIDS TO TARGET WORST OFFENDERS Make no mistake These crime reductions were achieved thanks to the hard work and grit of New York s Finest but we know that plenty of New Yorkers don t feel safe Tisch revealed Their perception of population safety has become their reality and we know why surging recidivism The deck has been altogether stacked against our cops by a shocking lack of accountability for crime National Police Association spokesperson Sgt Betsy Brantner Smith informed Fox News Digital that the drop in murders shows that Americans are rejecting the defund the police movement I really do believe that what we are seeing in is an absolute rejection of the defund the police movement the re-imagining police movement The law enforcement profession perpetually has room for overhaul There is inevitably room for change but this whole cloth 'let's eliminate the police by defunding them' didn't work People died because of it and now the American constituents is wholeheartedly rejecting it Smith explained And the American law enforcement officer sees that Smith mentioned it shouldn't be a shock that more police work equals less crime Obviously this is something that we have been talking about for the last five years And we have you know we have been trying to explain to the American community that you do need law enforcement and when you need law enforcement law enforcement demands information And conclusively I think the populace the politicians the media are catching up with that idea she commented