Want your city to be safer? Don't be a Sanctuary City. That's what Phoenix learned - Granite Grok

Want your city to be safer? Don’t be a Sanctuary City. That’s what Phoenix learned

sanctuarycitiesAll we’ve heard for years from Chiefs of Police in big urban areas (you know, Democrat strongholds that the Mayor appoints the Chief – go figure) that we shouldn’t go after illegal aliens for deportation as then they wouldn’t talk to the police about crime.  We have to treat them differently, we’re told over and over – we must build “trust”.  How much trust can there be when all it amounts to is “we won’t call ICE”?  But they continue to stick to The Big Lie for ideological reasons (seems that Dems much prefer illegal aliens to actual Americans).

But the Big Lie for Phoenix has turned out to be nothing but vaporware:

REPORT: After Phoenix Dropped Sanctuary City Status, Crime Rate Fell

When the City of Phoenix ended its sanctuary city status crime began to fall, the Arizona Police Association reports. Their statement contrasts sharply with politically motivated chiefs of police from around the country.

“When we eliminated our sanctuary policy back in 2008, we saw crime, violent and stolen vehicles fall by 25 percent,” former Phoenix police officer and Executive Director of the Arizona Police Association Levi Bolton told Fox News Channel’s William La Jeunesse in an interview. “We saw a 20-year low crime rate. When we were allowed and had the discretion to contact our federal immigration partners, crime fell drastically.”

Lajeunesse reported data from City-Data.com revealing that from 2008 to 2009, the murder rate in Phoenix dropped by 27 percent. Other crimes fell as well. Auto thefts fell by 36 percent, robberies 23 percent, thefts by 19 percent, burglaries by 14 percent, and assaults by 13 percent, the report states. The rates fell again in 2010, but by smaller numbers. The overall crime index fell by 20 percent the first year after the city’s policy change.

 

…the University of California, Riverside, disagrees. A 2016 study by the university revealed that “violent crime is slightly higher in sanctuary cities.” It concluded there is not a “discernible difference in violent crime rates, rape, or property crime” across the 55 cities in their study, La Jeunesse reported.

To my mind, the worst damage that the Sanctuary City movement is to The Rule of Law where it is supposed to apply to everyone equally.  Sadly, Progressives have lynched and buried this foundational precept  of our Republic to where Oppression matters more thanks to their adoption of Critical Race Theory as their co-companion of Socialism over Freedom.

And as it turns out, once again, the Progressive / Socialist are wrong yet again.

(H/T: Breitbart Texas)

>