Earlier this year, the Burlington Vt. City Council bought into the defund police movement and jumped in with both feet. Something, however, did not go as expected.
The plan was for retiring officers not to be replaced but police got the message. Thirty-one of the ninety-five active officers decided not to wait and went to greener pastures. The term “left in droves” is what has been often heard up there, I read.
Frankly, it’s a mess as the results are that there are only five officers left for night duty, overtime costs are rising, businesses are having trouble keeping night workers, and people don’t feel safe. Response times are down and citizens feel the quality of life up there has diminished.
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Now all this is before the year’s crime date has been officially been released. That should be an eye-opener, too. But as the “Progressive Left has a habit of willful blindness we can expect excuses more than fixes. For example, a proposal was made at the Council to lift the hiring cap for officers but that was rejected. Instead, they hired social workers giving them an impressive-sounding title, but nothing changed.
Now they are offering their remaining officers large raises to stay. (What a stroke of reason and logic.)
Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned but those “progressive” believe their own propaganda so this is what happens.
Unintended Consequences!
