{"id":71440,"date":"2021-06-29T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=71440"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:41:13","slug":"the-biden-pr-crew-proves-to-be-absolutely-shameless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=71440","title":{"rendered":"The Biden PR Crew Proves to Be \u201cAbsolutely Shameless\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u201cAbsolutely Shameless\u201d: WH Press Secretary Blames REPUBLICANS For Defunding Police<\/h1>\n<h3>Argues that lack of support for COVID relief bill equates to desire to defund law enforcement<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_2560.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_2560-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_2560-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<p><strong>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki drew ire Monday by suggesting that the defund the police movement is being driven by Republicans, rather than extremist Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In another exchange with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, Psaki argued that the lack of support on the right for Biden\u2019s massive pork filled COVID relief bill equates to wanting to defund law enforcement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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with COVID and everything to do with more government control.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki used the fact that there was some slated funding for \u2018community policing\u2019 in the bill to argue that Republicans are against funding the police.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it is Democrats that have been pushing defunding police for over a year now, which has had devastating effect on Democrat run cities.<\/p>\n<p>Last year after unrest and violence targeting police, Harvard university Professor Roland Fryer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/06\/16\/harvard-professor-defunding-the-police-is-not-a-solution-and-could-cost-thousands-of-black-lives\/\">urged that defunding the police would cause more loss of life<\/a>, citing figures showing that there are \u201c450 excess homicides per year\u201d when police are not able to do their jobs proficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefunding the police is not a solution and could cost thousands of black lives,\u201d professor Fryer wrote in an email to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/harvard-professors-research-defunding-the-police-could-cost-thousands-of-black-lives\/\">the College Fix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fryer has recently authored a research paper titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w27324.pdf\">\u201cPolicing the Police: The Impact of \u201cPattern-or-Practice Investigations on Crime,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0noting that police are less present when \u2018viral incidents\u2019 occur, meaning crime, including homicides increase\u2026 a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Last year it was reported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/23\/nyregion\/nyc-shootings-surge.html?referringSource=articleShare\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0that Gun violence is up 358% in New York City since June 2019 as police are being stripped of resources in Democrat run cities nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion in gun violence dovetailed with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/all\/nypd-disbanding-unit-last-chapter-stop-frisk-n1231135\">disbanding of NYPD anti-crime units<\/a>, a decision that meant around 600 plainclothes officers were taken off targeted raids and reassigned.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Democrat imposed \u201creforms\u201d have meant that around 40% of people arrested on gun possession charges were released without bail in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Figures also show that other Democrat run cities including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2020\/6\/6\/21282353\/chicago-crime-statistics-may-2020-overall-down-shootings-murders-up-unrest-protests-gun-violence\">Chicago<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/downtown-east-leads-minneapolis-neighborhoods-in-crime-increase\/567777542\/\">Minneapolis<\/a>\u00a0have experienced a massive uptick in gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the crime spike, the Minneapolis City Council\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tommybeer\/2020\/06\/12\/minneapolis-city-council-unanimously-votes-to-replace-police-with-community-led-model\/\">unanimously passed a resolution<\/a>\u00a0to replace the police department with a \u201ccommunity-led public safety system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the radical leftists and Democrats who are pushing the movement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/04\/22\/report-the-squad-hired-private-security-while-calling-for-abolition-of-police\/\">think nothing of hiring their own armed security<\/a>\u00a0while everyday Americans are left at the mercy of criminality.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/absolutely-shameless-wh-press-secretary-blames-republicans-defunding-police\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/absolutely-shameless-wh-press-secretary-blames-republicans-defunding-police<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbsolutely Shameless\u201d: WH Press Secretary 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