End of defund police era? Crime, prosecutorial crackdown in blue and purple states signals shift, experts say
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California, Colorado, Arizona and Texas signaled a shift toward more pro-law enforcement policies in the 2024 election after the "defund police" movement of 2020.
"You'd have to lie to yourself to believe that there hasn't been a significant shift in the electorate." "[W]e're going to see this shift in morale, and that is going to bring recruitment numbers back up." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Four years later, however, Americans are frustrated with the state of violent crime in some areas and sought in the 2024 election to give more power and funding to law enforcement.
"We are seeing a huge shift post election now in legislation propositions – even candidates who rejected defunding, they rejected decriminalization, they rejected decarceration," Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant and spokesperson for the National Police Association nonprofit, told Fox News Digital. "And we're really heartened at what we're seeing. This has… been 10 years of progressive, quote-unquote reform, police reform, criminal justice reform."
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