Say Goodbye to Defunding the Police

Dr. Munr Kazmir
6 min readDec 18, 2021

Amid a wave of violent crime and mass looting, progressive mayors are abandoning the dream of defunding police departments.

Hennepin County Sheriffs Officers patrol outside the Nordstrom Rack and IDS Center in Minneapolis after looting and vandalism on August 27th, 2020. (Chad Davis)

In Chicago, one Nordstrom was hit by a smash-and-grab mob twice in one day. A North Face store on Michigan Avenue was hit two days in a row.

Elsewhere in the city, $2 million dollars in high-end watches were stolen in another smash-and-grab, as was…

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