pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was k at the pry crime, it s not much better. they hapull up and break into the front door and try to drag off the atm machine. some 2,500 s
pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was a 17% increase in burglaries. if you look at the property crime, it s not much better. they had a truck pull up and break into the front
who currently work at msnbc and often overlooked purpose of tonight s dinner, serious business and over the purpose of tonight s dinner to reward scholarships to students who have shown great achievements in journalism. these brave young souls are the future of the industry and i like to stop right now congratulate tonight top scholarship recipient arizona state senior george santos. [laughter] george couldn t be here tonight, he s auditioning for a drag r race. [applause] [laughter] we say good luck to you, george. also, speaking of drag queens, can we stop with the grooming stuff? and you stop talking about that? drag queens are not at the
government officials who currently work at msnbc. and often overlooked purpose of tonight s dinner, you know, serious business and overlooked purpose of tonight s dinner is to award scholarships to students who have shown great achievements in journalism. that s right. these brave young souls are the future of the industry. and i d like to stop right now into and congratulate tonight s top scholarship recipient, arizona state senior jorge santos. oh yeah. george couldn t be here tonight. he s auditioning for rupaul s drag race. that s not bad. we say good luck to you, george. sachet away. and also speaking of drag queens. can we stop with the groom and stuff? can you stop talking about that drag queens are not at a school
isn t there more excitement? we had a couple of years of this. look at what s happening in the economy. you see he didn t even give a speech when he announced his run, it was a video so do we really think this is going to insight excitement? this is past his bedtime. do you think the media groomed him to be this way? i remember covering the campaign in 2020, he just stayed in the basement. we be begging him to do polls and everything and he got elected president and he s doing the same thing. i think that s exactly right, he s able to do this before so why should he change it now? he s a couple years older. the other day he was some event and couldn t remember how many grandchildren he had so anytime he s going out, you see those moments happen and i do think the media allow this to happen and they are giving him his questions ahead of time and he s not even that eloquent when he