our police academies became as empty as a freshly looted walgreens and the subways. fre as gross as johnny depp spp teeth. and it wasn t just major cities in goodhue, minnesota. recently, the entire police departmentcities.tl resigned.gre granted, it s six people, but still and right on cue, justchao as this chaos becomes an election issuemes an e, democratic memory loss returns. cert they,yet, ytold didn t mean defund. yeah, well, you didn t think we were serious. the id you suggest the weirdos from the squad, which is like a mob blaming their hitmen? they do your ugly work so your hands look squeaky clean. blame the squad. but don t be fooled. nothing s changet bed today. god we ve just got defunded by different means. bail r call it soft defunding. bail reform has meant that shoplifting just passedas pickleball as the nation s fastest growing spor thet. true. i mean, it s easier on the knees unlesest ons you rt
of it, and you just and you just look at the actual results you wind up with a town that loses its entire police force! that s a problem. dana: i have a list here of all the major cities from seattle and denver to new york city, san francisco, all of them have had major drops since 2020. the highest is up to 45%. actually, i m sorry, portland had a 60% drop in applications since 2020. but i thought this was a super interesting story this morning. we did it on newsroom with garrett teney and i thought it was about goodhue, minnesota. then he started talking about all these other small towns especially in the midwest and some of these towns have zero police. so these town councils, i know it s difficult, local government is the hardest government. but you have to get your priorities straight because your number one job is public safety. if you don t do it, the people will. they will protect themselves. somehow. but one thing that people cannot do is do what these police officers are