just brush these figures, these inconvenient facts, totally under the rug. i haven t even mentioned that the largest increases in homicide rates were not in new york or l.a. but in rural republican led states like montana and south dakota. i mean, republicans have done such a good job with selective storytelling and collective blaming of democrats that both the quote unquote liberal media and top democrats themselves have totally bought into it. we should all agree that the answer is not to defund the police. it is to fund the police. fond them. yeah, fund the police. we re not doing it. only if i read the headlines. if i only listened to joe biden or only read headlines in the newspapers, i would think that the finding efforts have led to a rise in crime. time for a reality check. after the widespread calls to defund after the death of george floyd in 2020, cities