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
i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we just heard the kind of conversations that a lot of us are having at our own dinner tables. bill maher talk to jake tapper about politics and race and cancel culture and wokeness. how do you define wokeness? because i hear people use the term all the time. and it means something different to everybody. well, again, i think it s this collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism, but very often undoing it. i mean, five years ago, abraham lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. we liked him. [laughter] now they take his name of schools and turned down his statues. really, lincoln is not good enough for you? are we all having conversations also where we accidentally step in it? and what conversations do we now feel uncomfortable having because we re afraid to get it wrong? so, our panel is going to tackle all that in just a moment. also, the supreme court hearing challenges to president biden s student
Said they parted ways. i still think don deserves more, cnn. that ain t how you fire somebody. it s messed up. how it that you worked in the news and then watch the news to see you got fired by the news. don lemon is now the most obnoxious quy lemon is now the most obnoxious guy in the history of cnn. even jesse looking and thinking, oh, he rubbed me the wrong way. letting don go was the wrong move. you shouldn t have let him go, not this soon, cnn. he was fine when you were letting him drink, you shouldn t have cut off his liquor. you don t fire your host after the first couple of scandals, the scandals have to stack up, you ve got to get ratings. yes, don lemon was a diva, but that s a promotion at fox news.
I still think that don deserve more seeing there. that ain t how you fire somebody. it s messed up. how funny is it that you work in the news? then watch on the news that you got fired from the nubes. don lemon is now the most obnoxious guy in the history of cnn. that s not sad. even jeffrey toobin, looking at don lemon. like who he rubbed me the wrong way. letting down go was the wrong move. you shouldn t have let him go. not this soon. seeing their first off, don was fine. when y all was letting him drink. you shouldn t have cut off his liquor. you don t fire your host after the first couple of scandals, let the standards the scandals got to stack up. you got to get some. you got to get ratings. yes don lemon was a diva and he said a couple of women are raggedy interface, but that s the promotion of fox news. but i