Gallup polling found that 53% of surveyed Americans worry a “great deal” about crime, the highest level since 2016. The poll found an additional 27% of Americans are worried a “fair amount” about crime, with women, Republicans, and city residents among the most concerned.
S.254, an act relating to recovering damages for Article II violations by law enforcement and a report on qualified immunity, passed in the State Senate on March 24, 2022, by a vote of 19-11.
“Even as crime rises, some politicians continue to demonize and belittle law enforcement rather than support and stand by those who put their lives on the line every day.”
Short-staffed with an increase in serious “priority 1” calls for the year, police in Burlington had another busy weekend, this time responding to a double shooting at the Marketplace Parking Garage around 2 a.m. on Saturday.
Vermont is being flooded with out-of-state criminal actors who sell drugs and commit crimes, but progressive liars have racialized everything to undermine police and help criminals inflict crimes, recklessly placing both police officers and Vermonters at increasing risk.
Over the past two years Democrats in Montpelier and Washington have taken the approach that they can reduce crime by making fewer things a crime!
A bill stripping police of protections against civil rights lawsuits isn’t needed and would worsen Vermont’s already critical shortage of law-enforcement workers, Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Michael Shirling told the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 9.
Progressives on Burlington City Council blocked the confirmation of Jon Murad as the city’s police chief Monday night despite support by half of city councilors, the city’s police union and Mayor Miro Weinberger.
Over the past month, the Burlington Police Department has been busy with a handful of serious incidents including drug trafficking, car thefts and other alleged crimes.
Sen. Dick Sears is proposing legislation removing qualified immunity as a legal defense for Vermont policing personnel. The crux is a police officer could be held personally and financially accountable to up to $25,000 per incident per person.
Crime in California has skyrocketed over the past two years, with homicides in San Francisco jumping over 50% compared to 2019. Statewide, homicides, property crime, violent crime and larcenies have all risen. Retail thefts in particular have plagued the state, most notably in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“The real reason crime has been going up in Chittenden County is because Sarah George, the state’s attorney, and all her minions, refuse to lock up violent, recidivist criminals.”