Defund The Police Upset When Ypsilanti Funds Some Police

First, we should inform our readers that Ypsilanti is what you would call a diverse city right beside Ann Arbor.

Second, it is run by Democrats.

Third, we can note, as per the article, it has quite a lot of violent crime, in fact it's rate of violent crime of all types more than doubles the State of Michigan as a whole in just about every category and three times as much violent crime compared to the rest of the state per capita.  Ypsilanti also has one of the lowest violent crime clearance rates of a whopping 29% -- meaning you've got a 71 percent chance of committing a violent crime in Ypsilanti and getting away with it.

Fourth, so of course there was heated opposition that the city would hire 3 new police officers to deal with the shortage of police to deal with crime in the city.

MLive: ‘I hear the gunshots, I smell the gunpowder.’ Adding 3 police officers sparks debate in Ypsilanti

But it wasn’t the additional tax dollars being spent that upset Ypsilanti residents. Instead, the concerns were a reflection of a bigger debate happening nationwide about best policing practices.

“Everyone I know and love in Ypsilanti doesn’t want three more cops, we want three less cops, and eventually we want no cops,” Ypsilanti resident Jeff, also known as JC, said. He did not give his last name during public comment at the meeting. “Because people in this town can take care of each other. We have to vision how that will look, and I know there are a lot of us here that are willing to do that work.”

Yeah y'all been doing a bang-up job taking care of each other there bud. 

With a crime rate of about double that of the state at large I'm sure that once the police are gone, crime will vanish, neh?

Thankfully 4 of the city councilors have some sense and voted to approve hiring the officers.  3 voted against which is a rather sad commentary on the BLM Defund the Police insanity amongst city government officials these days.