[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 115 (Thursday, July 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H3590-H3591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 ENDING CRISIS OF CRIME ON CITY STREETS

  (Mr. NEHLS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Speaker, there is a crisis of crime on our city 
streets. Violent crime is up double digits in Seattle, Portland, 
Austin, Oakland, and major cities across our great country.

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  The increase in violent crime is the predictable result of liberal 
cities defunding and undermining their law enforcement, like in Austin, 
Texas, where the far-left city council cut $150 million from their 
police budget. What did we see weeks later? A doubling in the number of 
murders.
  Just this week, the police chief of Oakland, California, begged 
publicly for the city council not to cut the police department budget 
because it would result in more crime.
  When you cut law enforcement budgets, you reduce the number of law 
enforcement officers. When you reduce the number of law enforcement 
officers, more criminals will be on the streets.
  This is not rocket science. Stop attacking, undermining, and 
defunding law enforcement, and the crisis of crime will stop being a 
crisis.

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