“Austin, like San Francisco and places like Philadelphia, are eating their own vomit when it comes to their ‘Defund the Police’ movements that were so popular amongst their progressive politicians and riots of 2020,” a recently conformed liberal from south Austin explained.

“They can keep Austin weird by welcoming all the California idiots moving in,” Sid Hernandez continued. “I’m moving my family out away from all this growing crime.”

Hernandez, like many Austinites, place the blame square on the far-left progressive city council.

“Actually, we the citizens, are to blame for voting these nuts in,” he admitted. “We live in a bubble, a nest of progressives chirping the same nonsense. We tried it. It was stupid. Just like Biden and our nutcases on city council. The Woke experiment has backfired.”

Due to the council’s actions the past few years the Austin police force has dropped to less than 2,250 officers. This results in 2.6 police officers per 1,000 residents which is 10.3% less than the Texas average and 17% less than the National average.

Today:

• Austin crime rates are 63% higher than the national average
• Violent crimes in Austin are 27% higher than the national average
• In Austin you have a 1 in 27 chance of becoming a victim of crime
• Austin is safer than only 13% of the cities in the United States
• Year over year crime in Austin has decreased by 7%

Philadelphia has the same experiences. Back in 2020, their city council members voted to cut $33 million in police funding amid the rise of the “Defund the Police” movement.

They also voted to eliminate supposedly “racist” policies like stop and frisk, mandated that the police department hire “equity” managers, and required “implicit bias training” for officers.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in March that all five of the city council members currently running for mayor have made public safety and supporting police a top issue.

In a complete turnaround, none of them have proposed cutting even one penny from the city’s $800 million police budget, and several have even proposed increasing funding for new police equipment and training.

Austin, Philadelphia, San Francisco, along with St. Louis, Louisville, Seattle, Atlanta and other liberal led cities are finally showing signs of growing divisions within the Democrat Party over the far-left criminal justice “reform” movement.

“This has become just too radical for the radicals,” Hernandez explains it. “Their grand utopian experiment has failed us, and we are headed back towards the safety of traditional American values. The New World Order, George Soros, Bill Gates crap is just that: controlled crap!”

One such case has festered out of the failed policies of control that came from the false narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic period. Liberals in Philadelphia have found themselves at odds over a new proposed policy banning ski masks in the city.

Amid a dramatic spike in violent crime in the City of Brotherly Love, some Democrat leaders are now pushing for a ban on full-face coverings like ski masks and balaclavas.

The proposed legislation, which most of the overwhelmingly Democrat City Council supports, would prohibit wearing the garments on public property like inside schools, at city parks, and on public transit. Anyone who violates the ordinance could be subject to a $250 fine.

Philadelphia recorded more than 500 homicides for the second year in a row in 2022, while overall violent crime increased seven percent from the already record highs in 2021.

Today, 2023 doesn’t look any better. Crime is 71% higher than the national average.

In many cases, perpetrators wear face coverings, making it difficult for police to identify them. The Philadelphia police department has proclaimed  that face masks are the “number one” obstacle to solving homicides.

Democrat Councilman Anthony Phillips, the sponsor of the ski mask ban, has said the proliferation of ski masks being used by people committing crimes has forced police to work harder and is “a problem that we cannot ignore.”

States like Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, and Florida already have bans on full face coverings in public places. With similarly drastic crime problems, other cities are also considering bans of their own.

However, not everyone on the left is a fan of the sudden urge of some Democrat leaders to crack down on crime. Kristin Henning, a liberal professor at Georgetown Law School, has argued that banning ski masks amounts to “traumatizing Black and brown children who are more likely to come into contact with police as a result,” further calling Philadelphia’s law a “criminalization of normal adolescent fads and trends.”

The ski mask debate highlights the larger trend within the Democrat Party of shifting attitudes on the criminal justice “reform” movement as crime spirals out of control.

Much of this newfound interest in law and order is likely attributable to mounting voter backlash over rising crime.

In San Francisco earlier this year, far-left (Soros funded) prosecutor Chesa Boudin – once seen as a rising star within the Democrat Party – saw many of his high-profile liberal supporters, including Mayor London Breed, abandon him ahead of his recall election. That recall effort was ultimately successful, sending a clear message that, even in deep blue areas like San Francisco, voters will only put up with so much lawlessness and chaos.

The growing divide over criminal justice policies has also been on display at the national level as well.

In March, White House resident Joe Biden signed a resolution blocking a D.C. crime bill that would have slashed prison sentences and virtually ended prosecution of many offenses, even as crime in the nation’s capital continues to soar.

The Republican-led resolution gained a surprising amount of Democrat support in the House and Senate, yet was still opposed by the majority of the party.

Many Democrats were outraged over Biden’s decision to sign the bill, calling it a “complete betrayal.”

D.C.’s non-voting delegate, Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, said specifically that Democrat senators only voted for the resolution because, “with the nationwide increase in crime, most senators do not want to be seen as supporting criminal justice reform.”

After more than two years in which virtually every Democrat fully embraced the most radical excesses of the criminal justice “reform” movement, the sudden reversal toward support has left many liberals frustrated.

In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times last month, columnist Nicholas Goldberg lamented Boudin’s ousting, saying that voters “didn’t give him enough of a chance.”

Goldberg also complained about “powerful political pressure from police and prison guard unions,” a tired old tactic deployed often by proponents of far-left criminal justice policies to dismiss very real concerns by the public about their safety.

With crime a top issue for voters throughout the country, the growing rift within the Democrat Party over how to address it is sure to grow. With powerful donors like George and Alexander Soros continuing to push soft-on-crime policies, but voters making clear they want safer streets and tougher punishments for criminals, Democrats could be headed for a self-induced electoral reckoning.

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