Don’t you love it when the media helps to cause a problem by advancing a leftist narrative, then reports on the problem as if they’re an innocent bystander just covering the news?

The United States has a police officer shortage right now. The media is partly to blame for this, but they’ll never admit it.

They will never come right out and say that they advanced the left’s demonization of the police for months at the behest of the activist left.

From NBC News:

The U.S. is experiencing a police hiring crisis

America is in the midst of a police officer shortage that many in law enforcement blame on the twofold morale hit of 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic and criticism of police that boiled over with the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over police work to their county sheriff, a neighboring town or state police…

At least 521 U.S. towns and cities with populations of 1,000 to 200,000 disbanded policing between 1972 and 2017, according to a peer-reviewed 2022 paper by Rice University Professor of Economics Richard T. Boylan.

In the past two years, at least 12 small towns have dissolved their departments…

At the heart of the problem is the exodus from law enforcement. Officer resignations were up 47% last year compared to 2019 — the year before the pandemic and Floyd’s killing — and retirements are up 19%.

Do the people at NBC News think no one understands how this happened?

Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. https://t.co/3LcadeeXmQ

— Torrey M. Spears (@torreymspears) September 6, 2023

Yes ppl don’t generally rush to apply for jobs that others have been conditioned to hate

— paige s. (@PaigeSully88) September 6, 2023

Top TOP* levels of our federal leadership were flagrantly encouraging political violence, rioters were being coddled and excused, officials were calling for the "defunding" of police departments, now the #soft_on_crime Democrats are surprised at the disastrous results??

— G-Dada, Free-Speech Test Pilot (@gregzink) September 6, 2023

The whole concept of ‘Defund the Police’ should go down in history as one of the dumbest things ever suggested.

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Backstabbing former Trump Attorney General turned election integrity grifter Bill Barr is now pretending to care about election integrity in Arizona, where he gave no help during the stolen 2020 election.

Barr is reportedly behind the Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections lawsuit with Arizona Free Enterprise Club to prohibit the Arizona Secretary of State from enforcing illegal election procedures relating to mail-in ballot signature verification. Barr sits on the board of directors for Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections.

BREAKING! Bill Barr’s RITEUSA issues press release acknowledging illegal Arizona Ballot Signature Verification Process used in 2020 and 2022. RITEUSA announces lawsuit win demanding an end to corrupt processes used in Arizona elections.https://t.co/XqSDqxOFCj pic.twitter.com/Rd2LPqJPuA

— True the Vote (@TrueTheVote) September 6, 2023

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier on a new court order that makes Arizona’s current, fraud-ridden mail-in ballot signature verification protocols illegal. This is a big win, but where the hell did Barr come from now supporting election integrity efforts and still backstabbing President Trump over the stolen 2020 election?

These same illegal procedures were used in the 2020 election. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the current standards for mail-in ballots allowed hundreds of thousands of fake ballots with fraudulent signatures to be counted in Arizona’s 2020 Presidential Election. Too bad former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich was also too weak to investigate or prosecute the crimes.

BREAKING HUGE: “Voter Identity Theft” – Arizona Judge Defines Voter Registration Record, Rules that Mail-In Ballot Signatures Have Been Compared Illegally! – ORDER INCLUDED

This comes after he failed monumentally by not addressing the many crimes in the 2020 Election; he lied and claimed that “The [2020] election was not stolen. Trump lost it” and lied about his “investigations” finding no evidence of fraud.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on Barr’s failure with the 2020 election.

He now trashes President Trump with anti-Trump Fox News host Neil Cavuto, recently saying he thinks the indictments against Trump are “legitimate.”

But now we’re supposed to believe he is an election integrity hero?

Give me a break.

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