West Hollywood Votes To Defund Sheriffs And Have Unarmed Security Ambassadors Instead. Good Luck With That!

Does it get any dumber than this?

According to the sourcelink, the city council of West Hollywood voted earlier this week to defund their sheriff’s department, in favor of having UNARMED “security ambassadors” instead.

Now, you might be asking yourself, “Self – could that be because crime rates are well controlled and on the decline in West Hollywood?” And the answer to that is NO. Crime rates have increased by 137 percent.

But who cares, right? It’s way more important to be woke than it is to keep your city’s citizens safe. Besides, the city council wants to have a cool new program called Block By Block, where instead of having 60 sheriffs on hand, they’ll have just 4, and then instead of armed sheriffs they’ll just have a bunch of randos patrolling the streets unable to do anything to actually stop whatever crime they happen to witness.

Great plan, city council!

Why did they do this? Oh, lots of reasons. One of the councilmembers, Sepi Shyne, said sheriffs cost too much, and believes that the council needed to be “fiscally responsible.”

Did I mention that the same council, in the same meeting, decided to increase funding for a Russian Arts Festival from $14,000 to $50,000?

Shyne also said, “Reimagining policing means reallocating funding. You can’t just say it without actually doing it. Period.” Shyne is committed to the talking point, by golly, and that’s that.

Another of the members said, “In my mind, this is an increase of safety services with 60 additional eyes on the street working directly with the residents and the sheriff and code compliance and our social services providers.”

Additional eyes are gonna be super helpful when dealing with, oh I don’t know, a gang fight, amirite? YAY FOR UNARMED EYES.

The mayor of West Hollywood voted against this ridiculousness, saying that the increase of violence warrants an armed safety team. Another councilman voted with her, but it was 3 against 2.

Meanwhile, from the sourcelink:

Residents are uneasy about the decision, WeHoville.com reported, saying that residents and business owners from all over the city have for the last few months expressed their deep concerns about cutting the sheriff’s budget in the midst of a crime wave, and at a time of general unease.

No word on whether those same residents and business owners are super stoked about the Russian Festival.

Good luck with all of that, West Hollywood. Criminals were just informed that it’s gonna get a whole lot easier to get away with crimes.