Rep. Andy Biggs asks Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to examine corresponding calls to 'defund' police, crime wave
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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., in a Wednesday letter asked Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee, D-Texas, to schedule a hearing to examine calls to "defund the police" and a possible correlation with rising violent crime in U.S. cities.
"Violent crime is exploding in cities across America that have defunded the police," Biggs said in a Wednesday statement. "These Democrat-run cities have maliciously attacked and smeared our police forces, but can’t understand why our officers are leaving the field in droves and why crime rates continue to sky-rocket." He added that lawmakers "must defend the thin blue line and restore law and order by holding the Democrats accountable for this destructive agenda."More Related News