Justice Dept. brands NYC an 'anarchist jurisdiction,' targets federal funds

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: New York Post

NEWS exclusive
Justice Dept. brands NYC an 'anarchist jurisdiction,' targets federal funds
By Steven Nelson September 21, 2020 6:02am Updated September 21, 2020 6:42am

New York City was among three cities labeled "anarchist jurisdictions" by the Justice Department on Sunday and targeted to lose federal money for failing to control protesters and defunding cops, The Post has learned. ... Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., were the other two cities on the list, which was approved by US Attorney General William Barr.

"When state and local leaders impede their own law-enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest," Barr said in a statement set to be released Monday. ... "We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance,'' the AG added.

"It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens."

White House Budget Director Russ Vought is set to issue guidance to federal agencies on withdrawing funds from the cities in less than two weeks. ... The list of cities eligible for defunding will be updated periodically, the feds have said. ... It is not yet clear what funds are likely to be cut, but the amount of money siphoned from New York City could be massive, given the Big Apple gets about $7 billion in annual federal aid.

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Read more: https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/nyc-branded-an-anarchist-jurisdiction-targeted-for-defunding-doj/

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

DOJ Labels Three Cities As "Anarchist Jurisdictions"
September 21, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/09/doj-labels-three-cities-as-anarchist-jurisdictions/

[Illumination]

1. WATCH OUT BARR! They may be coming for you & or doing some defunding of YOU!

[Mr. Ected]

2. Then the US federal government is an ANARCHIST GOVERNMENT

In the way in which they handled the COVID crisis.

What would they do with a second term?

[sinkingfeeling]

3. The cities should stop collecting federal taxes or refuse to send to Feds.

[Midnight Writer]

4. "When...leaders impede their own law enforcement...from doing their jobs"? This is rich.

[Python boot]

5. Treasonous

New York State sends over 250 billion per year in tax receipts to the federal government. They only get Sven Billion in federal assistance. Maybe New York needs to defund Washington d. C. This is treasonous behavior. The sitting AG and the budget director are acting illegally.

[groundloop]

6. As if Democrats need any more incentive to be motivated to vote..... what a crock of shit.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Time to start the impeachment process of Barr

This is a damn shame because of course, all House members have to campaign for re-election and doing impeachment hearings in the final months of an election season is time-consuming (which they know and is why Barr is doing all of this ridiculous disruption and distraction).

It basically forces the expenditure of resources (personnel, time, and funds) to file suit and tie up the courts with nonsense due to this kind of bullshit, in order to put what has to be the millionth restraining order on this administration.

[SergeStorms]

8. Every morning I wake up and wonder...

"well, what sort of fascist bullshit have they pulled overnight". Every morning I'm disappointed to learn that these lawless, fascist bastards have done more than I'd ever dreamed. I can't put into words how disappointed, and how OUTRAGEOUSLY PISSED OFF I am about this ridiculous shit.

If Joe Biden doesn't win the presidential election I'm getting the fuck out of this country. The United States of America will cease to exist, and there will be no reason for this 70 year old man to remain within it's fascist borders.

[world wide wally]

27. I want our country back!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. From the source:

Home » Office of Public Affairs » News

JUSTICE NEWS
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, September 21, 2020

Department Of Justice Identifies New York City, Portland And Seattle As Jurisdictions Permitting Violence And Destruction Of Property

Identification is Response to Presidential Memorandum Reviewing Federal Funding to State and Local Governments that are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities

The U.S. Department of Justice today identified the following three jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities: New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The Department of Justice is continuing to work to identify jurisdictions that meet the criteria set out in the President’s Memorandum and will periodically update the list of selected jurisdictions as required therein.

The list was published on DOJ’s website today in response to President Trump’s memorandum of September 2, 2020, entitled “Memorandum on Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities.”

“When state and local leaders impede their own law enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance. It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens.”

Criteria for evaluating each city is below:

• Whether a jurisdiction forbids the police force from intervening to restore order amid widespread or sustained violence or destruction.
• Whether a jurisdiction has withdrawn law enforcement protection from a geographical area or structure that law enforcement officers are lawfully entitled to access but have been officially prevented from accessing or permitted to access only in exceptional circumstances, except when law enforcement officers are briefly withheld as a tactical decision intended to resolve safely and expeditiously a specific and ongoing unlawful incident posing an imminent threat to the safety of individuals or law enforcement officers.
• Whether a jurisdiction disempowers or defunds police departments.
• Whether a jurisdiction unreasonably refuses to accept offers of law enforcement assistance from the Federal Government.
• Any other related factors the Attorney General deems appropriate.

New York City

• Shootings in New York City have been on the rise since looting and protests began on or about May 28, 2020. For July 2020, shootings increased from 88 to 244, an increase of 177% over July 2019. In August 2020, shootings increased from 91 to 242, a 166% increase over August 2019.
• While the city faced increased unrest, gun violence, and property damage, the New York City Council cut $1 billion from NYPD’s FY21 budget.
• The budget resulted in the cancellation of the new police recruiting class, cuts to overtime spending, and the transfer of certain police functions, including school safety, out of the NYPD.
• Meanwhile, the Manhattan and Brooklyn District Attorneys have declined to prosecute charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly arising from the protests, and the District Attorneys in Queens and the Bronx have declined to prosecute other protest-related charges.
• Both Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo have forcefully rejected federal law enforcement support.

Portland, Oregon

• This month, Portland marked 100 consecutive nights of protests marred by vandalism, chaos, and even killing.
• Those bent on violence regularly started fires, threw projectiles at law enforcement officers, and destroyed property. Numerous law enforcement officers, among others, suffered injury.
• Shootings increased by more than 140% in June and July 2020 compared to the same period last year.
• In the midst of this violence, the Portland City Council cut $15 million from the police bureau, eliminating 84 positions. Crucially, the cuts included the Gun Violence Reduction Team, which investigates shootings, and several positions from the police team that responds to emergency incidents.
• In August, Portland Mayor Wheeler sent a letter to President Trump expressly rejecting the Administration’s offer of federal law enforcement to stop the violent protests.

Seattle, Washington

• For nearly a month, starting in June, the City of Seattle permitted anarchists and activists to seize six square blocks of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, naming their new enclave the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) and then the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP).
• Law enforcement and fire fighters were precluded from entering the territory. The Seattle Police Department was ordered to abandon their precinct within the CHOP.
• Person-related crime in the CHOP increased 525% from the same period of time in the same area the year before, including by Mayor Durkan’s own count “two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings).”
• The CHOP was allowed to stand for nearly a month, during which time two teenagers were shot and killed in the zone.
• The Seattle City Council, Mayor Durkan, and Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly rejected federal involvement in law enforcement activities within the city of Seattle.

Component(s):
Office of the Attorney General

Press Release Number:
20-966

Updated September 21, 2020

[mjvpi]

18. So much for "states rights".

Another point of Republican hypocrisy.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. And Seattle cleared out CHOP

With no help from the fat ass twins Trump and Barr

[ashredux]

10. This time next year Mr. Barr will be wearing an orange jumpsuit...

[mountain grammy]

11. Wow. Unbelievable.

Has this ever been done before?

[beachbumbob]

12. expected move for sure as trump/gop politicizes the govt as a weapon

we need to remember when "we " take over that all things are in the table too

[Yeehah]

13. Less than four months left for this criminal regime

and they will be prosecuted for their crimes against the American people.

[highplainsdem]

14. Barr thinks he's head of Trump's Gestapo. He's probably hoping there'll eventually be a uniform.

I'm hoping there will soon be a trial and prison sentence for him.

[cayugafalls]

15. America brands Trump Administration a 'Fascist Administration.'

Criminal Toad slip back under your mud.

[chriscan64]

16. Declaring the Democratic Party illegitimate has gone from rhetorical to quasi-legal.

I don't think it will happen, but this is another step on the path of one party rule.

[2naSalit]

17. ...

?w=1014

[roamer65]

19. Time to target taker states like KY, AL and MS.

Also remove all agricultural subsidies.

[progressoid]

20. Unfuckingbelievable.

[Stuart G]

22. Shows how stupid Trump, etc are...Getting more ..STUPID EVERY DAY.!!!

What idiot decided this?..It says Barr, must have been approved by Trump...

New York City ..."Anarchist Jurisdiction" ? STUPIDITY HAS REACHED A NEW HIGHT.

[dchill]

36. "...approved by Trump..."

DICTATED by Trump.

[dalton99a]

23. Kick

[Initech]

24. He is going full Hitler... and you never go full Hitler.

[Thekaspervote]

25. A love the smell of law suits in the morning

[LiberalArkie]

26. Kick federal agencies out of city buildings.

[llashram]

28. Barr is such a POS

fully compromised by the other POS's in the WH.

[demmiblue]

29. Defunding the police... I hope Biden runs with that!

[Bayard]

30. Wonder why he's targeting Dem cities?

I predict many lawsuits over this bullshit. And a blue tsunami in November.

[aggiesal]

31. So the DOJ finds a way to defund the police ...

by de-funding the cities that pay for the Police Departments.

Smart move, idiots!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. DOJ finds a way to defund the police

Needs to be repeated far and wide

[aggiesal]

33. We should start a General Discussion just with that exact title. n/t

[turbinetree]

34. Now they are really desperate...........to there fascist cause to implement authoritarian rule.....

and the only reason why they want to do this, is so that they can send in the fucking army or whoever and declare martial law................Bill Barr is really a fucking asshole and for this budget director asshole to just pull funds, maybe that asshole should be defunded............... maybe they should look at the traitors sitting in the white house, maybe its time that Congress shut the fucking water and electricity off.......................and no garbage collection......................

[dchill]

35. Barr is suffering from guilt-induced sleep deprivation.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. New York attorney general readies lawsuit after Trump's DOJ labels NYC 'anarchist jurisdiction,'

New York Attorney General Letitia James warned on Monday she is preparing a lawsuit after President Donald Trump's Justice Department labeled New York City an "anarchist jurisdiction" and threatened to withhold federal grant money.

Trump "is trying to distract the American people from his failures as a leader and is using the last few months of his presidency to sow more chaos, more hatred, and more fear," James said in a statement.

"The president should be prepared to defend this illegal order in court, which hypocritically lays the groundwork to defund New York and the very types of law enforcement President Trump pretends to care about."

Earlier Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also vowed to challenge the administration in court if it followed through on its threat to cut off funds to NYC.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-president-is-not-above-the-law-gov-andrew-cuomo-vows-to-challenge-trump-s-doj-after-it-labels-nyc-an-anarchist-jurisdiction/ar-BB19gQla?li=BBnbfcQ

I'm sure Washington and Oregon will be joining the lawsuit. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has been rather successful in taking on the Trump Misadministration.

[QED]

38. It's all about owning the libs. Nt

[pecosbob]

39. Okay...next Dem prez should issue an EO naming the SPLC as arbiter of hate and race crimes

Then...
1. Declare every existing militia not authorized by it's state government to be terrorists
2. Disband every city government in the dirty South (and some in the North as well) for aiding and abetting known terrorists
3. Permamently disband every police union in the nation for RICO violations