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By Michael Bielawski
According to the year-end Burlington Police Department report, while progress was made in 2023 towards replenishing their ranks after a 2020 defunding, it has largely been lost in 2024.
“Since July 01, 2020, staffing has fallen by nearly 30 sworn officers,” the report states. “During that time, incident volume has risen.”
The department will start the year with 63 officers, down from 92 which is how many they had in 2020 just after the City Council voted to reduce the force by about a third via attrition.
“An officer exodus ensued,” the report states. “In Oct 2021, the council raised the cap from 74 to 87, but it was not until a strong police contract was ratified in July 2022 that headcount stabilized. Since then, the BPD has worked to rebuild, but after significant success in 2023, the BPD lost progress and rolled back in 2024.”
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They are waiting for installation of the kiosks to fight crime. Burlington will be safe, not until they build the kiosks!!!!!
Of all police forces in Vermont, or the country, why would you choose to work in Burington? You can’t even speak as the leader without getting your memo’s approved by the mayor, who perhaps has little experience in law enforcement, perhaps a bit too much in community organizing.
Hence our problem.
First Amendment freedoms have been restored to most of to the American People, but marxist holdouts like the People’s Republic of Burlington still see free expression as a threat to democracy. Can’t imagine what is the motivation for a law enforcement officer to want to serve in Burlington, but the vulnerable, honest citizens surely must harbor some level of gratitude for them.
Ha!! I hope the entire BPD quits!! Then the ENTIRE blame will rightfully fall on city “leadership”!! As it is, the mayor is avoiding the full consequence of their stupid actions by the BPD stepping into the breach, even though they are short-staffed.
Want a REAL mouthful of progressive policy?? Try a month of NO police! Survivors can let us know how it went.🤣🤣🤣
So when the ” DEI ” Mayor of Burlington, wants to ride slipshod over the Police Department, like her and the gaggle of fools, the” City Council “, we understand they are power-hungry fools, and believe they are in control, maybe they need to take a look around the city, Crime, Drugs, and Homelessness on every street corner………..
And the taxpayers keep funding it all, I believe the entire Police force should up and walk out……………………the DEI Mayor needs to be turfed out and held accountable for the destruction of the city under her watch, with a complete audit of the expenditures
of the city, I assume the books won’t balance !!
Wake up people,
Burlington is going in the wrong direction….look at this interview with the mayor of NY….it shows how out of touch Vermont truly has become.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1881854369894703418
For the city leadership to facilitate their once-great city’s continued spiral into lawless anarchy is not an appropriate way of publicly expressing their anger about the election results. Most of the rest of our country has gotten past the unfounded and pathological race obsession over George Floyd’s death (not murder). I believe the expression sometimes used is “cutting off one’s nose to spite your face”. The minority of decent, honest, productive citizens, business owners, taxpayers and especially public safety officers of Burlington deserve better than to be used as ideological pawns in the left’s continued public manifestations of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Mayor Emma-Hyphen should be crawling on broken glass in appreciation for the critical first responders, as often it is police who are first on the scene of apparent overdoses to administer lifesaving Narcan, and save lives in her beloved junkie community.