New York Post
By Selim Algar
Published Feb. 16, 2024, 1:32 p.m. ET
The woke mayor of Berkeley, Calif., who axed $10 million from the liberal bastion’s cop budget in 2020, has made an abrupt about-face and now wants to lead the charge against an alarming spike in crime.
“In Berkeley, my colleagues and I defunded $9,251,458 from the Berkeley Police Department, or 12% of the agency’s annual operating budget,” Jesse Arreguin wrote in a July 2020 San Francisco Chronicle column.
The cuts came amid cresting anti-police sentiment across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s violent death at the hands of law enforcement.