Targeted by a New Year’s Day terrorist truck attack and semi-foiled pipe bombing plot, New Orleans is a charter member city of the MacArthur Foundation’s efforts to decriminalize crime, reduce police force effectiveness, lower minority jail populations and put fewer officers on the streets, commonly known as, “Defund the Police.”
Since 2019, New Orleans has received $18-million as a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge, a “defund the police” social justice program to enact jail equity population quotas and enact lax enforcement of violent crimes committed by BIPOC and African American suspects.
Both the Rapid City Police Department and Pennington County Sheriff’s Office have been past recipients of millions of dollars in the very same “Safety and Justice Challenge,” featuring a mission motto to “Rethink Local Justice Systems and Advance Racial Equity.” Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies advocated by the MacArthur “Safety” grant program include reduced minority inmate populations and racial equity quotas for both arrests and incarcerations.
Every participating jurisdiction in the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge program has seen a dramatic and immediate increase in violent crime, including Rapid City, which saw homicide rates rise from two or three murders a year to 20-25 per year during the program.
On December 27th, three suspects fired a hail of bullets from Rapid City’s scenic Skyline Drive down onto a shopping, restaurant and nightlife area on Jackson Boulevard. Security footage from area businesses showed bar customers scurrying for cover as bullets struck pavement and ricocheted in a sports lounge parking lot. Three men have been arrested in connection with that crime.
Suicide truck rampage attacker Shamsud Jin-Dabbar turned onto New Orleans famous Bourbon Street early New Year’s morning and accelerated to nearly 100 miles per hour, careening through partiers, killing 16 so far and leaving more than 100 more injured, many critically.
Shamsud Jin–Dabbar was killed in a shootout with police officers after crashing the rented Ford 150 pickup. An ISIS flag and other pro-Islam paraphernalia were found in the truck and during a search of Jin-Dabbar’s home. A powerful hydraulic vehicle blockade system meant to guard Bourbon Street from exactly this kind of attack was inexplicably left down during the New Year’s celebrations at the legendary tourist haunt. Critics have alleged a stand down of the blockade system, which has been consistently raised to protect pedestrians and keep vehicles from accessing New Orleans French Quarter during heavily attended celebrations.
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