A San Francisco, California, resident’s plea to recover a stolen truck went viral after netizens uncovered her calls to defund the police. “If you see a 26 foot U-Haul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it,” Darcie Bell posted on X.
Bell filed a police complaint, followed by a social media tirade about them failing to recover her stolen truck immediately. “I haven’t found my sh*t! The cops didn’t do sh*t! U-Haul made me file a f—ing police report!” she told The Washington Post. “There’s cameras all over this city. They haven’t done s—! … I just want my stuff back!”
Despite her predicament, the irony was not lost on social media users when a “Defund the Police” activist complained about their failure to recover her stolen property. “Anti Police activist begs the police to help her after she was robbed…,” posted the San Francisco Bay Area politics account Bay State of Mind.
Two months earlier, Bell had advocated for defunding the police, saying, “We pay them a whole lot to do less.” She was responding to an anti-police campaign that sold the “Defund the Police” masks. She posted an accompanying chart aiming to show that police spending was up in the Bay Area as the already anemic crime clearance rate has gone done – though the chart actually shows police spending decreasing at least 30% from 2019 in inflation-adjusted terms.
In fact, the number of full time cops on the streets there dropped from nearly 1,900 in 2017 to about 1,500 in 2023.
The size of the police’s budget and force aside, San Francisco’s police force has effectively been prevented from doing their jobs due to the far-left progressives on the city council – and even an increase in the number of police wouldn’t stop that.
To save herself from the embarrassment, Bell claimed she did not call the police. She also threatened to respond to tweets calling her out for the hypocrisy with ad hominem attacks.
An anti-police socialist group called “Defund the San Francisco Police Department Now,” wants the SFPD defunded, disarmed, and disbanded and the funds reinvested in the “Brown and Black communities.” “We must reimagine public safety, defund the police, and refund our communities,” the group says, adding that “roughly 99% of police calls for service are not in response to violence but property crime and non-criminal matters.”
That’s hardly surprising in a world where the overwhelming majority of crimes are non-violent. It’s also worth noting that the average progressive doesn’t think armed robbery is violence as long as nobody gets physically injured.
Ironically, the crime that Bell has fallen victim to is in that “99%” of crimes that defund the police activists don’t think count as real crimes.
Oh well.
