America woke up shocked this week to video scenes of a terrorist mowing down New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street.

While law enforcement looks for possible connections to international groups, there is a domestic factor closer to home that may also be a contributing factor: the post-George Floyd, “Defund the Police” movement which has stripped cities of much-needed on-duty police officers.

More than four years after the “defund the police” movement took hold, New Orleans has been suffering from a police shortage crisis.

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