Much of state grant money for traffic enforcement goes unspent in Oregon. Overall, cities and counties only spent 59% of the money given them by the state “for law enforcement work focused on speeding, impaired and distracted driving, seatbelt use, and pedestrian safety.” When asked why the money wasn’t used, the local agencies guilty of underspending pointed to staffing shortages as one of the excuses – shortages caused in no small part by the woke progressives’ incessant calls to defund police everywhere. Even if the federal government loosens the rules so that the grant dollars can be spent on other things besides overtime, until the left’s defund the police culture goes away, and law enforcement agencies stop hemorrhaging officers, the number of traffic fatalities will continue to rise – one more thing to thank the Democridiots for.
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