DPD has roughly 3,000 sworn officers, which falls short of the City’s 2015 recommendation of 4,000 officers. This police shortage is paired with increasing response times to emergency calls, as previously reported by DX.

“The Ferguson Effect is a real thing. Police officers started to back away from enforcement," Knezovich said. "You saw it across the nation. You wonder why you see less and less enforcement and more and more crime, it's woke politicians and activists and the media have made it so. They wanted us to disengage.”

“When Rachel walked into her restaurant's kitchen, she found a stranger there grilling spam. She said he appeared to be homeless. She offered him money but he wouldn't leave. Then some of her customers left out of fear. He eventually took some of her mail and left.”