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It’s rather amusing. The people who voted for far left politicians to enact far left crime policies are surprised that far left crime policies were enacted. And do not like the outcome

Workers in Democrat-run North Carolina tourist city bemoan downtown decline: ‘Really disturbing’

Business owners and workers in a Democrat-run North Carolina tourist town said their downtown district is deteriorating amid rising crime, rampant homelessness and diminishing police.

Multiple people who work in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, bemoaned the condition of the city and pinpointed a lack of police presence to its decline, according to an investigation by local outlet Asheville Watchdog.

“We really need beat cops, police on bicycles,” Rose Garfinkle, who lives and works downtown, told the outlet. “The lack of a police presence is noticeable. Things have taken a turn in the last five years.”

Violent crime has spiked in the historic mountain town during recent years amid an influx of people moving in from out of state. Violent crime in Asheville per 100,000 people increased 31% between 2016 and 2020 – nearly double the national average and 18 percentage points higher than North Carolina’s 13% increase statewide during the same period.

What did they think they were going to get? Every single person on the city council, including the mayor and vice mayor, are far, far left radical Progressives. The city attorney is also a far left zealot. This is what the vast majority of Asheville residents voted for. Buncombe County voted 59% for Biden, which was much higher in Asheville, with the rest of the county leaning GOP. It’s an 82% white city, that voted with progressive values. And, when they see their progressive values in action in their own city they are unhappy. Seriously, Neighborhood Scout rates the city as a 1 (100 is safest). That’s not good.

Asheville Police Department Chief David Zack told Fox News Digital last fall that his department is straining to operate at 42% down every day after losing more than 100 sworn officers since summer 2020, when tear gas-choked protests against police snarled downtown for days. Break-ins saw a 200% monthly surge in January, according to local ABC affiliate WLOS.

Well, when the Democrat loons demonize police officers, yammer about defunding them, they leave, and it’s hard to replace them, because there aren’t that many Democrats willing to step up and be law enforcement officers.

Another person reportedly tried to steal a bottle of nail polish and proceeded to paint all over the fitting room before vomiting in the store, and another individual urinated in front of the cash registers.

Management also encountered a homeless person who defecated in front of the store multiple times. Homeless were also camping in front of the store regularly, and one became aggressive, kicking things and brandishing a weapon that resembled a table leg.

Trash, needles and blankets caked with human excrement have also been repeatedly strewn in front of the business.

And you know that is being repeated all over the city. Nor is it something that just happened overnight, it’s something that grew and grew, and now they’re votes have come back to bite them in the posterior. It’s a wonderful city, ruined, like so many others, by left wing idiocy.