Blue City Officers Flocking To Cop-friendly Red States, Police Leader Says: ‘why Would Anyone Stay?’

Law enforcement officers successful areas chiefly tally by Democrats proceed to flock to reddish states for occupation security, amended salary and bosses who will backmost them up, according to 1 constabulary leader.

Joe Gamaldi is nan nationalist vice president of nan Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). He is an progressive lieutenant pinch nan Houston Police Department, and he said constabulary successful bluish cities are tired of facing hostility from section leaders. 

"What we've seen is really a wide exodus of constabulary officers leaving far-left cities for fundamentally greener pastures," he told Fox News Digital. 

"Because, ultimately, group want to consciousness appreciated for what they do. And erstwhile you person a leader — successful this case, mayors aliases metropolis councils, who regularly telephone you a portion of crap to nan nationalist — why would anyone stay?

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Indiana State Police protect nan governor's residence arsenic protesters marched from Monument Circle to nan governor's location June 1, 2020. (Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar via Imagn Content Services, LLC)

Florida is 1 illustration of a Republican-led authorities that has benefited from nan wide departures. 

According to a 2024 statement from erstwhile Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, nan authorities welcomed 5,000 rule enforcement recruits betwixt 2022 and past year, and 1,200 of them came from retired of state. 

"Florida is nan most pro-law enforcement authorities successful nan federation because we backmost our blue," Moody said astatine nan time. "We’ve been spreading nan connection astir each nan awesome incentives to subordinate our ranks, and individuals for illustration nan caller Sarasota recruits person answered nan call, leaving down places wherever their work was not arsenic appreciated arsenic it is here."

She said she was "as inspired arsenic ever to proceed doing each we tin to show our support to those who bravely protect and serve" aft seeing nan influx of constabulary officers into nan state. 

People locomotion successful Washington, D.C., aft "Defund The Police" was painted connected nan thoroughfare adjacent nan White House June 8, 2020. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Gamaldi said officers are besides moving to cities that whitethorn thin bluish but are successful reddish states and still person nan support of elected activity and nan community, adding officers are "voting pinch their feet."

"We're besides seeing it [in] Texas successful Houston, which is simply a metropolis that leans a small blue, but they person been supportive of constabulary officers," he said. "The politician location has fixed a monolithic raise to constabulary officers. You're seeing officers spell there. You're seeing officers spell to Dallas. So, you're seeing each these communities, and there's 1 communal thread. It's ‘We support constabulary officers.'" 

Joe Gamaldi tells Fox News Digital knowledgeable constabulary officers are moving distant from bluish cities en masse. (Fox News Digital)

Gamaldi emphasized that nan inclination began aft nan 2020 defund nan constabulary activity and said, successful galore cities, rule enforcement officers are acrophobic to do their jobs successful "critical incident" situations, moreover erstwhile they do them by nan book. 

"I deliberation you tin look nary further than Seattle, Portland, Chicago [and] New York," he said. "All of these cities person fundamentally told their constabulary officers, 'We don't support you. We're not gonna beryllium location for you erstwhile you request us. We're gonna effort to defund you erstwhile fixed nan opportunity.'

A demonstrator holds a motion that says "Defund nan police" during a protestation Sept. 6, 2020, complete nan decease of a Black man, Daniel Prude, aft constabulary put a spit hood complete his caput during an apprehension successful Rochester, N.Y..  (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

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"I mean, my goodness, correct now, 1 of nan mayoral candidates for New York has actively said he wants to defund and dismantle nan constabulary department," Gamaldi said, referring to socialist Zohran Mamdani, who has been unfastened pinch his anti-police rhetoric. 

Blue cities, Gamaldi said, are worse disconnected for driving retired their constabulary forces.

Police successful riot cogwheel situation nan Arizona Capitol aft protesters reached nan beforehand of nan Arizona Senate building successful guidance to nan Supreme Court determination to overturn nan landmark Roe v. Wade abortion determination June 24, 2022, successful Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

"Look astatine nan wide exodus of acquisition successful solving cases and acquisition of conscionable mentoring nan adjacent procreation of constabulary officers," he said. "I mean, nan harm that was done successful 2020 pinch nan defund nan constabulary movement, rhat's going to resound for decades. You don't conscionable retrieve from thing for illustration that erstwhile you person each of that acquisition stepping retired nan door."

He besides pointed to amended salary and different financial perks, for illustration cities covering moving expenses, arsenic reasons rule enforcement officers are moving distant from far-left areas.

Blue cities are worse disconnected for not supporting their constabulary officers, Gamaldi said. (Getty Images)

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Ultimately, he posed a mobility to those who patrol nan streets wherever they are unappreciated, saying, "Why not leave?"

"To anyone watching this correct now," Gamaldi said, "if your leader was perpetually telling you [that] you're doing a horrible job, and, successful addition, if you were pursuing nan nonstop policies, training and nan rule of your job, and yet they are still demonizing you, still throwing you nether nan bus, still trying to indict you, why nan hellhole would you stay?"