Cities that block ICE could lose police, rape kit funding, DOJ says

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/16/us-cities-police-ambulance-funding-rape-kits-ice-doj/90903355007/

For more information, either visit the article directly or view the post with quotes in crimes_of_ice:

https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4382443

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35 Comments

paranoid@lemmy.world · 141 pts · 18d (7 replies)

That's an oddly specific thing to withhold funds from

IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 83 pts · 18d

It's not really surprising. Rape as a weapon of war seems to be common amongst both existing theocratic states and those trying to establish one.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 18d (1 reply)

As 40% of police beat their spouses, it's been the only budget cut departments are consistently willing to champion.

SwifferWetjet@thelemmy.club · 19 pts · 18d

Hey, hey, HEY! That statistic from 20 years ago says that 40% SELF-REPORTED ABUSING their spouse! I am going to die on the hill of the difference between domestic abuse and domestic violence!

This is sarcasm, if not obvious

Rusticus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 18d (2 replies)

POTUS thinks rape is fake news.

Tiral@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 18d (1 reply)
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Rusticus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 18d

Why are you replying to me - do you think Trumps accusers are lying?

In human history I know of no better example of an absolute and obviously guilty rapist, including children, than Donald fucking Trump. JFC he’s on video admitting it.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 17d

Republicans hate women.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 18d

That’s a mobster threat.

tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 18d

Literal absolute monsters.

aarch0x40@piefed.social · 33 pts · 18d (1 reply)

I'm surprised rape kit funding didn't get DOGE'd

joyjoy@piefed.social · 4 pts · 18d

Completely agree, but not because "woke" but because most rape kits go unprocessed.

Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 18d

Tow any federal vehicles, fine them, and if the fine is not paid within a week release them to parts shops. Tow and fine for what? Not having a stamp showing they have paid the state a stamp tax allowing them to be present.

800XL@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 18d (1 reply)

No shit? Lose police funding? We'll finally get those safe cities Republicans always talk about providing when they're elected. It just comes from the exact opposite of what they do.

luciferofastora@feddit.org · 7 pts · 17d

Police defunding alone isn't gonna make cities safe. Where state capacity fades, people take advantage. Be ready to replace them with a new, more resilient system so that the power vacuum is filled not by some people but by the people.

joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 18d

The everyday use of threats to withhold justice and life saving things from people is not acceptable and should not be acceptable to anyone with half a mind in this country, the GOP needs to lose every single election they are up for for putting us through this absolute hell

Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 17d

So defund the police?

🤡🤡🤡🤡

kreskin@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 17d

We'll find a way to fund rape kits without them -- cops dont do a reliable job processing those anyway and the hospitals should do it. And reducing police funding is what we've wanted all along anyway. Lets do this.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 17d

The rape kits are needed, but getting rid of some cops might actually help the crime rate.

SlugsOnToast@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 17d

What a reprehensible form of extortion. Every single thing about this administration and its supporters is fucking GROSS.

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 18d

Republican Christians, the best devil worshippers ever.

untorquer@quokk.au · 9 pts · 18d

Waiting for the product of the manufacturing, "they chose to defund their police, it's a lawless city. We have to send in ICE for pubic safety and to uphold peace"

badmancrooks@piefed.social · 8 pts · 18d

They don't look at them anyway, go for it.

lemmylump@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d

They don't use them, ACAB and a shitton of them are rapist.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Did I miss something but aren't city/county police funded by local taxes, and statues are state-funded?

Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 17d

The article references a federal grant made to help support prosecution of rapists.

green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 17d

This DOJ is utter bullshit and must be held to account after this administration ends.

SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Good.

Fuck ICE and Fuck Cops (They were invented to hunt down escaped slaves.)

Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 17d

Yeah but what'll we do without the $5 cities will spend on actually testing rape kits?

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 18d (2 replies)

What does "don't allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforcement " even mean?

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 18d (1 reply)

Like going to the Automated Teller Machine machine

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d

Where you enter you Personal Identification Number number

trainsrkool@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 18d

ACAB

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 18d

A single sheriff with a deputy, like the old times, would be more effective than an army of trigger happy clowns.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 18d

Don't threaten me with a good time!

DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 18d

Forgive my ignorance… but how much does a box of sterile q-tips cost? This sounds like fear mongering at its finest 😌