In some states, breaking the law is still illegal

If you think it might be demoralizing to be a police officer in a city where the district attorney doesn’t prosecute criminals and the mayor cuts your department’s budget to give welfare to illegal immigrants, you’re right … and the sheriff of Laramie County, Wyoming, is looking to capitalize.

Elected on a campaign promise to “address disproportionate incarceration of people of color” in 2016, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has since established herself as one of the softest-on-crime district attorneys in the country. 

Violent crime was already rising when McCann took office, but it has only gotten worse since she made equity, not security, the top priority of her office. According to FBI data, no city larger than 500,000 people has seen a faster rise in violent crime over the last decade than Denver. 

Adding insult to injury, as President Joe Biden has flooded the nation with illegal immigrants through his catch-and-release border policies, Denver has been forced to make $41 million in cuts to provide the housing, food, healthcare, and education these immigrants need. Those $41 million in cuts include an $8.4 million cut to the police department.

Enter Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak, who spent $2,500 on a billboard in downtown Denver reading “Work in Wyoming where breaking the law is still illegal and cops are funded.”

“One of the things is you get to do your job here. So, you get to enforce the laws here,” Kozak told Fox 31 in Denver. “We try to look where officers are not happy with the political environment, and we try to promote our culture here in Wyoming where it’s more of a conservative area. Like I said, the community supports law enforcement.”

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Denver Mayor Mike Johnson can’t deny that Biden’s migrant crisis has forced him to cut police funding, but he strongly objected to Kozak’s billboard. “To say that Denver is ‘defunding the police’ is a willful mischaracterization of the budget reductions,” his office told Fox 31.

For his part, Kozak says the billboard is working. Despite lower pay, Kozak says they have already received 40 new applications from Denver law enforcement in response to the ad.