LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The president of a Little Rock police union told Fox News the mayor's resolution to declare crime a public health emergency was a political move.
The Little Rock Board of Directors approved Mayor Frank Scott Jr.’s resolution 9-1 on Feb. 1 – the same day Scott announced his reelection bid.
"I don’t think the mayor and the police chief give a damn about the police officers," Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police Zach Farley told Fox News. "Our job is to enforce the law, but we’ve been hamstrung so hard that we really can’t."
Farley said his chapter for the Fraternal Order of Police represents about 95% of Little Rock officers.
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Scott told Fox News that crime has increased since 2020.
Homicides have jumped 42% this year, and all violent crime has risen 35%, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Property crimes increased by 10% last year, according to the Little Rock Police Department.
"There’s parts of town where it’s just not safe to be out at night," one resident told Fox News.
Farley said the rising crime started after police officers were "villainized" following the Summer 2020 riots and protests.
"It has a lot to do with weak leadership, whether its upper level leadership in law enforcement agencies or the local politics and mayors and county judges or even some governors," he told Fox News. "Over the last couple of years, it's almost like there's no enforcement of the laws, especially the lower level stuff."
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