Defunding the police has caused a 94 percent increase in homicide in Los Angeles County and brought serious safety concerns to the public, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff. He is calling on residents to hold the elected officials accountable and end this woke ideology. “Defunding has consequences,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva told EpochTV’s “California Insider” program in an interview broadcast on Feb. 8. He said the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is now the only government entity in the nation to double down on defunding the police. Other municipalities, such as New York City, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin, all turned around after seeing spikes in crime and started pleading with those who left to come back. “They defunded 145 million in my first fiscal year in office, and I started with a $101 million deficit. They took another $116 million away in the second fiscal year. …