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Non-profit foundations under the umbrella of billionaire globalist George Soros’ Open Society Foundations network donated over $35 million to anti-police groups in 2021, tax documents obtained by Fox News Digital show.
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Soros views overhauling the criminal justice system as a high priority and has bankrolled numerous groups and initiatives working on such efforts in recent years. He has also financially backed dozens of far-left prosecutor candidates as part of the efforts.
The financier’s nonprofits continued the push in 2021 by passing large sums to groups that back defunding police, hubs used by progressive activists aiming to dismantle law enforcement, and even funding databases to track donations to police department foundations and unions.
In a comment to Fox, an Open Society representative claimed funding groups aiming to overhaul the US judicial system is beneficial to the freedom of Americans, citing the death of George Floyd as a major catalyst.
“The Open Society Foundations is proud to have been one of the earliest and most robust supporters of efforts to address the issues of crime and public safety while protecting freedoms that Americans hold dear,” Laleh Ispahani, co-director of Open Society-U.S., told Fox News Digital. “We have supported reforms to our criminal justice system that enjoy broad support across the political spectrum. We believe that our freedoms are threatened when state actors are above the law, and that accountability is even more essential when they are given the right to use force on behalf of the government.”
“The level of police violence, particularly impacting communities of color, has spurred reform efforts across the country,” Ispahani continued. “Open Society supports the exploration and development of policies that actually work to reduce crime and defers to communities regarding what alternatives make sense to them. Whether that includes shifting funding currently allocated to policing into services that actually work to address crime and improve public safety is up to them.”
“Since the murder of George Floyd, many communities have increased spending on policing, while deaths at the hands of police has continued to rise to new heights,” Ispahani added. “We continue to believe that reforms are needed and that communities should continue to lead those efforts.”
One initiative that received $15 million was the Tides Advocacy for the Electoral Justice Project, spearheaded by The Movement for Black Lives, which oversees over 50 Black Lives Matter groups most of which advocate for defunding police.
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While few details are available online, the Movement for Black Lives said that the project would dole out $75,000 “to 12 Black-led ORGANIZATIONS that are expanding democracy and building political power in defense of Black lives” in a post on its website last year.
In addition to its anti-police work, the Movement for Black Lives has expressed support for cop killers. Last summer, the group called on supporters to sign a clemency petition that included Sundiata Acoli, who was convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a 1973 traffic stop.
Additionally, “The Foundation to Promote Open Society, another Soros nonprofit, sent $10 million to Borealis Philanthropy for its Black-led Movement Fund, which provides support to the Movement for Black Lives, according to its website.”
Another $10.75 million was given from the Foundation to Promote Open Society to the Borealis Philanthropy’s Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF), which according to Fox says it works to “identify, support, and nurture promising community-based police reform campaigns.”
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“The CTPF supports groups to build power, increase police accountability and transparency, end criminalization, and shift power and resources away from punitive, reactive, and carceral responses to preventative, transformative community-based safety strategies,” its website states. “The Fund values and resources work that addresses both the immediate harm caused by state violence and systemic changes necessary to create healthy, well-resourced communities, and transformative safety responses.”
The CTPF last year experienced its “biggest cycle of grantmaking yet” when it “committed and/or paid out” $5.2 million in grants to 55 organizations in 21 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, its website states. The CTPF added nearly $4 million in grants to 26 organizations in early 2022.
The Foundation to Promote Open Society also funneled $1.75 million to dark money hub New Venture Fund for the Community Resource Hub (CRH) for Safety and Accountability, which provides resources to progressive activists on police reform efforts and abolishing and defunding police.
The most recent CRH funding comes on the heels of the $4.5 million the nonprofit sent to the hub in 2019 and 2020. That money included half a million dollars that went towards creating the project.
While Soros’ first grant made its way to the hub the year before the defund movement gained steam following Floyd’s death, internet archives indicate CRH’s website went live around that time. A cached version of the site from late May 2020 shows it appears to have launched with around 400 resources on topics such as police accountability and alternatives to arrests.
A $500,000 donation was given to the failed Vote Yes 4 Minnesota campaign, which promoted efforts to “dismantle” the Minneapolis Police Department, and Open Society also targeted Austin, Texas, last year.
The Open Society Policy Center granted $500,000 to the Equity PAC to oppose the city “unnecessarily” increasing the “hiring of new police officers.” The Foundation to Promote Open Society sent $200,000 to the Austin Justice Coalition to “educate the public about policing, the influence of police unions, and ways to keep communities safe without relying on the police.”
Soros also poured money into anti-police groups in the Arizona area.
Soros also poured money into tracking police-related donations. The Foundation to Promote Open Society gave $200,000 to Poder in Action last year to support a project called The Prometheus Conspiracy. This money went towards creating a nationwide, searchable database of “charitable contributions to police department foundations and police unions or police associations,” the tax forms show.
Far from their purported goal to protect Americans’ freedoms, the funding of anti-police groups is actually putting American lives in danger, the executive director of Americans for Public Trust Caitlin Sutherland told Fox.
“Not only has billionaire George Soros spent millions propping up pro-crime prosecutors, but now we’ve learned he’s spent the last year bankrolling efforts to defund the police as well,” Sutherland summarized.
“It is extremely troubling that tens of millions in dark money is flooding our communities, all towards initiatives that will make us and our families less safe.”
Fox notes the funding to the groups revealed in the tax docs does not take into account money donated directly by Soros to progressive prosecutor and DA races, including Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Kim Foxx in Chicago, Kim Gardner in St. Louis, and George Gascón in Los Angeles.
“This past November, the four far-left district attorney candidates who appeared on ballots and received support from Soros swept their elections, Fox News Digital previously reported.”