Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey admitted that calls to “defund the police” played a role in the crime wave plaguing his city.

“It’s just the reality of the solution, you know,” the mayor admitted when pressed by community leaders on how the “defund the police” movement at least partially contributed to the city’s crime spike. “When you make big, overarching statements that we’re going to defund or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers, there’s an impact to that.”