After waves of racially charged protests and riots (2020), Democrats across the country issued calls to “defund the police.” They had political positions in many cities, allowing them control of budgets.
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In several cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, and Washington, D.C., among others (many others) Democrat “leaders” caved to demands from leftist activists. They cut police funding in their jurisdictions. The predictable happened.
Crime rose to out-of-control levels in these Democratic-run cities. Things have gotten so bad that Democratic leaders want to “send in the troops” to assist their overstretched, demoralized police forces.
Crime has continued to rise to the point of being out of control in many jurisdictions. These Democrat-operated cities are becoming unsafe. Things are so bad as a result of the action of Democratic “leaders” that those currently in charge want “troops” sent to their jurisdictions. They expect the rest of us who do not live there to pay for sending in troops to assist their overstretched, demoralized police forces.
They created the problem and they want us to solve it for them.
In the nation’s capital, Council member White called on the National Guard to stop the surging violence. He says the Southeast neighborhood he represents has become a “war zone” plagued by frequent gunfire and rising homicides.
In Chicago, crime is up 36% compared with last year; Illinois state representative Ford says sending in the National Guard “should not be off the table.” And in California, Gov. Newsom deployed the National Guard to San Francisco in April to help address fentanyl trafficking in the city, which has become a haven for criminals.
Nationwide, Democrats are bad at stopping crime.
They are good at calling for prepositioning federal troops throughout the country, so is crime the excuse?
Do we want direct federal control of our cities with armed troops? What is the posse comitatus act?
The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 143-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty.
Sure, Democrats’ first emotion is to empathize with the victims, but they have carried their caring for the victim to the extreme. They are caring for the anti-social individuals in their jurisdictions to the detriment of the law-abiding citizens.
The result is most people who vote for Democrats do not feel safe in their own neighborhoods. Yet, those people could vote for different leadership… When will they?
Democrats are beginning to admit crime is a legitimate problem, but the question is, will they admit they enable the people who commit the crime they admit is a problem?
They are still denouncing their critics as racist, while some insist everything is fine. On its face, this suggests the situation on the ground is bad. It also suggests the situation will deteriorate more because there must be sufficient fear, pain, and death to motivate change.
We know antagonizing police officers, cutting their funding, reducing their numbers, attacking them personally, and tying their hands is an ineffective way to stop crime. But we do not need troops in our cities. We need good citizens to take back political control in their jurisdiction.
We need common sense to return to a society with law and order.
This is hard work that needs to be done locally. It costs society less, and those costs must be borne by those getting the improvements in their living conditions. The community will not improve unless and until it is willing to do the work to make it happen.
Just think about it.
