Since May Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists have demanded elected officials “Defund the Police.” Many Democratic-controlled cities followed through with these leftist demands. Today they are experiencing a surge in violent crimes.
Many of us figured that the “Defund the Police” swooping fainting spell on the Left for “social justice” would collapse in on itself. All the rage against the rage.
Is support for defunding police helpful to our situation? The “Unity Task Force” produced policy document calls for banning “racial profiling” in criminal apprehensions. The authors know big city police departments are predominantly made up of minorities. But these, racial profiling etc…, are all concepts and code words. This is the language of the Left/BLM/Islamist … Read more
Add this new act to the list of stupid Democrat tricks. Portland, the city that can’t sleep because of the rioting, got #woke, and now they’ll go broke. Defunding the police has cost them 7 million more year-over-year, a 200% increase in law enforcement spending.
What replaces police as the defund the police movement defines its goal. It believes police officers are the agents of violence in the community. Their solution is to eliminate police. It never stops to ask why institute policing in the first place? It also assumes there are no anti-social people. The defunders are very unclear … Read more
Heather MacDonald is the author of The War on Cops. She strips away the usual emotionalism from the issue turning to the statistics about the players and the situations she brings clarity to an emotional issue. The numbers are shocking.
Several police associations in major cities have gotten together to form The Protect and Serve PAC, based in Fort Worth Texas. It will be looking to get involved in contests where they can move the needle away from candidates running to defund the police.
Democrats say you don’t need a gun to protect yourself; the police will do that. They then say you don’t need police; unarmed social workers will do that. They say teachers don’t need to be armed, we have School Resources officers (SROs) for that, and now they are saying we have to get rid of … Read more
Joey ‘Fingers’ Biden is a career corruptocrat who exposes his nude body to women against their will, touches girls, sniffs children, (there’s that rape thing), defrauds taxpayers, and the media covers for him. Their latest mission: Joe Biden does not want to defund the police.
One of the BLM’s ‘White Allies’ (from Jackson, NH), just got himself arrested. For what, you wonder – though not much because you can read the headline. Six counts for possession of child sexual abuse images. You have to wonder, is this why Chris DeVries wanted the police defunded?
Who do these Union Teachers in LA think they are? The Medical industry, which feels like it can tell people when to stay home and when they go out? I’m sorry, like that old commercial, this isn’t how it works.
Remember that time, at Virtue-Signalling Camp, when a bunch of #woke Minneapolis city councilors leaped at the chance to appease systemic Marxism? Defund the police, they said. Yes, said the city council. But then it turned out that the actual black leaders in the city opposed that idea. Say what?
It’s really hard to understand how we got to where we are today. The video of George Floyd’s death was deeply disturbing, but there has to be something else at work to bring about the widespread rioting, the wanton destruction of our national monuments, the vitriol directed at law enforcement officers, and the insane demands … Read more
Suddenly there is growing support for the idea that Americans ought to reclaim responsibility for protecting themselves and their property. This would be an important step towards becoming fit for liberty once again.
Coming soon to a Democrat city near you. More crime in the Black Community! At least that seems to be the trend when activists make a scene, and law enforcement “pulls back” as a result. Minneapolis, the epicenter of the recent protests, has decided to go one better. They plan to disband the police, so … Read more
One of the key reasons American liberty stands today is because our founders designed a unique system of local control of law enforcement; where the loyalties of family and friends are a precious guardian of liberty. Being blessed to see 87 years gives perspective on how things have changed. One such perspective is the gradual … Read more
The Democratic bizzaro world is full of contradictions because it is the natural state. To them, it makes sense when we get results exactly opposite of those advertised. Law and order mean chaos. Prosperity means poverty; transparency means obstruction; unity means division; education creates ignorance; and equity means inequality.
A recent survey shows police departments hired more new officers in 2023 than in the previous four years. This news is particularly encouraging for major cities suffering upheaval and increased crime. Americans are concerned about upholding law and order, an issue that will doubtlessly feature prominently in the 2024 elections.
Irony alert. A candidate for elected office had their press conference delayed so the police could arrive and then remove a credentialed reporter who would ask questions about her party’s plans to defund … the police.
California has nothing better to do, so a pair of elected officials have introduced a bill that “would end the use of K-9 units for arrest, apprehension, and crowd control.”