9/21/2023 0 Comments Do we want dead copsAnd small businesses, realizing the cops may not be there, will sell and move out.Īccording to former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, not only did New York law enforcement officers suffer many injuries in the riots, hundreds of cops, seeing how they are regarded and were treated by many whom they protect, are preparing to leave the NYPD.Īs the Democrats’ “police reform” bill is debated on the Hill, Republicans will largely stand with the police and Attorney General William Barr, who said Sunday that while there is racism in America, there is no “systemic racism” in the nation’s police departments. The urban poor who look to the police as their only protection will stay inside and lock their doors. Criminals will see an opening to seize opportunities. Cops will back off from confronting the lawless and violent. To pander to the militants on the left, liberal politicians will devise new restrictions on cops and more severe punishments for infractions, treating the police as potential threats to civil and constitutional rights. What will happen now is predictable, as it has happened before. Indeed, after two weeks of seeing police decried on nightly TV as racist oppressors of African Americans, cops must realize that they are reviled and detested by some of the countrymen they have sworn to protect. Funerals of the cop heroes were televised. Two decades ago, the NYPD were celebrated “first responders” who ran toward the collapsing twin towers, many never to come back. While the criminal elements burned cop cars and showered police with bottles, rocks and bricks, even “peaceful protesters” were calling the police fascists and racists. In two weeks, there has been a sea change in attitudes toward police, with not a few coming to share the hard left’s hatred. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will be transferring $1 billion: “We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced that he will reallocate up to $150 million from the LAPD budget to social programs. The idea of defunding police departments has caught fire, and liberal politicians are scrambling to get in front of their radical constituents. Asked if he would support the council decision, Mayor Jacob Frey hedged, “I do not support the full abolition of the police.”Īs the crowd jeered and booed, the mayor walked away alone. On Sunday, nine members of the city council, a veto-proof majority, voted to disband the Minneapolis police department.
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