De-funding the Police: The Democrats’ Race to “Out-Stupid” One Another
Just when we had come to the conclusion that Democrats, only recently having nominated Joe Biden (D-DE) to oppose President Donald Trump in this fall’s election, had hit “bottom” on the intelligence scale, we now see a serious movement afoot by Democrat mayors and Democrat city councils to de-fund their cities’ police departments.
Across the country, many of the nation’s largest cities have seriously taken up initiatives to de-fund, if not deconstruct and outright dismantle, police departments at the very time these same cities have witnessed rioting, wholesale looting as well as destruction of private and municipal property, in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland OR, Seattle, just to name a few, including an almost-contiguous string of northeastern coastal cities- Richmond, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and Hartford, CT are all seriously looking to implement drastic reductions in funding for their police departments. Some even seek to replace their cities’ trained police professionals with “community policing,” which seeks “restorative justice” in lieu of criminal justice.
Here’s the difference:
A man breaks into your home with an attempt to steal your valuables…
- In criminal justice, an arrest is made by local law enforcement, and the perpetrator is taken into custody. He is arraigned and a trial to determine his guilt or innocence, based on evidence found at the crime scene, takes place. If found guilty, sentence is then rendered at a sentencing hearing. It’s called due process.
- In restorative justice, no arrest is made, no one is taken into custody, no arraignment takes place, no trial is docketed, and no criminal sentence is rendered. Instead, a mediating session takes place between the man who broke into your house and yourself, overseen by a social justice “worker,” to arrive upon some kind of agreed-upon compromise which recognizes your own “privilege” vis-à-vis the societal justification for his breaking into your home. It’s called “community policing.”
So, this is the altar upon which the Democrat party seeks to slay itself, for all time?
Despite Joe Biden’s and Nancy Pelosi’s claims to the contrary, that they are not for de-funding police departments, rest assured they will stand solidly behind these efforts- just as soon as the message of their party’s left fringes makes its way to their old, tried and tired ears, that this is where their party’s voters demand they go.
It is as if the Democrats are in a race to “out-stupid” one another.
All of the talk about “suburban soccer moms” opposing President Trump’s re-election, because he tweets and “he is mean,” will go out the window once their homes are broken into and their cars vandalized. There is nothing that these women fear more- not even four-and-a-half more years of Trump– than the idea that their children, their homes and their own safety would be placed in harm’s way, without a police department to protect and serve their communities.
It’s not enough that Democrats oppose the wall on our nation’s southern border. It’s not enough that Democrats want instead to facilitate an open border, with unlimited and unrestricted immigration. It’s not enough that Democrats want to instantly confer citizenship on everyone who has entered this country illegally. It’s not enough that Democrats want to completely dismantle CPB- Customs and Border Protection and ICE- Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
…now, they want to de-fund and/or bring an end to local law enforcement…
…and we are supposed to believe that the majority of people in this country would support all of these ends, and thereby elect Joe Biden as the nation’s forty-sixth President?
“C’mon, man…”
-Drew Nickell, 10 June 2020
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