Which brings up the other problem: America’s growing refusal to protect its citizens from violence. In its cities, that’s what the bail-reform/defund-the-police movement is all about — shielding criminals from the consequences of their actions. But there also is the matter of violently expressed mental illness and its corollary, the clearly disturbed and deteriorating individual … Read more
Americans have been buying a lot of guns. The figure is in the tens of millions. It might be time to get one of the gas pump stickers of President Joe Biden saying, “I did that.” After all, it is his failing policies that are driving many to take up lawful gun ownership. The Biden … Read more
A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed by Philadelphia police nearly two weeks ago. Did this make your nightly news? Did basketball teams boycott their games? Was there performative outrage across the country accompanied by violent riots? Local reports explain Thomas Siderio Jr. was fleeing police when he was shot in the back. It is undetermined whether Siderio was armed. Siderio … Read more
A new study on 2021 homicide trends released by the Council on Criminal Justice found an additional 5 percent rise in homicides (on the heels of a 30 percent increase in 2020) in 22 major American cities. Los Angeles, Louisville, and Washington, D.C., among others, saw homicides increase by more than 10 percent. Activists, leading media, and … Read more
When “people do not feel protected by the police,” [Philadelphia DA Larry] Krasner notes, they may “view the risk of being caught by police with an illegal gun as outweighed by the risk of being caught on the street without one.” Before he was elected, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg expressed a similar concern. … Read more
Stacey Abrams sees herself as a big target for those who don’t like her. But at the same time she busied herself advocating for “defund the police” causes, she was spending over $1.2 million on private security for her own protection. In other words, she believes in hiring armed good guys to ensure her own … Read more
The budget drafted by Lightfoot and approved by the City Council contains $411.6 million to implement “Our City, Our Safety.” $85 million on violence intervention, including victim services, street outreach and other violence reduction programs. $62 million for affordable housing and homeless programs. $80 million for assistance to families and youth jobs. $40 million … Read more
By Janie Har, AP The Oakland City Council, a longtime leader in the Black Lives Matter movement to cut police funding, reversed course Tuesday and voted to hire more officers as it grapples with a surge in homicides and gun violence. The proposal by Mayor Libby Schaaf to add two new police academies and unfreeze … Read more
Raise your hand if you saw this coming…over a year ago. After the George Floyd killing, blue cities controlled by far left city councils and spineless mayors jumped on the newly fashionable “reimagine policing” bandwagon and cut their police departments’ budgets. Sometimes drastically. The airy-fairy new approach to maintaining law and order floated at the … Read more
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