Fund The Police Quick; Biden Cries Uncle!
Biden admits, without explicitly saying it, that the Democratic lunacy about defunding the police has cost many lives and is now biting Democratic politicians in their behinds. 1/2
Biden admits, without explicitly saying it, that the Democratic lunacy about defunding the police has cost many lives and is now biting Democratic politicians in their behinds. 1/2
Funding The Police Is Not Enough
WSJ: Of course what’s needed is not just funding, but also political leadership that opposes lawlessness and does not seek to use the actions of a particular officer as a pretext to attack cops in general and advance ideological agendas. 2/2
WSJ: Of course what’s needed is not just funding, but also political leadership that opposes lawlessness and does not seek to use the actions of a particular officer as a pretext to attack cops in general and advance ideological agendas. 2/2
Axios: Democrats, in private and public, are warning that rising crime — and the old and new progressive calls to defund the police — represent the single biggest threat to Democrats' electoral chances in 2022.
Democrats say it's no coincidence that Eric Adams, the leader in the New York City mayoral race, ran against defunding the police. Adams is a retired NYPD captain with a 22-year law-enforcement career.
Homicide rates in large cities — many of them run by Democrats — were "up more than 30 percent on average last year, and up another 24 percent for the beginning of this year," foreshadowing a violent summer, the N.Y. Times reported June 1.
NYT's Tom Friedman, one of Biden's favorite columnists, writes today under the headline "Want to Get Trump Re-elected? Dismantle the Police".
NYT's Tom Friedman: "As for policing, this issue could really sink Democrats. For example, big swaths of my old hometown, Minneapolis, have been turned into a dangerous and dystopian ghost city, wracked by gun violence, since the police murder of George Floyd."
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