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Where’s the GOP Law-and-Order Candidate?
Where’s the GOP law-and-order candidate?
Is there a GOP law-and-order candidate? Murders in Atlanta are up 32% since mid-May. Murders in Chicago are up 17%, and shootings 24%. In St. Louis, in the aftermath of Ferguson, shootings are up 39%, robberies 43%, and murders 25%. In Baltimore, scene of the worst urban riots in two generations, law and order is in extended meltdown, with 32 shootings over the Memorial Day weekend alone. As Heather Mac Donald’s disturbing column in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal makes clear:
The most plausible explanation of the current surge in lawlessness is the intense agitation against American police departments over the past nine months. Since last summer, the airwaves have been dominated by suggestions that the police are the biggest threat facing young black males today. A handful of highly publicized deaths of unarmed black men, often following a resisted arrest—including Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., in July 2014, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 and Freddie Gray in Baltimore last month—have led to riots, violent protests and attacks on the police. Murders of officers jumped 89% in 2014, to 51 from 27.
Left-wing politicians have been waging a war on cops that’s left civil society imploding in many major cities.
America is now waiting for the one member of the burgeoning field of Republican presidential candidates who will speak up for our embattled men and women in blue—and for the fundamental principles of law and order.
The president, the past and present attorneys general, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been accusing the criminal justice system of systematic racism and blaming cops — not the rioters or shooters — for the growing violence. In effect, they’re putting a bullseye around our law enforcement officers’ necks.
In short, Democrat politicians aren’t just foes of the “broken windows” approach to law enforcement; they’re now cheering on those breaking the windows.
This is a case crying out for a Republican counterattack. It’s time for one of those White House aspirants to take the fight to the enemy, namely progressive liberalism’s perverted social vision in which it’s the police who are the problem, and even violent felons are merely victims of an “unfair” socio-economic order.
So where is the candidate who is going to speak to police associations to tell them they are our nation’s heroes, not our disgrace?
Where’s the candidate doing a press conference with Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee to point out that homicides in that city are up 180% from last year and that the real victims of the collapse of law and order are the poor and the working class?
Where’s the candidate standing with Rudy Giuliani and former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to blast Bill de Blasio’s abandonment of “stop and frisk” and the state attorney general’s plan to appoint a state prosecutor whose only job will be to prosecute cops who dare to use deadly force against perpetrators?
Where’s the candidate taking it to Hillary for endorsing the Al Sharpton line that the police act out of racial bias, not out of a desire to protect life and property? Who’s going to call her to account for fomenting racial tension in hopes of getting votes?
Where’s the candidate who’s going to inner cities and barrios to talk to ordinary people for whom the drunks, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, and muggers that liberals embrace actually pose an existential threat? Where’s the candidate that knows that an effective police force is the thin blue line standing between civilization and chaos—and between life and death?
For any Republican candidate looking for an issue that will appeal to black and Hispanic working families, this is it. Being the candidate advocating for law and order is an electoral strategy that works. It’s also the right thing to do.
So, where’s the GOP law-and-order candidate for 2016?
Published in Policing
People wonder why I’m so cranky. At least here at Ricochet, there’s a possibility that polite discourse will not get you killed. In today’s politics, outside the beltway, this is not so. To be called a terrorist by a governing majority is a bad situation. We are losing our liberties.
Arthur Herman:
Your Law & Order Huckleberry.
You are not excused. What is most disgraceful are your words, which apparently fly under the Ricochet radar of “dinner conversation” but would get you tossed out of my house were you to say this at my table. So lets have at it, shall we?
You are using the language of Stalin. You are saying that dissent, even questioning the government, is tantamount to being a terrorist.
Since Tim Mc Viegh is not anyone who has published works, not even a manifesto as the unabomber had, he is only known for his despicable actions. We only know he was radically anti-government and willing to kill innocent people, even children. There are even questions about his true motives and possible connections to radical Islamists. It’s not wholly out of bounds when we look at how the Clinton administration politicized this against Republicans that the narrative could have been tweaked by the Feds.
Likewise, Stalin wasn’t known for his philosophy or language, he was known for his paranoia and his ruthless actions against anyone he thought would be a threat to his power. He is known for making false charges against people he thought might ultimately turn their questions into dissent and their dissent into action.
You are commenting in a paranoid fashion, very similar to how Stalin thought.
Comrade Franco, you have been denounced! Unfortunately, our dedicated federal mashchinery is overloaded dealing with the massive number of denunciations. Please report to the following ObamaCare auxiliaryportal to schedule your own re-education.
https://my.barackobama.com/page/signup/o2012-attackwatch-report-an-attack
You are instructed to report yourself, and provide details of your denunciation. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest.
link:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-nationwide-crime-wave-1432938425
This is as childish as those who think they are serfs of the state in the United States of America. I got better things to do than play. Buzz off.
No one said that Manny. Making things up is what children do, and liars. You have already been proven factually wrong. I’m here.