A former police chief named Maurice Richards writes,
The leftist elites’ pro-criminal, anti-victim, and anti-police policies have
undermined the rule of law and unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence and
murder. In addition to shootings and homicides, organized robberies and
lootings of large stores have spread from San Francisco and Los Angeles to
Minneapolis and Chicago and even into the suburbs. All are jurisdictions
dominated by Democrats, controlled by radical leftist prosecutors, and
patrolled by police departments that have virtually abandoned proactive law
enforcement.
In cities where Democrats hold sway, the Left has already inflicted
devastating, long-term damage.
They have done this in three ways.
First, Democrats, working with Black Lives Matter and the corporate left-wing
media, have undermined community trust in the police by perpetuating the big
lie of “systemic police racism.” Delegitimizing the police has made it almost
impossible to build community partnerships.
Demonizing the police as racist oppressors and murderers also stirs up hate,
putting a target on the back of every cop in America. In 2021, 73 police
officers were “feloniously killed,” 346 were shot, and ambush shootings of
police increased by 115 percent—the deadliest year on record. This was a
deeply disturbing increase from 2020, with 311 officers shot and 47 killed by
gunfire.
The first three months of 2022 have been even more horrific. Seventeen police
officers have been killed by gunfire and 101 have been shot, a 46 percent
increase from 2021. Shockingly, ambush-style attacks are up 36 percent from
last year’s historic 115 percent increase from 2020.
Second, police morale has been crushed. Thousands of veteran officers have
retired early or quit, and recruiting enough new officers has proven
impossible. Lacking support from political leaders and community members,
officers have pulled back from proactive policing.
How dysfunctional is the Portland Police Bureau? In October, a mob of 100
Antifa thugs laid waste to downtown Portland, causing $500,000 in damage to
banks, stores, and shops. Eerily similar to the mayor of Baltimore’s orders to
her police department to give the mob “space to destroy” during the riots of
2015, Portland’s woke police leadership directed officers to be spectators.
Not one rioter was arrested. The Portland Police Bureau is broken. Leftist
Democrats are working to do the same across the country.
Third, the infestation of George Soros-funded state’s attorneys in big-city
jurisdictions has sabotaged crime-fighting and justice. Well financed by the
anti-American, globalist billionaire, these rogue prosecutors in jurisdictions
such as Los Angeles County, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Cook County,
Illinois, “reimagine” the criminal justice system by dropping thousands of
felony cases, failing to charge violent criminals, refusing to prosecute many
categories of crime, and letting dangerous offenders out of jail.
The Soros plan is extremely effective in dismantling the rule of law.
Hard-left prosecutors simply nullify the hard work of police officers who
arrest dangerous criminals by refusing to indict them and putting them back on
the street. As I have observed elsewhere, the objective of the Left is not to
reform policing—but to destroy it.
The key Marxist theoreticians were Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist, and
a group of German Marxist intellectuals who became known as the Frankfurt
School. They concluded that a socialist overthrow of the capitalist
democracies could not happen while the working class still believed in the
legitimacy of their society and supported its traditional values. Because the
primary social institutions—education, media, law, family, and religion—taught
and reinforced these values, such institutions would have to be captured or
destroyed before political overthrow was possible. This new take on the theory
of communist revolution became known as “Cultural Marxism.”
Communists seek to exploit a society’s most vulnerable weaknesses. They
identified the fault line in the United States as race and, almost a century
ago, made fomenting conflict between blacks and whites their primary strategy.
Traditional Marxist theory was revised, replacing its original class-based
framework of capitalist/exploiter versus worker/exploited with a race-based
framework of white-oppressor versus black victim. The New York Times’ “1619
Project” is just the latest manifestation of this schema. Critical race
ideology identifies blacks as perpetual victims of white supremacy who lack
the agency to change their status and cannot be held personally accountable
for their behavior. Celebration of imaginary victimhood and evasion of
responsibility perpetuate social pathology by preventing the correction of the
actual root causes of crime and disparities, including fatherless families and
dysfunctional cultural values.
The traditional nuclear family has been decimated. Forty percent of all
children are now born into families without a father in the home, including 70
percent of blacks, 52 percent of Hispanics, and 28 percent of whites.
Children’s innocence is being corrupted through perverse sexualization in
school curricula, the Internet, and popular culture. Hollywood and mass
entertainment are almost exclusively leftist. Even professional sports are
under leftist control.
Not only did Barack Obama do more to divide Americans by race than any
president in our lifetimes, he was also the most anti-police president in
history.
Obama’s self-righteous anti-police rhetoric and bogus claims of systemic
racism fueled hatred of the police and prepared the groundwork for the war on
cops. He legitimized Black Lives Matter in the public consciousness—excusing
their mob violence and inviting BLM leaders to the White House, even though
they had regularly chanted for the murders of police officers. Race-based
demonization and anti-police propaganda has only accelerated with Joe Biden in
office, even as Biden has made a show of walking back the “defund the police”
rhetoric.
They prevent an honest evaluation and response to black crime. Critical race
theory falsely maintains that racial disparity is proof of racism. But arrests
are the result of criminal behavior—not race. Blacks commit 52 percent of all
homicides in the United States while constituting only 13 percent of the
population. When crime is committed disproportionately, arrests will also be
disproportionate.
We already have a pretty good idea of what the elites will do if they can
convert 700,000 sworn police officers and sheriff’s deputies into a de facto
or bona fide federal police force. The partisan manner in which the Justice
Department has responded to the January 6 protest compared to six months of
infinitely more destructive 2020 riots says it all.
A leftist takeover of local law enforcement would nationalize the kind of
depraved political partisanship we have witnessed with the Justice
Department’s decision to ignore the sadistic beatings of peaceful political
protesters on January 6 by D.C. Metro Police and the whitewash of the
unjustified ambush shooting and killing of Ashli Babbitt. Federal police would
be used as political, speech, and thought police—just as a corrupt FBI is
being misused to crack down on American parents for protesting the teaching of
racism, pornography, and pedophilia to their children.
Admittedly, some of this will be difficult to accomplish in cities dominated
by Democrats. But we have no choice but to fight. Nothing is impossible. How
many people would have thought a year ago that critical race theory and its
offshoot curricula would be banned in school districts throughout the
country—including in deep blue states?
Read more here: https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/30/a-cops-eye-view-of-the-federal-takeover-of-the-police/
No comments:
Post a Comment