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“Los Angeles Starts to Defund Its Police.”
Hillary Clinton’s former national press secretary, Brian Fallon, called “for police departments to be defunded across the country,” reports The Hill. Meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles, which recently witnessed violence and looting, is planning to partly defund its police department. The staunchly progressive city plans to cut its police department budget by $150 million. As Adam Ford notes:
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced an enormous transfer of city funds at a press briefing Wednesday, with $100 million to $150 million being stripped from the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget and reallocated to “black communities and communities of color.” … “It is time to move our rhetoric towards action to end racism in our city,” the mayor said.
L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez on Wednesday then officially introduced the motion, tweeting that it was “to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism. This is just one small step.
The motion begins by condemning U.S. society as inherently racist, saying:
“American society is founded on a racial hierarchy, one that is born out of slavery, followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor. As such, police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality. … [W]e can begin by slowly dismantle [sic] those systems that are designed to harm people of color.”
‘Defund the Police’ Would be a Catastrophe for Black People Especially.
It wasn’t enough to throw Molotov cocktails into squad cars or hurl recently-bought, pristine bricks at the backs of cops’ heads or through the windows of their precincts.
Now we must “Defund the Police” as well.
That along with a new call-and-response-on-your-knees demonstration of white fealty to blacks (cf. Bethesda, Md. and West Hollywood, Calif.) are the most recent tropes in our ongoing, Robespierre-like societal suicide.
I wonder how real-life African-Americans feel about that latter unbelievably bizarre cultish display of Caucasian virtue signaling gone berserk?
The truth is that nearly everything that is declared as righteous or politically correct by our liberal/progressive elites (for ten minutes, anyway) and then trumpeted as such by the media is the reverse. It is usually a horrendous idea.
Nothing is more so than “Defund the Police.”
Well, not completely. It’s a perfectly good idea for Hollywood celebrities (many of whom back it in a big way) and high-level corporate execs who almost always have their own well-trained 24-hour personal security forces armed with the latest high-tech gizmos that would be the envy of El Chapo.
What do they care about those working-class non-entities aka the police? They’re for the hoi polloi, the ignorant masses..
Of course, those same hoi polloi are you and me and, especially, the disadvantaged communities where the vast amount of crime occurs.
What happens when a single mother’s four-year-old in Compton gets wounded in a crossfire between gangs? Who does she call to get help that it won’t happen again? LeBron James’ chief of security?
There are dozens of possible examples. I could go on, but the point is too obvious—defunding the police hugely harms the very people it’s supposed to help.
So why is it proposed? The only conclusion I can think of is that it’s part of a propaganda campaign whose goal is not just putting Donald Trump out of office, but ultimately overthrowing the state.
This would be achieved via the media and elites—whether they realize it or not, but inspired by their own Trump hatred—making inadvertent common cause with Antifa, the recently surfaced Boogaloo (whoever they are), and a whole host of socialist, communist, anarchist and other radical actors working together or separately.
The irony is that—were they to succeed—another form of police would take over that would make the current version seem like the mildest of social workers out of an afternoon Hallmark special. NKVD, anyone?
Was any of this, will any of this, be to the betterment of the actual lives of African-Americans? Don’t be ridiculous. They are beside the point. They are a prop.
Indeed, looked at from any angle, thanks to the intersection of COVID and the murder of George Floyd, a massive cloud has fallen over America—and it isn’t from tear gas or smoke bombs.
Emotions rule over intellect as never in our lifetimes. Race is being exploited as never before. In the old days it really was a problem. Now it is, largely, an illusion exploited for reasons of power and control. Racism must be fanned, even where it doesn’t exist, especially when it doesn’t exist, in order to take that control.
But this is about murder, and murder is the most dastardly of acts. We don’t even need the Ten Commandments to tell us that.
Nevertheless, why exactly did this white cop kill this black man? We don’t really know. Was it because of race? It’s a good possibility, but there are several other conceivable motivations. Apparently they knew each other. We may never know the truth in the current hysteria.
But even if we assume—as the media and our liberal friends do—that it has to be race, such a murder by a cop is an extremely rare occurrence, and one that has become increasingly rare over the years. You wouldn’t know that watching CNN, or almost anyone else for that matter.
We are in the middle of racist epidemic, they tell us. And it is your fault. I bet you didn’t know that. How ignorant you are.
Now repeat after me….
Defunding a police department is a strange thing for a city to do right after it suffered vandalism and looting.
It will also harm minorities. Wealthy white people may be able to afford private security guards, but poor minority people cannot. They have to rely on the police for protection. That is why most people of all races oppose defunding the police in public opinion polls, even as Black Lives Matter activists have called for defunding the police. “Only 16% of Americans favor cutting funding for police departments,” notes the Cato Institute. A Yahoo/Yougov survey found that only 12% of whites, 33% of blacks, and 17% of Hispanics favor cutting funding for police departments.
It is disproportionately minorities who are victimized by violent crime, which is often black-on-black. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports show that 45% of murder victims and 47% of murderers in 2018 were African-American, even though blacks make up only 13% of the U.S. population (less than half of murder victims and murderers are white).
Cutting police funding will leave the police without the manpower needed to investigate and arrest many criminals. When that happens, it is disproportionately minorities themselves who will suffer. It is often harder and more time-consuming to track down and arrest murderers in poor minority neighborhoods, where witnesses may fear retaliation or being viewed as “snitches.”
Police clearance rates are already disturbingly low for murders committed against blacks — especially in progressive cities like Chicago that have under-manned police departments.