In what just might be the most misguided attempt at ‘utopian’ living ever conceived, progressive Democrats continue to demand the defunding and disbanding of police forces in cities around the country. Yet, like a doctor that has made the wrong diagnosis on a patient, such a radical idea will not bring peace and security to America’s ailing neighborhoods. In fact, it will make them virtually unlivable.
The United States desperately needs a national debate on the root causes of police violence, which the political left has prematurely and wrongly attributed to “systemic racism.” Missing from the bigger picture are questions pertaining to economic hardship, broken homes, drug abuse and street gangs – and perhaps most importantly of all, poorly trained police – as just a few of the contributing factors that have placed law enforcement between a rock and a hard place.
Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:42 UTC
In what just might be the most misguided attempt at utopian living ever conceived, progressive Democrats continue to demand the defunding and disbanding of police forces in cities around the country. Yet, like a doctor that has made the wrong diagnosis on a patient, such a radical idea will not bring peace and security to America s ailing neighborhoods. In fact, it will make them virtually unlivable.
The United States desperately needs a national debate on the root causes of police violence, which the political left has prematurely and wrongly attributed to systemic racism.
Missing from the bigger picture are questions pertaining to economic hardship, broken homes, drug abuse and street gangs - and perhaps most importantly of all, poorly trained police - as just a few of the contributing factors that have placed law enforcement between a rock and a hard place.
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In the nearly two weeks since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a concerted effort among conservative voices is building a misleading counter-narrative to the public protests about racial bias by police: that whites are more likely to be killed by police than people of color.
An article this week on Fox News from the National Review (a conservative magazine) and an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal (owned by Fox News parent company News Corp) both argued that no police bias exists against black Americans.
The Wall Street Journal article titled “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism” concluded that “