Rich Lowry at the New York Post offers his take on cops and crime:
WANTED: Trained
security professionals to deal with elevated levels of crime and mayhem at
risk to their own life and limb, while getting called racist oppressors and
potentially thrown under the bus by elected officials.
This has become the de facto
employment notice for police around the country, and, unsurprisingly, cops and
potential cops don’t find it particularly enticing. Why would they?
America’s cities are feeling
the effects of a year’s long experiment in what would happen if political and
media elites celebrated a movement based on the idea that police are racist
goons, excused rioting and explaining away spiraling crime and made it clear
to cops that if they make a mistake, they will, at the very least, become
instantly infamous.
The experiment hasn’t gone
well.
Portland, Ore., has been a
veritable research lab for this experiment. The latest blow to the city is the
mass resignation of the Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team, which is
responsible for policing protests in the city — a challenging, endless and
literally thankless job.
Rioting has become part of the
fabric of urban life in Portland, where demonstrators have been doing battle
with cops nearly every other night since the death of George Floyd.
You can
read the rest of the column via the below link:
Just when we need public safety, Dem elites have alienated cops (nypost.com)
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