Philly Cops Rejoice Over Trump Election

 Broad and Liberty ran my piece on Philly cops rejoicing over Trump's win.

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 Paul Davis: Philly cops rejoice over Trump's election

I recall being out on a ride-along with a Philadelphia police officer some years ago. 

While patrolling the streets of South Philly, the officer received a call about an altercation at a fast-food restaurant. Two large women were cursing and shoving each other over the actions of their young children. 

Five additional patrol officers responded, and the six cops separated the two angry women and deescalated the volatile situation. Once the women calmed down, the officers told the women to take their children and go home. No arrests were made. 

Afterwards, the officers gathered outside the restaurant and spoke to each other. I was introduced as a reporter, and after some banter, I asked the cops who they supported in the upcoming presidential election.

All six stated proudly that they supported Donald Trump.

Nearly every cop and fed I know supported and voted for Trump. Although Kamala Harris touted her law enforcement background as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general, most cops and feds believed she was soft on crime, having called for dismantling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and supported other anti-law enforcement progressive proposals. 

One young police officer that I’ve come to know told me that he was thrilled that Trump won the election.

“Trump’s win is a win for law and order,” the officer said. “The Biden administration, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and other liberals, like Larry Krasner, our district attorney, identify with and support the violent protesters and other criminals and look down on cops. All of my brother Philly cops voted for Trump. I never heard one cop say a good word about Kamala Harris.”

The young officer said that the liberals want no bail for criminals, including violent criminals, and they allow shoplifters to crash stores, as well as allow illegal migrant criminals to enter the U.S. freely and commit crimes here. 

“Vice President Harris is all for giving taxpayer money to illegal migrants for their housing, schooling, shopping and health care, while they want to move police money to questionable social programs that are fraught with fraud. Harris’ priorities are screwed up.

“It will be good to have Trump back in the White House.”

A retired Philadelphia detective who worked most of his career in Kensington also reached out to me and expressed his joy in Trump’s win. 

The detective, whom I toured Kensington’s open drug market with a while back, noted that Trump will close the southern border and curtail the flow of criminals and dangerous drugs, like fentanyl, from entering America.

“He’ll close the southern border and stop some of the fentanyl and other dangerous drugs being shipped to Kensington and other places in the U.S.” the veteran detective said. “President Trump will definitely crimp the cartels’ style. 

“Harris doesn’t believe cops can stop crime. She’s said that in order to stop        crime, cities need more money for public schools, more money for healthcare, and more minority jobs. I’m not against these things,” the retired detective said. “Organizing night basketball and other preventive crime ideas are nice to have, but they have zero effect on hardened criminals. It takes a cop and a good prosecutor to lock up the bad guys.

“Harris is not for law enforcement, we all know,” the retired detective said. “She was quick to jump on the cops responding to street riots across the country, but didn’t say a word of criticism about the thugs looting stores and assaulting cops.”

The former detective went on to state that he was especially happy that Trump won despite the all-out support of Harris by the liberal press and her celebrity endorsers.   

“Trump’s win is a middle finger to the left-wing media and the celebrity entertainers who think they are all powerful and influential,” he said. “Trump’s win shows just how little influence these self-important people actually have.”  

Back in February 2023, Donald Trump announced his plan to restore law and order. 

“Joe Biden and the ‘Defund the Police’ Democrats have turned our once great cities into cesspools of bloodshed and crime,’ Trump said. “There’s never been anything like it. Here’s my plan to restore law and order in our cities and throughout our country, frankly.

“First, because police forces have been gutted by Democrats’ war on police, I will sign a record investment in hiring, retention and training for police officers nationwide. So important.

“This bill will also increase vital liability protections for officers because the Democrats want to take those protections away from our police, because we want them to do their jobs, and we want them to do their jobs right. You can’t take their protections away if you’re going to have them do their jobs properly.

“Second, to qualify for this new funding and all other Justice Department grants, I will insist that local jurisdictions return to proven common sense policing measures, such as stop and frisk — very simple — you stop them and you frisk them, strictly enforcing existing gun laws against convicted felons, cracking down on the open use of illegal drugs, and cooperating with ICE to get criminal aliens off our streets and get them out of our country.

“Third, we will go after the radical Marxist prosecutors who are abolishing cash bail, refusing to charge crimes, and surrendering our cities to violent criminals. They have surrendered like never before. I will direct the DOJ to open civil rights investigations into radical left prosecutor’s offices, such as those in Chicago, L.A., and San Francisco to determine whether they have illegally engaged in race-based enforcement of the law.

“I will also work with Congress to give the victims of their Marxist policies the right to sue local officials for harm and suffering, and it has been great that they have caused. If your small business is pillaged because shoplifting goes unpunished, if you’re brutally attacked by a violent felon released without bail or bond, then you will be entitled to massive damages.

“Fourth, I will order the Department of Justice or as some people call it the ‘Department of injustice’ right now and Homeland Security to dismantle every gang, street crew, and drug network in America. Every single one of them will be dismantled.

“We already know where these turf wars and drug dens are. We know who the people are. And we’re going to charge them and charge the culprits with every crime that we can find. We’re going to be fair, but we’re going to be tough. We also need the death penalty for drug dealers, so important. And I’d also add to that human traffickers. Drug dealers and human traffickers. They get the death penalty, watch it stop and stop quickly.

“Fifth, in cities where there has been a complete breakdown of law and order, where the fundamental rights of our citizens are being intolerably violated, I will not hesitate to send in federal assets including the National Guard until safety is restored.

“If Nancy Pelosi would have accepted our National Guard or our soldiers, you wouldn’t have had January 6, but she and the mayor of D.C. didn’t do that.

“Sixth, we will end the leftist takeover of school discipline and juvenile justice. Many of these carjackers and criminals are thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen years old. I will order the Education and Justice Departments to overhaul federal standards on disciplining minors. So, when troubled youth are out of control, they’re out on the streets and they’re going wild, we will stop it. The consequences are swift, certain and strong and they will know that.

“Seventh, they will protect the right of self-defense everywhere it is under siege. And I will sign concealed carry reciprocity. Your Second Amendment does not end at the state line. In addition, I will of course fully secure the border, dramatically increase interior enforcement, and wage war on the cartels.

“We have never had a border so secure as it was just two years ago. And now our border is the worst anywhere in the world, and possibly of all time. There’s never been a country that’s allowed to happen what’s happening in the United States right now, where millions of people are pouring across our borders. They come from mental institutions. They come from the prisons. They’re all being led out so they can come into the United States. They’re poisoning our country.

“We will also take back our streets from the homeless, the drug addicted, and the mentally ill. I will discuss those plans in much more detail very soon. That is how I will bring back public safety to America. I want to thank you. We’re going to Make America Great Again and we’re going to Make America Safe Again. Thank you.” 

The Philadelphia police officers that I spoke to like Donald Trump’s stance on crime and law and order. 

Paul Davis, a Philadelphia writer and frequent contributor to Broad + Liberty, also contributes to Counterterrorism magazine and writes the “On Crime” column for the Washington Times. He can be reached at pauldavisoncrime.com.