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Gutfeld on defunding the police
By Greg Gutfeld | Fox News
Who knew that calling the cops, when your family is threatened, comes from a place of privilege?
Here's this exchange recently on CNN:
Alisyn Camerota, CNN anchor: What if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into. Who do I call?
Lisa Bender, Minneapolis City Council president: Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege.
What an idiot!
That was the president of the Minneapolis city council, who's planning a formal vote to defund the police.
So after days of violent unrest, that’s their next step.
If you do not believe that we are in the middle of a mass delusion, where humanity is willfully rejecting what works for what destroys, I don't think I can't help you.
But if you can't beat the mob, when not help them?
Let’s defund. But baby steps first. -- It’s too expensive to start from scratch and create a police-free city.
So let’s pick two cities and observe the outcomes.
Because the Minneapolis city council is voting to defund, let’s go with them first.
And for comparison, let’s do Hollywood, where some celebs, who signed an open letter demanding defunding, actually live.
The comparison eliminates race from the equation and sits it squarely on something else: wealth and class.
While citizens of Minneapolis will fall prey to chaos and roving gangs of violence -- last week being the prequel -- Hollywood will rely on private security, which many of its fabulous inhabitants already enjoy. read more
By Greg Gutfeld | Fox News
Who knew that calling the cops, when your family is threatened, comes from a place of privilege?
Here's this exchange recently on CNN:
Alisyn Camerota, CNN anchor: What if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into. Who do I call?
Lisa Bender, Minneapolis City Council president: Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege.
What an idiot!
That was the president of the Minneapolis city council, who's planning a formal vote to defund the police.
So after days of violent unrest, that’s their next step.
If you do not believe that we are in the middle of a mass delusion, where humanity is willfully rejecting what works for what destroys, I don't think I can't help you.
But if you can't beat the mob, when not help them?
Let’s defund. But baby steps first. -- It’s too expensive to start from scratch and create a police-free city.
So let’s pick two cities and observe the outcomes.
Because the Minneapolis city council is voting to defund, let’s go with them first.
And for comparison, let’s do Hollywood, where some celebs, who signed an open letter demanding defunding, actually live.
The comparison eliminates race from the equation and sits it squarely on something else: wealth and class.
While citizens of Minneapolis will fall prey to chaos and roving gangs of violence -- last week being the prequel -- Hollywood will rely on private security, which many of its fabulous inhabitants already enjoy. read more
Whiskey Politicswith Dave Sussman |
Whiskey Politics with Dave Sussman
Why We Need the PoliceThey save lives and keep New York City safe for all residents—especially the most vulnerable.
Heather Mac Donald June 8, 2020 CITY JOURNAL New York, Public safety“How lovely when we see the police! They are my friends.” So said an elderly lady attending a police-community meeting in the Bronx several years ago. Her voice is representative of the thousands of senior citizens, middle-aged workers, and small-business owners who fervently support the New York Police Department. These vulnerable New Yorkers want more police presence, not less; they view officers as their only protection against predation. What will the activists seeking to defund the NYPD tell these law-abiding residents—that they are now on their own? The people who live in high-crime neighborhoods understand more about policing than the anti-cop agitators. Since the early 1990s, when the homicide toll in New York City topped 2,000 per year, tens of thousands of lives have been saved, thanks to the NYPD’s highly responsive, data-driven policing. That policing model, known as Compstat, holds precinct commanders ruthlessly accountable for crime in their jurisdiction; it has driven homicide down 86 percent from 1990, to only 319 in 2019. Most of the lives saved by suppressing crime since then have been black and Hispanic. At the same time that the department has lowered crime to levels that would have been viewed as unimaginable three decades ago, it has radically cut its use of lethal force; the NYPD has among the lowest per-capita rates of officer shootings among big-city departments nationwide. In 2018, the most recent year for which full data are available, NYPD recorded the lowest number of shooting incidents since records were first kept in 1971—35—and the lowest number of subjects shot and killed: five. Four of those suspects were threatening officers with guns or knives; the fifth, reported as being armed by bystanders, pointed what appeared to be a gun at the responding cops. read more
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