WaPo: When it comes to crime, Democrats are in danger of being mugged by reality Democrats finally managed to escape the “soft on crime” label in the 1990s in part because crime rates began to fall, but also because they took action to show that they could be tough, too. The centerpiece of their efforts was the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, written by then-Sen. Joe Biden and signed by President Bill Clinton. This complex legislation had a bit of everything: the Violence Against Women Act to crack down on domestic abuse, treatment programs for drug addicts, federal funds to build prisons and hire cops, and tough gun controls including a ban on assault rifles. But progressives blamed the law — perhaps unfairly — for the mass incarceration of African American men, and in 2020 Biden was forced to renounce the legislation he had written. Biden’s walk-back from his erstwhile “Lock the S.O.B.s up” ethos came after the murder of George Floyd. This outrage triggered Black Lives Matter protests and led to “defund the police” calls just as crime rates were spiking. While murder rates remain below their nationwide peaks in the early 1990s, 2020 saw a 30 percent jump in homicides — the largest increase in at least a century. The rise in the murder rate slowed in 2021, but a dozen major cities recorded the highest number of homicides ever. Democrats might think they don’t have to worry about “law and order” concerns, because these concerns did not prevent a Biden victory in 2020. But just because you dodged a bullet once doesn’t mean you will always be so lucky. Donald Trump was the incumbent in 2020. That made it hard for Republicans to blame crime on Democrats. Even so, “defund the police” hurt down-ballot Democrats. After the election, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) warned: “We [need to] look at the things that [Republicans] say about us … because it works.” The political carnage this year could be even worse if Democrats don’t do more to reestablish their crime-fighting bona fides. The party has mercifully abandoned talk of defunding the police after that concept was repeatedly rejected at the ballot box. (A growing number of voters, including Black and Hispanic Democrats, want more, not less, spending on police.) But the Democratic brand is badly tarnished by progressive district attorneys in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York who insist on trying to reduce the number of incarcerations during a crime wave. Liberal legislatures have also passed lenient bail laws, which mean that offenders are often out on the streets in record time. Even many liberal Democrats are rebelling against the progressive prosecutors. San Francisco Mayor London Breed sharply criticized District Attorney Chesa Boudin, saying that “these ideologies have been what has failed our city” and “failed Black people in our city.” And in Philadelphia, former mayor Michael Nutter, who is African American, unloaded on the White, progressive DA, writing: “I have to wonder what kind of messed up world of white wokeness [Larry] Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown.” Biden needs to add his voice to the chorus of criticism, making clear that Democrats, as a whole, reject the lenient approach of progressive prosecutors. Democrats need to demonstrate that, while they reject racist and abusive policing, they are pro-police — and tough on crime. Biden unveiled a decent crime-control strategy in June that called for stemming the flow of illegal firearms, supporting local law enforcement and investing in community violence interventions, but he has barely mentioned it since.
Why Democrats lose when they reduce all talk of crime to racism Crime wasn't one of the top issues in last week's elections. But it was among the reasons Democratic number-crunchers concluded their party underperformed at the ballot box last year and is primed to do even worse in the midterm elections of 2022. Violent crime, especially murder, is on the rise. Yet a fashionable and seemingly ascendant part of the Democratic Party is in favor of defunding the police, despite President Biden's best efforts to distance them from the movement (and their idea's telling failure in Minneapolis on Tuesday). Democrats have been down this road before. Beginning in the late 1960s, the most liberal among them began asserting that the phrase "law and order" was a euphemism for white backlash against civil rights gains. Racial animus certainly drives a nontrivial part of the conversation about crime, both then and now. But people of all backgrounds genuinely do not want to be raped and murdered or see their families become victims.
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Faced with a crime wave, a weak Joe Biden tries to change the subject How do you know President Joe Biden is worried about his rock-bottom approval ratings? He has finally been forced to address the massive rise in crime rates that is occurring on his watch. The long-belated renunciation of his party's "defund the police" message came just after a police funeral at which Manhattan's soft-on-crime Democratic prosecutor was excoriated by the widow. Better late than never, perhaps — but Biden's attempts at political deflection will not actually stop crime. The message he chose — the same cynical, disingenuous message on crime that Democrats adopted the last time it was a major concern in the early 1990s — demonstrates that the current crime wave will continue until a whole lot of Democrats are thrown out of office. Speaking at a forum in Manhattan, Biden again called for draconian gun control laws. They were a combination of the laws that criminals already bypass and ignore, universal background checks, and crackdowns (on the "iron pipeline") that are more rhetorical than real. Biden's speech followed a long tradition of Democratic crime speeches in which criminals are coddled and inanimate objects are blamed for the crimes those criminals commit. Indeed, it reminds one of the early 1990s, when then-President Bill Clinton blamed crime on gun owners and proposed midnight basketball as the answer. Beyond the facial absurdity of that position, Biden's approach has at least one fatal logical flaw. One cannot plausibly blame guns for a sudden spike in crime if the supply of guns remained constant. There has been no sudden surge in the availability of guns above and beyond what was there in, say, 2019, 2015, or even 2012. So gun availability cannot explain the sudden spike in shootings in New York City, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, and other major cities.
Crime spikes force schools to reinstate resource officers as defund movement collapses Vice president of Fraternal Order of Police National said, 'Everybody's having buyer's remorse for defunding the police' https://www.foxnews.com/us/defund-the-police-return-school-resource-officers As the defund the police movement spread across the country like wildfire in 2020, school resource officers' budgets were slashed and many officers were removed from hallways. Nearly two years later, that’s beginning to change as crimes swell in public schools. "I think what you're seeing and the reaction from these school districts is exactly what we're seeing in almost every major city in this country: Everybody's having buyer's remorse for defunding the police," Fraternal Order of Police National Vice President Joe Gamaldi told Fox News Digital on Monday. "We had 16 American cities last year have their highest murder rates in recorded history, and now people are quickly backtracking and realizing that police officers provide safety in our communities," he added. In Montgomery County, Maryland, schools welcomed students back to campus this school year without officers patrolling the hallways for the first time since 2002. Instead, they had "community engagement officers" who patrol areas near the schools. In the first four months of class, a staggering 1,688 911 calls were made. All in all, there have been 102 sex assaults, 87 assaults, 82 school threats, 76 controlled substance incidents, 57 weapon-related incidents, 57 conflicts, 35 mental health incidents, 28 property crimes and four robberies between August and February in the schools, 7News reported. The crimes hit a fever pitch when a shooting rang out at Magruder High School in the county on Jan. 21, which intensified calls from the community to get police back on campus. Now, the district is working on a plan to increase police presence at schools, though not to previous SRO levels. It’s not a unique situation: Alexandria, Virginia, saw more of the same. The Virginia school district was rocked by a spate of violent fights at the schools at the start of this school year, which some blamed on the Alexandria City Council voting to do away with the officers in the spring of 2021. "Our students are sending us warning shots, literally warning shots," Peter Balas, Alexandria City High School principal, said at an October meeting regarding bringing SROs back to campus. "Please reconsider this. My staff, my students. We’re not OK." The city council ultimately voted in October to temporarily reinstate SROs in schools through the end of this school year. And in California, the Pomona Unified School Board voted to defund its school police last year. But just four months later, SROs were back on campus after a shooting broke out near Pomona High School and left a 12-year-old injured. To law enforcement officials who work as school resources officers, such as Rudy Perez, the vice president of the National Association of School Resource Officers,the job is "really not about being a cop." It’s instead "truly about being part of that ecosystem that you can address the safety issues, concerns that parents have, that teachers have." "I can honestly tell you as a campus law enforcement officer, it was more 90% … managing tension and figuring out problem-solving. Ten percent of it was really enforcement," Perez told Fox News Digital. (More at above url)
US police spending never went down though Of course you can expect piece of shit police unions to lie though.