May 29, 2022
The war on police meets the Uvalde shooting
By Francis P. Sempa
Since the Obama administration, and with the rise of anti-police district attorneys in several of our major cities, law enforcement has been placed on the defensive by civil authorities, liberal politicians, and the media. "Defund the police" movements have urged cities and towns to abolish or greatly reduce police forces. Liberal district attorneys have publicly announced that they will not prosecute offenders who resist the police. Each time a police officer uses deadly force, he is second-guessed, third-guessed, and all too often presumed guilty of using excessive force. This phenomenon has been meticulously documented by the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald in several articles and in her book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.
Mac Donald detailed what she called a "multipronged attack on law enforcement" and a "crusade against law enforcement" since at least 2014, led by organized groups, and supported by liberal politicians at the local, state, and federal level, that promote the idea that "police officers are the greatest threat facing" young minority males. In response to this anti-police rhetoric and activity, she writes, "the police began to disengage from proactive policing."
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