The Biden Justice Department awarded millions of dollars to charities linked to Soros-backed district attorneys last year. This from justthenews.com.
Our tax dollars have been awarded in the form of crime-reduction grants to groups that back the same anti-police, soft-on-crime policies implemented by George Soros-funded district attorneys that critics argue have unleashed a surge in urban crime.
Those policies—including the defunding or restructuring of police departments, bail reform, less incarceration, decriminalizing and deprioritizing a broad range of criminal offenses—have been linked to skyrocketing criminal violence in many Democrat-led cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York City.
In Los Angeles, for instance, the Urban Peace Institute (UPI) received $1 million for its South Los Angeles Peacemakers program to make the city safer. The UPI has called for the “radical restructuring” of American policing, including shifting power from police to community “peacemakers.” The nonprofit was instrumental in progressive Los Angeles DA George Gascon’s criminal justice changes in the city, according to a report.
Amid the anti-police protests and rioting roiling democrat-led cities following the May 2020 death of George Floyd, UPI urged radical overhaul of law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
“Change is only going to come from a seismic shift in power away from police, police unions, and the justice system towards a transformative investment in community-led safety and health solutions,” UPI proclaimed on its website. “American policing needs radical restructuring. Public safety should be redefined by communities that experience over-policing and violence.”
Is this not insane crazy talk? We, as a nation, are doomed if our city leaders continue to listen to this radical liberal pie-in-the-sky bullsh*t.
In Re-imagining Public Safety, a list of recommendations posted on its site, UPI outlines five broad objectives: end over-policing of communities of color, end police violence and brutality, reimagine policing for public trust, invest in community-based alternatives to public safety, and ensure community-led police accountability.
Focused far more on restricting law enforcement than on curbing crime, the nonprofit’s specific proposals include the following:
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End and divest funding from law enforcement practices that support systemic racism, use of force, and warrior style policing;
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End stop and frisk practices;
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End racial and gang profiling;
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End use of gang databases and injunctions;
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End police in schools;
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End police collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE);
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Decriminalize and deprioritize enforcement of minor crimes;
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End use of adversarial policing and aggressive suppression tactics;
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Transform use of force policies;
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Require police departments to bear the cost of misconduct; settlements should be paid out of police budgets;
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Transform policing approach from warrior-style to guardian-style policing;
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Divest funding from law enforcement practices that support systemic racism, use of force, and warrior style policing to fund alternative community-based public safety strategies;
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Build a comprehensive community-based public safety infrastructure focused on non-law enforcement approaches to neighborhood health and safety;
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Review public safety budgets at the state, county, and city level to reprioritize funding to improve community health and safety; redistribute public safety funding responsibilities between city, county, and state;
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End the use of police in schools and divest funding to support school mental health counselors, gang intervention and outreach workers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and public health workers;
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Create police commission and civilian complaints offices including community oversight with subpoena power;
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Invest in community leadership training to ensure police accountability is driven by communities of color most impacted by over policing;
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Ensure expedient officer discipline and prosecution without pay when under investigation of an alleged crime or improper use of force;
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Assign independent prosecutors for use of force cases;
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Establish policies that allow individuals to review police video and audio footage of their interaction with police without a court order;
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End the application of qualified immunity doctrine to police accused of use of excessive and/or deadly force;
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Require policing data publication for arrests, diversion, officer-involved shootings with disaggregation by race, age, and zip code;
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End police union interference in the oversight and crafting of police accountability;
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State legislatures must separate negotiation of contracts on police wages and benefits from law enforcement disciplinary procedures;
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Revise state “Officer Bill of Rights” to ensure it does not interfere with officer accountability.
The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment. Can you imagine why not? How could they possibly defend such insanity?
Note: One of UPI’s co-founders, Connie Rice, is financially tied to leftist billionaire leftist kingmaker George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, which has poured more than $3.2 million into one of her other charities, the Advancement Project, which aims to “combat the systemic racism of the criminal legal system.”
What we have here is radical liberalism run amok with our tax dollars and our public safety.
It was not okay for foolish liberals to raise three generations of screwed-up kids. And now it’s equally wrong for these third-generation radical liberals to be in control of our law enforcement dollars and working their insane law enforcement initiatives.
Liberalism must be stopped and eliminated before these nutjobs thoroughly destroy our country.
May God bless America.
And God speed to Conservatism.
