Remember when police officers were viewed as heroes by most Americans?
Police officers, unlike almost all other professions, literally put their lives on the line every day so the rest of us can live in a safe society. This in part from redstate.com.
However, in recent years, “police officers have become persona non grata due to a concerted campaign” by emboldened leftwing groups and the mass propaganda media who portray law enforcement as excessively violent and unrighteously racist.
Although the left’s crusade to tar and feather police officers has a long and sordid history, it gained mainstream appeal after the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020.
Following the death of Floyd—a drugged-out career criminal who was resisting arrest and while struggling to avoid arrest died of drug-induced health problems— the “defund the police” movement was born. Groups such as Black Lives Matter were instrumental in perpetuating many myths about police officers, namely that they murder unarmed black men.
Of course, these pernicious lies are completely unfounded. There is not, nor has been, a spate of police officers killing unarmed black men. For instance, in 2021, four unarmed black Americans were shot and killed by police. That same year, seven unarmed white Americans were shot and killed by police.
On the other hand, we have witnessed a huge rise in unprovoked attacks on police officers in recent years.
Consider that in 2021, 73 police officers were killed due to felonious activity, a nearly 60 percent increase from one year ago. What’s more, among the 73 officers killed in the line of duty last year, 24 were killed in unprovoked attacks.
In other words, in 2021, just one year after the George Floyd riots, unprovoked attacks on police officers increased to the highest number on record. For comparison’s sake, in 2019, seven police officers were killed in unprovoked attacks. In 2020, the number was 10.
Even more shocking, in 2021, eight additional officers were killed during “premediated ambushes,” which means 32 law enforcement officers were basically executed last year.
One obvious degree of causation or correlation concerning the sudden rise of the defund the police movement and the spike in police officer killings is the George Soros, et al financing of a revolution in harmful, destructive, anti-societal criminal justice change. In most large cities there are Soros-funded and directed progressive DAs leading movements to abolish bail and defund the police. This has turned criminals back out onto the streets to commit further mayhem unabated.
Even before the 2020 nationwide riots against “systemic police brutality,” the seed had been planted that police officers, by and large, were the bad guys. From the “hands up don’t shoot” lie regarding the death of Michael Brown to the fabrications surrounding the death of Freddie Gray, the left-stream media and leftwing anti-police activists have been quick to throw police under the bus.
If America were a just system of crime and punishment, the mass propaganda media would be charged and investigated for the impartial truths, misleading stories, and outright lies they report which consequently bring about further problems and the deaths of many innocent victims.
It stands to reason that the constant drumbeat of falsehoods regarding police officers over recent years has created a skewed societal mindset, which has led to the current zeitgeist in which far too many police officers are depicted as inherently evil instead of protectors of the community.
Just to show how out-of-touch many Americans, especially those on the left, are in terms of the reality regarding police killings of unarmed blacks, more than 50 percent of Americans who self-identify as “very liberal” believe police officers killed 1,000 or more unarmed black men in 2019.
Sadly, the trend of police assassinations does not seem to be abating in 2022. In New York City, two officers were recently killed when they responded to a “routine” domestic disturbance call. Shortly after entering the apartment, both were killed in cold blood.
A fact worth noting and one conservative leadership must address immediately upon their return to control: “Throughout history, the collapse of law and order has foreshadowed the breakdown of civilization.”
If America does not reverse course, the civil society we take for granted could very well be dissolved and our nation thrown into chaos, ripe for invasion by one or more opportunistic hostile nations.
Watch any apocalyptic movie or read any apocalyptic novel and you will gain a greater understanding of what life and death will quickly become in our America.
May God bless America.
And God speed to the brilliance of Conservatism.
