A Republican lawmaker is seeking to punish the perpetrators of police K9 deaths, and she’s also promoting a plan for officers to help get addicts off the streets.
Those measures form part of the congresswoman’s efforts to stand up for law enforcement officers who she says deserve support from Americans, despite the left’s narratives against them.
This from theepochtimes.com.
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 14: House Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness
and Recovery Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL)
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) will soon introduce two bills in support of law enforcement, hoping to boost the morale of all law enforcement personnel in the process. The first she calls “a K9 protection bill.”
The congresswoman told The Epoch Times:
The bill would allow the federal framework to make the killing of a police K9 a felony.
Each time a canine is lost, Cammack said, it’s “tragic” and communities lose their “tremendous contribution” to keeping drugs and criminals off the streets.
A K9’s contribution to upholding law and order cannot be matched.
The lawmaker said the second piece of legislation would:
[H]elp marry the work that our law enforcement does in getting drugs off of the streets to how they are addressing the real challenges of addictions that people are facing.
The bill is essentially an opioid amnesty program for individuals who are addicted and hoping to get clean, Cammack explained. Addicts can turn their drugs and themselves in to law enforcement to be placed into a rehabilitation facility without criminal charges.
The legislation will be named after Chief Graham of the Ocala Police Department who started a similar program in Ocala, Florida, before he tragically died in a helicopter accident in 2020.
Cammack said her ultimate goal is:
[T]o help people fighting and battling addiction to rebuild their lives and get clean and that this really starts with the law enforcement component.
It is also the lawmaker’s desire to get the community to come behind this particular individual to help bridge the gap and get him or her back on their feet.
Specifically, Cammack said this would also involve helping an individual find work, develop skills, and seek mentorship. She is hopeful the two bills will be introduced later this summer.
Support of Law Enforcement
Cammack said her office’s support for law enforcement cannot be overstated.
Much of her motivation is spurred on by:
[W]hat’s happening across the United States, [specifically] a violent crime rate that is through the roof in both rural and urban America.
She added that the opioid and fentanyl crisis is also fueling her support for law enforcement.
And the only way that we are going to stop the lawlessness in our communities is with law and order. Our men and women who wear the badge, they’re the ones who are upholding law and order in our communities.
The lawmaker considers the left’s efforts to defund the police to be ludicrous. Taking the ‘border invasion’ into account, she said,
Anyone with common sense call tell you that you cannot protect our hometowns if you can’t defend the homeland. Upholding law and order is the country’s first and last line of defense.
With support for law enforcement fading in some areas around the country, Cammack said that some officers are feeling “an overwhelming sense of dejection, sadness, and frustration.”
It all stems from the rhetoric, which has been followed closely by the action, of the ultra-liberal left to defund and dismantle our departments.
This has had a far-reaching impact on the police force’s ability to operate effectively, she noted.
Sadly, even the pro-law enforcement community doesn’t make deputies immune from what’s happening around the rest of the country.
As a result, the retention rate of some police departments is suffering, she said, adding that in some areas:
Getting people interested in the profession is like pulling teeth because it has been so marred by the left.
All true and encouraging to read that at least one politician is trying to help law enforcement and border protection.
One important fact that Congresswoman Cammack does not mention, however, is that the democrat-communist efforts to defund the police and to create havoc and mayhem in Our Nation’s streets and communities is the intentional diminishment America.
More Conservative politicians must become involved in this fight.
Meanwhile, God speed to Representative Cammack.
And God speed to the powers of right and true.
