In the aftermath of George Floyd’s drug overdose death, numerous communist/globalist-led cities embraced sweeping police reforms.
Without any evidence their radical ideas would work, many cities defunded police departments, eliminated cash bail, released felons from prison, and lightened sentences for certain crimes. Further, in some cities, sadly, district attorneys refused to prosecute most crimes.
This from thepatriotjournal.com.
The consequences of these decisions have been devastating, especially in one city known for crime. Now, after three years of madness, the mayor is issuing a major about-face. And she is admitting the left failed.
From The Post Millennial:
On Monday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that her administration would be ditching police reforms brought in following the death of George Floyd in favor of policies that will actually help bring down the city’s skyrocketing level of crime.
Mayor Bowser of D.C. announced a new law that will reverse the pro-criminal, anti-cop policies put into place during 2020. The Addressing Crime Trends (ACT) Now Act will end progressive policies that resulted in skyrocketing crime across the nation’s capital.
Bowser was forced to admit the left-wing policies that saw cops defunded and crime encouraged did not “match the daily practice of safe and effective policing.” She went on to say that the new reforms will:
[S]end the strong message that violence is not acceptable in our city, and this perception that people have that you can commit a brazen crime and get away with it has got to stop.
This is a striking departure from the ideals being spread by local Leftists for years. With the rise of Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests, the Left was quick to blame police officers for violence against black Americans.
They eagerly passed laws that stripped cops of resources and funding. And progressive DAs refused to prosecute crimes, claiming “criminal justice reform.” But every city that embraced these policy changes saw dramatic rises in crime.
Some quietly tried to restore police funding. Most admitted there was a problem. But Mayor Bowser is one of a growing number of communists/globalists openly confronting criminals and promising to bring them to justice.
The mayor of Dallas took a similar stance against rising crime in his city, enacting strong measures to curtail the crisis. He took the further step, however, to switch to the Republican Party–blaming communist/globalist (democrat) policies for the ongoing crisis.
Final thoughts: Is this a re-election stunt or have these mayors begun to realize those smart pills they have been eating really are rabbit sh*t? Whichever, given their sheer stupidity and the harm they have brought to their cities they should be indicted rather than re-elected.
