Posted on 04/24/2017 4:55:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The most immediate goal of the Trump administration should be to change the elite-driven narrative about the criminal-justice system. That narrative, which holds that policing is lethally racist, has dominated public discourse since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. In response, officers are backing off of proactive policing, and violent crime is rising fast: 2015 saw the largest one-year spike in homicides nationwide in nearly 50 years. That violent-crime increase has continued unabated through 2016 and into the early months of 2017. A Trump administration official—perhaps Attorney General Sessions, or the president himself—should publicly address the question of what we expect from police officers: Do we want them to be proactive and to try to stop crime before it happens? Or do we want them to be purely reactive, responding to crime only after someone has been victimized? The administration should explain that data-driven, proactive policing made possible the country’s 20-year, 50 percent violent-crime decline that began in the mid-1990s.
In February, Sessions made a good start in turning around the false narrative about policing, addressing the National Association of Attorneys General. Sessions warned that the nation’s violent-crime decline is now at risk, while acknowledging that the crime increase is not happening in every neighborhood. Yet we are diminished as a nation, he said, when citizens “fear for their life when they leave their home.” (To be blunt, the violent-crime increase has hit almost exclusively in black neighborhoods. Nine hundred additional black males were murdered in 2015 compared with 2014, bringing total black homicide deaths that year to more than 7,000. It is a marker of the perversity of elite rhetoric about race that both Trump and Sessions have been fiercely attacked as racist for pledging to save black lives.)
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Heather Mac Donald Ping.
I love Heather and her work, but reversing illegal immigration and getting tax cuts through to revive the economy (so the GOP won’t lose the House in 2018, however undeserving they are) IMO are the top two priorities right now. (With Gorsuch already in place.)
Repealing Obamacare should be up there, but unfortunately neither the Trump admin nor the GOP Congress apparently have the will to do that—choosing a “tweak and relabel” endorsement of the Obamacare approach instead.
Well, Heather thinks helping the cops is the most important issue because that and inner city problems are her pet issues.
Indeed—her pet and professional issues.
The liberal answer would be (and has been) to make it harder for law abiding people to own guns. Black crime stats drive the anti-2A infringing.
Bump. She is awesome, and please add me to the HM ping list.
That said, I would be happy to add you to that list.
Bo is responsible. One African murdering another without police interference is one of his many accomplishments, his legacy. What escapes Heather’s notice, are the hate crimes that are daily committed by Africans against whites and Asians. This too is an Obama legacy.
Nine hundred additional black males were murdered in 2015 compared with 2014, bringing total black homicide deaths that year to more than 7,000. It is a marker of the perversity of elite rhetoric about race...
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Look at what Obama and the Democrats did for black people. At least they’re consistent.
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