Repudiate the Anti-Police Narrative
Comments submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives in response to the Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices
Heather Mac Donald
June 10, 2020
Shifting police funding to social services will not solve crime. For decades, New York City was the welfare capital of the United States, spending one-seventh of all government welfare dollars. Crime continued to rise. Crime started falling in the city only when the New York Police Department adopted the data-driven policing that has now become the norm across the country.
But the most urgent task before this committee is to repudiate the narrative that law enforcement is infected by racism. The atmosphere in which officers are working is becoming more vicious and volatile. The attempts on officers’ lives, some successful, that we have seen in the last two weeks will increase. And under the pervasive charge that they are racist, officers will back off of proactive policing in minority neighborhoods. The victims will be overwhelmingly black.
In 2015 and 2016, when officers also retreated to purely reactionary policing, an additional 2,000 black males died, the largest two-year increase in homicide in half a century. Harvard economist Roland Fryer, University of Utah law professor Paul Cassell, and University of Utah economist Richard Fowles have recently documented what I have called the Ferguson Effect: the sharp rise in crime during episodes of pervasive anti-cop rhetoric and depolicing.
https://www.city-journal.org/repudiate-the-anti-police-narrative
Meanwhile, police in Atlanta will be afraid to do proactive police work and murder and crime rates will explode.
Think the simple truth. It will be illegal to arrest one of the sacred protected class even if they have the blood of a thousand on them.
From a civilian side of things, if you don’t allow the sacred protected to rape, rob, assault or murder you will be an automatic death sentence to be carried out less than 1 hour from arraignment.
This is probably a calculated charge to give the mayor of Atlanta some breathing room - right now she can’t breathe - and save her job.
I know what to think. All was okay until the perp resisted arrest and went and grabbed the stun gun and tried to use it on the cops. This was NOT a murder. Those cops had no way of knowing this guy would get all crazy.
Can’t see anything higher than negligent homicide, if that....the DA is trying to make a name....like Reno and other crooked folks have been wont to do.