Posted on 08/14/2021 4:11:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Another horrific instance of violence in America occurred August 7: the killing of Chicago police officer Ella French and the shooting of her partner. The two brothers arrested in this case include 21-year-old Emonte Morgan, who received a sentence of probation in 2019 for robbery in lieu of jail time. His brother, Eric Morgan, was also on probation.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's tepid response to the killing was a statement that it's "time for us to come together as a city." When Lightfoot visited the hospitalized officer, dozens of Chicago police officers reportedly turned their backs on her, and she was "scolded" by the officer's father. She dismissed the incident by posting that "in a time of tragedy, emotions run high."
No, the officer's father was not "running high," and the idea that "guns" were responsible is ridiculous. Ella French died and her partner was seriously wounded because of the evil of violent criminals, because those criminals had been let out on the streets with no jail time at all, and because criminals have been emboldened by politicians who are too quick to attack and call for defunding the police.
Unfortunately, Ella French was not the only officer killed recently in Chicago or in America as a whole. Three hundred sixty-nine officers died in the line of duty in the USA in 2020; so far in 2021, 194 have died. Some of these deaths occurred because of the toxic environment in which police officers work. Without the support of liberal politicians, the police are alone on our streets. Their job has always been a dangerous one, but it is made more dangerous because of city and state leaders, and of the Biden administration, that refuse to wholeheartedly support them.
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I never can tell if these psycho leftist actually believe what they say?
Kind of like the difference between pretending to be an idiot or actually being a idiot.
I guess it really doesn’t matter..she’s a idiot.
Three hundred sixty-nine officers died in the line of duty in the USA in 2020;
so far in 2021, 194 have died.
The first obligation of government is to protect its citizens, whether from foreign attack or violence in their own country.
Government is not fulfilling its obligation, particularly amid the movement to defund the police.
The author fails to mention the vast majority of violent crime exist in major, democrat led for decades, urban jungles.
It’s not America The Violent. It’s inner cities, democrat-ruled areas.
That is not only true. It is factual.
Such people hold poorly-considered axioms which are appealing yet incompatible with the real world. They apply those axioms in ways that make sense to them. When conflicting with the real world, cognitive dissonance sets in, allowing them to hold contradictory concepts (a la George Orwell).
Hence such morons in positions of authority.
Bkmk
The only way to address violent crime is to double or triple funding for the police and give them the authority to go after violent offenders. The police are our heroes — Ella French was a hero — and heroes need to know that we have their backs.
This article is another example of a beautiful collection of words that totally miss the point, the cause of the problem.
While I am for more cops and more funding and lots more jail time sprinkled with a few executions, this article misses the point altogether.
Whereas money is a problem, it is not the cure. We can give them all of our money and it will not cure the problem so long as incompetent and corrupt politicians are the ones who manage the money and hire those who are to enforce the laws.
The major crime areas are all managed by corrupt or incompetent mayors and in most cases incompetent chiefs of police. More money does not solve that problem.
The solution is to get our elections under control and eliminate the fraud in elections.
Put the right people in office and they will in turn select competent people to enforce our laws.
Money does not fix all problems
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