Posted on 10/31/2021 5:53:38 AM PDT by EBH
Mayoral candidates across the country are closing out their campaigns pledging to restore law and order, a major setback for racial justice protesters who only a year ago thought they had permanently reshaped the debate on policing in American cities.
As voters head to the polls Tuesday, local elections are dominated by discussions about safety and law enforcement amid a surge in violent crime. The tone of the debate, even in many liberal urban communities, highlights how major policing reforms have stalled.
From Buffalo to Seattle, Democratic politicians who once championed significant reductions or reallocations of police department budgets are backtracking. In other cities, including Cleveland, liberal candidates are being hammered over their stances on public safety.
And even in cities without a competitive mayor’s race, the question of how to get tough on crime and bolster public safety has emerged as a defining issue. In Miami Beach, for example, Mayor Dan Gelber (D) is campaigning for a controversial referendum that would ban the sale of alcohol at bars and nightclubs after 2 a.m., which the mayor says is needed to regain control of the city after a tumultuous year of unruly behavior and gun violence. Gelber is also exploring how Miami Beach can hire more police officers.
“My residents are saying ‘we need to crackdown’, or ‘we need to have zero tolerance,’ ” said Gelber, adding that his party has been hampered by public perceptions that it is soft on crime...
...“Mayors aren’t stupid, and they understand if taxpaying residents of their city start leaving, as they did in the 1970s, the whole city is endangered,” said Hill, who teaches economics at Ohio State’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs. “But more importantly, they understand it’s the home-owning residents who turn out to vote in nonpresidential election years, and
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The headline admits that BLM is incompatible with law and order.
Dig deep enough and I’ll bet there is a connection from the FBI to BLM as part of their operation to destroy Trump.
Any dem lib commie mayoral candidate that is touting a law and order platform is lying. They will lie to get elected then in the dark of night go right back to their previous schemes.
It’s all about cracking down on vaccine or other mandate protesters. The real lawbreakers...
Black Lives Matter is a made up organization that is in fact the terrorist arm of the racist black NAACP
BLM is a viral seasonal strain of the Black Plague that is the NAACP
The NAACP is an American Domestic Enemy that must be erradicated
Cities now have competition, Bloods, Crips and BLM. BLM is nothing but sanctioned organized crime.
F them. The article is amazing in that they almost sound surprised.
From Buffalo to Seattle, Democratic politicians who once championed significant reductions or reallocations of police department budgets are backtracking. In other cities, including Cleveland, liberal candidates are being hammered over their stances on public safety.
You really have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that defunding the Police will result in a better community.
The NAACP is an American Domestic Enemy that must be erradicated
Nearly ALL those groups are leftist. If you want to know where the people with “useless” college degrees go, then look no further than the non-profits. And they make a VERY good living there.
It is a clear tragedy what the NAACP has morphed into. A very close minded racist organization. A dark handmaiden of the Democrat/Socialist Party.
It wasn’t always this way.
I used to be a member in the early ‘70’s, back when they seemed dedicated to the advancement of black people as integrated members of American society.
They will lie to get elected then in the dark of night go right back to their previous schemes.
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Unfortunately, that is what I think will happen.
What does it tell us when “law and order” is a setback for a group?
The headline admits that BLM is incompatible with law and order.
ya think? and the corporations funded this!
Yes, and democrat politicians pass trillions of $$ in spending to support those causes.
Between them and the unions, it’s a circle fest of our money directed to them, so they can contribute it back to perpetuate the thiefdom.
Yes, how can a return to law and order ever be viewed as a setback for anyone?
Spot on comment.
The pendulum is starting to swing. But one of the big dangers is that it swings too far, then we will become totalitarian. the liberals have greased the skids, as we are well on our way to a Totalitarian State because of the infatuation with mandates of ALL kinds. Deep State Liberals love Totalitarianism and hate freedom. That is the basis of their Party. Deep State Republicans are not Conservative, but also have the same core values as liberal Democrats. “Power to the Deep State, and I am one of the selected few”.
Anarchy is reserved for when the Democrat Party is not in power.
Regardless of what they now say with the elections days away, don’t vote for the same old, same old that did not stand for law and order in the first place. Liberal democRATs have shown that they are not about law and order otherwise, there’d be no sanctuary cities; allowing illegals to hide in their states; allow non-citizens to vote.
Wake up........ get real
The City States that control the nation are presently already totalitarian entities.
The law has degenerated into the will of carefully selected judges. Thede judges are tyrants with total control
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