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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and the corporations funded this!
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They are for anything that they feel will give them a perceived short term marketing advantage or hopes of growing market share of certain demographic groups.
If it means supporting lawlessness and wokeism they will fund it.
Basically its an extended form of advertising.
Good post. About as real as it gets.
Anarchy is reserved for when the Democrat Party is not in power.
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The Democrats rely on apathy and fear to advance their socialist agenda.
Nothing will change until people stand up to them. Bullies don’t cease their intimidation tactics until someone pushes back hard.
Unfortunately for us, we don’t have a party that is willing to do what is necessary to take the fight to the liberals.
The fake concern for law and order will disappear as soon as the dems are re elected.
The NAACP was established in 1909. Most of its founders were white leftists. The organization didn’t have a black leader until decades later. It was always just a big racket.
The fake concern for law and order will disappear as soon as the dems are re elected.
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You’re right, of course, but both parties specialize in fake concern. Say one thing before the election and forget it the day after they get re-elected.
Yes. Too bad the Washington Post won't admit to their contribution to the problem.
How is “law and order” a set back to black loves mattering?
BLM was set up shortly after DJTrump announced, or thereabouts. It collected hundreds of millions of $$$, most of which was funneled to the DNC and their ilk.
Gov’mt and Demos did not fund BLM, it was the other way around, with money passing thru non-profits.
All along politiocs were skimming the money flow.
But, it was set up to spread terror (See what DJT brought us?) and fund opposition to America.
that is the question of the day
Law and Order=”setback”
Yet the idiot voters who voted in the idiots who imposed this nonsense will vote for the same idiots who now say they’re against it.
The Left is free of consequence.
I might dispute this premise . . . .
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