Why Black Communities Need the Police
with Heather Mac Donald
My guest this week, Heather Mac Donald, coined the term “the Ferguson Effect.” In this clip, she talks about how continuing reductions in policing and fewer cops are harming black communities.
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The need for police is evident in one large city after another. Crime has jumped and law-abiding black people are disproportionately impacted by other blacks who are running wild and being allowed to do so by the criminal justice system. The intellectual bankruptcy of BLM has been exposed for anyone paying attention. The typical black life does not matter at all. Only when there potential political gain is a particular life given attention.
There were riots after George Floyd. There was chaos after Breonna Taylor. By comparison, how many people remember the name of the man brutalized by cops in Memphis? That case went away rather quickly. It's reasonable to ask how much of that to do with the officers being black themselves. Have we become so desensitized to black on black crime that it warps our view when the assailants carry guns and badges? As best anyone can tell, the incident didn't start over something seriously criminal. It was personal. And it was part of the fallout from BLM, which chased away veteran officers and warped public view toward law enforcement in general.
One might say that the defund people created the exact scenario that anyone could have foreseen. The thing about foreseeable consequences is that they're never accidental. They are intentional. What's happening across the country is the natural outgrowth of elections and policy decisions. Look at Chicago. The place is awash in crime and the electorate's response is to elect a teachers' union mouthpiece as mayor, a man who, even before taking office, excused the behavior of a rampaging mob. Not that the outgoing mayor's tone was any different. When elected officials are justifying the unjustifiable, it's not going to end well and the people hurt most are going to be the ones that the politicians claim to care about.
I hate to be the guy to tell you but, this is as good as it gets.
70%, on its way to 80%, single mother, fatherless homes.
Useless public schools, glorified debauchery and feral savagery.
We will look back in 10 years and think these were the good times.