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Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Mayors and Police Chiefs are Being Accused of White Supremacy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RwRDQcMXRyE\/X3PP9jRX4wI\/AAAAAAAAScM\/zlB51As3d_8b-qrIDxbS5wtmflpwgiY8wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/outlaw2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RwRDQcMXRyE\/X3PP9jRX4wI\/AAAAAAAAScM\/zlB51As3d_8b-qrIDxbS5wtmflpwgiY8wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/outlaw2.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E“I would have so much more respect for the Bail Fund if they had bailed him out and then let him stay in one of their homes,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins blasted the Massachusetts Bail Fund.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA statement from a DA blasting the MBF for freeing a rapist wouldn't usually be extraordinary, except that Rollins, whose campaign was backed by George Soros, was supposed to be different. Not only had Rollins run on a pro-crime platform promising not to prosecute shoplifting, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest, but she had reacted to the Black Lives Matter riots with a hysterical rant about her rage and the white community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERollins had dismissed the damage from Black Lives Matter riots because it \"could be fixed\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then the Massachusetts Bail Fund freed Shawn McClinton, a convicted sex offender, who had been accused of raping a woman a few weeks after he was let go, leading Rollins to snap.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe Massachusetts Bail Fund, whose motto is “Free them all”, really meant it.\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe problem that Rachael Rollins, the first black DA of Suffolk County, a pro-crime black nationalist activist, ran into is a familiar one for a new generation of leftist politicians, many from an identity politics slate, who learned the hard way that they will always be out-radicaled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s no longer enough to just support riots and property crimes, you have to support rapists too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter wave destroyed the credibility and leadership of a new wave of identity politics Democrats who had seemed exciting until they were actually tested and failed miserably.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few years ago, Jenny Durkan was being hailed as the first lesbian mayor of Seattle. Then she was besieged by a Black Lives Matter mob, and, after hailing CHOP as a new Summer of Love, had no choice but to shut it down. Carmen Best, Seattle’s first black police chief, was forced to resign after facing police defunding budget cuts that decimated her department.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChief Danielle Outlaw, formerly Portland's first black police commissioner, who got away from the city's perpetual riots to become Philadelphia's first black female commissioner, discovered that there's no escaping the violence. Many of the cities at the center of the violence have tried appointing black police leaders and electing black DAs only to realize that doesn’t appease.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The fact that I, as a very obvious African American female police chief, have been accused by those within that group or those who support that group, as being a supporter and protector of those who are believed to be white supremacists—if that's even the case—is ridiculous. Right?” Chief Outlaw had wondered back in Portland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChief Outlaw may have thought that she would leave that kind of craziness behind when she left Portland, but she was soon being accused of white supremacy in Philly when the police didn’t crack down on white business owners protecting their businesses from BLM rioters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We do not condone any acts of violence, and as an agency we don't take sides,\" she argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELori Lightfoot’s victory was supposed to calm the radicals in Chicago who had bedeviled Rahm Emanual. The city, for the first time in its history, had a number of firsts, a black female lesbian leader, who represented everything that the identity politics slate wanted or could possibly want.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the pandemic and the riots left her hopefully outmatched and outclassed. Like many other leftist city leaders, Mayor Lightfoot was forced to ban BLM rioters from rallying on her block.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter activists were soon accusing Lightfoot of \"creating problems in black and brown communities to protect white people\" and having \"bloodied people for their disobedience to white supremacy\", by which they meant taking the minimum possible steps to stop the riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so the black lesbian mayor of Chicago had officially become a white supremacist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe speed with which the ‘firsts’ who break glass ceilings become the enemy is breathtaking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles DA Jackey Lacey went from being hailed as \"the first woman and first African-American to serve as Los Angeles County District Attorney\" to having her house besieged by Black Lives Matter racists and when her husband waved a gun to get them to leave, he, like the McCloskeys, was charged by the connivance of the Democrat machine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Schiff, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and other Democrats quickly pulled their endorsements from Lacey. The first black female DA was now officially a racist oppressor of black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“A lot of the cases that people shout the loudest at me about are those cases where the man who was killed had a gun or was shooting someone or harming someone,” Lacey pointed out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, like the right to rape in Suffolk County, harming and shooting someone is a right in LA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can be the first black DA of Los Angeles, the first gay mayor of South Bend, the first lesbian mayor of Seattle, the first black female police chief of Portland, Philadelphia, or Seattle, you can even be the first black lesbian mayor of Chicago, and you still won’t be radical enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can even run on a pro-crime platform backed by George Soros and it’s still not enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s because the problem isn’t racism: it’s radicalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the problem really were racism, it would be solvable. But radicalism has no stopping point. As soon as a mayor, a DA, or police chief seems to fit the bill, they’re not radical enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayors, DAs, and police chiefs who try to actually do their jobs are the first to fall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask Danielle Outlaw, who was hounded out of Portland, or Carmen Best, who was forced to resign in Seattle. Checking the right identity politics boxes doesn’t matter if you’re not a radical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no amount of radicalism is ever enough. Just ask Rachael Rollins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is full of examples of revolutions where the radicals ate each other. The story of CHOP and of Portland’s over 100 days of rioting, the guillotines and people’s committees, is the familiar one of the French and Russian revolutions, of the radicals killing anyone less radical until there’s no one left except either a tyrant or a populace who is tired of the endless violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the revolutionaries want is a society so unlivable that it even horrified a Soros DA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen they say that they want to free all the criminals, they really mean it. And when they say that they want to defund the police, they mean that too. These aren’t bold slogans for anything more moderate as their defenders among the Democrats and the media have falsely insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most obvious symptom of a political movement’s descent into extremism is its inability to describe the problem. Extremism has no language for criticizing its own extremism except by warning that it’s undermining the larger cause. And that’s been the Democrat response. The riots and the crime, they keep warning, are eating into Biden’s lead in some swing states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a compelling argument for those making it and a contemptible one to those it’s made to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only the Democrats, but even the Left, and even the radicals are losing control of a movement that is turning on them for not being radical enough. And no amount of identity politics can stop the crackup of a movement that has lost its mind and its brakes. \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8679021838341964062\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/black-mayors-and-police-chiefs-are.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8679021838341964062"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8679021838341964062"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/black-mayors-and-police-chiefs-are.html","title":"Black Mayors and Police Chiefs are Being Accused of White Supremacy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RwRDQcMXRyE\/X3PP9jRX4wI\/AAAAAAAAScM\/zlB51As3d_8b-qrIDxbS5wtmflpwgiY8wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/outlaw2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7833912903850663050"},"published":{"$t":"2020-09-15T02:07:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-09-29T22:06:46.982-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Lives Matter Led to Record Number of Mass Shootings"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XpbiO9LXPw8\/X18KccVYexI\/AAAAAAAASaQ\/uAEn7oK8orMx8ZqUhEb7mBcxzlCkg7aCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s625\/black%2Blives%2Bmatter%2Bwhite%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"468\" data-original-width=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XpbiO9LXPw8\/X18KccVYexI\/AAAAAAAASaQ\/uAEn7oK8orMx8ZqUhEb7mBcxzlCkg7aCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/black%2Blives%2Bmatter%2Bwhite%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EEven as gun violence breaks records in New York City, Chicago, and Philly, the Democrats don’t have much to say about the epidemic of shootings or their pet cause, gun control. While activist Democrat prosecutors like Attorney General Letitia James have neglected to deal with the violence and are instead targeting the NRA, they aren’t really talking about gun control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMass shootings are rarely mentioned anymore even though there are more of them than ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Washington D.C. mass shooting at a cookout last month that wounded 20 people was treated as another local crime story. And there are a lot of these local crime stories as shootings rise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City has blown past 1,000 shootings, of all kinds, individual and mass, Philly hit 1,300, and Chicago is approaching 3,000 shootings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 Democrat cities alone will soon account for some 5,000 shootings.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThese are the kinds of numbers we used to see out of Iraq. Now we see them in America.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe Gun Violence Archive recently\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GunDeaths\"\u003E tweeted\u003C\/a\u003E that it \"had never totaled more than 60 mass shootings in a single month - it has now eclipsed that number for four straight months, and September is on pace to do the same.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom 2014 to 2019, there was an average of 348 mass shootings. 2020 is far from over, but there have been 438 mass shootings, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gunviolencearchive.org\/\"\u003Eand the\u003C\/a\u003E Gun Violence Archive estimates it will hit 590.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn just the first 8 days of September, there were 21 mass shootings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd these mass shootings are inescapably tied to the Black Lives Matter violence that crippled police, wrecked public safety, and led Democrats to call for an end to cops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery full month in which Black Lives Matter riots and rallies took place has recorded more mass shootings than the first three months of the year combined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were 25 mass shootings in January and 95 mass shootings in June, the first full month of Black Lives Matter riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were a total of 70 mass shootings in the first three months of the year and a total of 260 mass shootings in the previous three months which were filled with BLM violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond the violence of the riots, which have included firebombs, shootings, stabbings, and multiple assaults on police officers, random drivers, shopkeepers, and anyone in the way, the Democrat political movement led cities to pull back police or tied up officers with the riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGang members got the message and ramped up looting and territorial battles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBetween 2008 and 2018, murder \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/7009141\/CDC-Cause-of-Death-by-Age-Group.pdf\"\u003Ewas the\u003C\/a\u003E leading cause for black men between the ages of 15 to 34 with over 55,000 dead. That’s over 10 times the numbers of US casualties in Iraq.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are not normal numbers and they’re what we don’t talk about when it comes to gun violence. Gun control activists are eager to make suburban school shootings into the face of gun violence. Gun violence doesn’t come out of suburban schools, but urban ganglands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why the Democrats aren’t talking about gun control during the worst epidemic of gun violence in years. That and the reality that gun violence is associated with their support for BLM.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECities that had fairly low levels of crime and were at the epicenter of the riots, Portland, New York City, and Austin, have achieved staggering increases in shootings and murders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Portland, where there have been over 100 days of Black Lives Matter riots, shootings \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-2020-gun-violence-year-to-date-shows-488-shooting-incidents\"\u003Eshot up\u003C\/a\u003E from 299 for all of 2019 to 488 for the year so far. In the first month of BLM protests, shootings nearly doubled from 31 in 2019 to 61. In August, the shootings nearly tripled relative to 2019.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Austin, the murder rate rose 67%. At the end of August, the city recorded 3 murders in 24 hours. A homeless woman was shot when \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/austin-police-4-shootings-sixth-street\/269-1d59b2db-8eb1-4762-b85c-2d8b42e36dc2\"\u003E60 hurricane evacuees\u003C\/a\u003E began fighting in the street and shooting each other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We know we have at least 23 rounds discharged last night,” Chief David McKichan mentioned \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kaaltv.com\/austin-minnesota-news\/witness-austin-shootings-shares-experience-\/5848099\/?cat=10226\"\u003Eat one\u003C\/a\u003E press conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn New York City, shootings rose 140% since the period roughly overlapping with BLM riots. And murders rose by over 50%. Behind those numbers are 90 murder victims. They’re part of the political price that Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Democrats paid for their support for BLM.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the first full month of Black Lives Matter rallies and riots, the number of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-daylight-shootings-double-may-to-july-year-over-year\"\u003Edaylight shootings\u003C\/a\u003E in New York City more than tripled. Daylight shootings are a mark of brazen gang violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy August, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2020\/08\/16\/two-dead-after-another-violent-weekend-in-new-york-city\"\u003E43 people\u003C\/a\u003E had been shot in 48 hours, and 3 people had been killed in one day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat leaders have responded to the wave of violence by decriminalizing it and attributing it to the effects of the pandemic and to social inequities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Gun violence is a symptom of social ills,\" Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/07\/portland-fire-commisioner-blames-cops-starting-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efalsely blamed\u003C\/a\u003E police for setting fires, insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s been an exhausting 100 days for our city. But may I remind everyone just how exhausting it is to live while Black in America. Let me remind folks that the civil rights movement lasted a lot longer than 100 days and make no mistake – today’s struggle against police violence and creeping fascism is the new civil rights movement,” she wrote, cheering 100 days of BLM terror.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExhausting is one way of putting it. July was Portland's deadliest month in three decades.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BLM riots aren’t just a struggle session or cancel culture. They’re doing a lot more than terrorizing diners or burning down stores. The BLM riots and movement are killing people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats had spent years falsely claiming that guns, rather than criminals, kill people. Now they’ve moved on to blaming gun violence on social ills that will be remedied by defunding police and shifting even more money into the same broken and corrupt welfare state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECrime, like homelessness, will just become another fact of life, if they have their way. Every increase in crime will be met with more welfare spending and less police until every major city becomes an unlivable war zone where only the poor and the foolhardy still make their home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven now the cities that have gotten behind police defunding are suffering massive violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot all that long ago, the Democrats ran on vowing to stop mass shootings. Now they don’t want to talk about them. And who can blame them? Few murderers want to confess their crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats lied about crime and the cops, and thousands of people were wounded or died.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7833912903850663050\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/black-lives-matter-led-to-record-number.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7833912903850663050"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7833912903850663050"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/black-lives-matter-led-to-record-number.html","title":"Black Lives Matter Led to Record Number of Mass Shootings"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XpbiO9LXPw8\/X18KccVYexI\/AAAAAAAASaQ\/uAEn7oK8orMx8ZqUhEb7mBcxzlCkg7aCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/black%2Blives%2Bmatter%2Bwhite%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3590639240862881395"},"published":{"$t":"2020-09-02T20:08:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-09-02T20:08:41.917-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Violent Crime More Important to Voters Than Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Real crises end with a solution. Fake crises end when they become a real crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter began as a fake crisis that used out-of-context viral video clips to falsely claim that police shootings of innocent black people were a national crisis. Black Lives Matter became a real crisis when its riots looted, burned, and beat their way across major cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/PP_2020.08.13_Voter-Attitudes_TOPLINE.pdf\"\u003E Pew poll \u003C\/a\u003Eat the end of July asked voters which issues were most important to them when deciding who to vote for the big office in 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E59% of voters said that violent crime was very important and another 27% said that it was somewhat important. Racial and ethnic equality had fallen behind with 52% of voters calling it very important and another 28% describing it as somewhat important.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E86% of voters see violent crime as a significant presidential election issue while 80% are touting Black Lives Matter. The structural difference here is bigger than that 6%. While Black Lives Matter has benefited from a non-stop media push, violent crime has been lightly covered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow concern about violent crime became the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2020\/08\/13\/important-issues-in-the-2020-election\/\"\u003Efifth most important \u003C\/a\u003Eissue for voters, slightly behind the coronavirus, would be baffling to anyone who gets their reality from the media.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UWxNis2tiyw\/X1Az-40bP-I\/AAAAAAAASYs\/bpkjqO6pQxIsbTtOXgS0fgacaOddXGtuwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1920\/black-lives-matter-fox-and-friends.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1057\" data-original-width=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UWxNis2tiyw\/X1Az-40bP-I\/AAAAAAAASYs\/bpkjqO6pQxIsbTtOXgS0fgacaOddXGtuwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/black-lives-matter-fox-and-friends.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat 86% of voters aren’t worried about crime based on what they see in the media, but because they feel personally threatened by what’s going on in their own neck of the woods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a huge difference between supporting BLM in the abstract or fearing crime personally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Pew map of voter concerns shows that the election issues are tilting away from big picture abstractions and are being dominated by concrete issues that affect voters personally. With the exception of Supreme Court appointments, the top 5 issues, the economy, health care, the pandemic, and violent crime, are about the things that personally worry Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the abstractions have fallen off the pyramid, with racial and ethnic equality coming in seventh place, economic inequality, a Democrat favorite, falling to ninth, and climate change and abortion coming in in the tenth and eleventh spots. All of this is bad news for the Dems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the DNC convention approached, the creaky messaging machine had tilted against the riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times and the Washington Post officially ended the embargo by running negative stories about white BLM activists in Seattle, Portland, and Washington D.C. And the media and Democrat officials began openly voicing concerns that the violence would hurt their chances.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The rioting has to stop,\" CNN's Don Lemon intoned, while writing \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2020\/08\/don-lemon-the-rioting-has-got-to-stop-its-showing-up-in-the-polls\/\"\u003Ea proposed speech \u003C\/a\u003Efor Biden to deliver on the air. \"As you know and I know, it's showing up in polls, it's showing up in focus groups, it is the only thing right now that's sticking. And the Democrats are stuck with it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey are indeed stuck with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, which has seen some of the worst of the violent rioting, appeared to suggest that nothing was working, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/portland-mayor-let-rioting-burn-itself-out\/\"\u003Ethat it\u003C\/a\u003E \"will ultimately burn itself out.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe people whose businesses are being burnt out may be less sanguine about the crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Democrats have no answers to offer. Even those national figures who didn’t explicitly embrace police defunding, a suicidal and unpopular political strategy, can’t push too hard against it because a sizable section of their activist base and media have been radicalized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat efforts to split the difference, limiting police defunding measures and playing numbers games, only led to more direct harassment with BLM contingents showing up at their homes at night, yelling, screaming, and intimidating elected officials. The pressure may not result in the actual elimination of the police that the hate group’s activists demand, but they ensure that the Democrats will continue trying to square the circle, split the difference, and avoid a decision.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore crucially, the Democrat donor base is also deeply divided. Rejecting BLM too sharply would alienate George Soros, whose funding is not only crucial to Democrat election efforts, but whose infrastructure makes up a vital part of the American Left, but embracing it would alienate moderate Democrat donors who want Biden to stop the chaos, not give it a great bear hug.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike Republicans, the Democrats are deeply conflicted on this issue. And the conflicts are undermining Democrat messaging and electability. The shift from BLM to violent crime is particularly significant when it affects the black voters on whose turnout Democrats depend.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only isn’t BLM effectively mobilizing black voters (though it seems to be doing a great job of radicalizing white college students and some of their blue region suburban parents) but black voters are increasingly putting violent crime ahead of BLM as an urgent issue. That reflects a national trend, but it’s particularly devastating to the Democrat strategy in this election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack urban voters are bearing the brunt of the violent crime and they’re not hearing the Dems talking about the issue dominating their neighborhoods and threatening their lives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats are caught in a trap of their own making.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’re no longer able to turn off the violence. And mildly critical media coverage won’t do it. Even if they could get some of the billionaires who have been pouring money into radical groups to turn off the spigot, there’s enough money to keep them going until November. The Democrats barely managed to stop Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee. They can’t stop national riots by their usual backroom tactics. And they’re too ideologically hagridden to use the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack urban mayors have shown the most willingness to confront the rioters and have the most political immunity for cracking down on criminals, but as long as Portland, Seattle, New York City, and other major cities are controlled by feckless white progressives, the violence will go on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the riots and crime are not only shifting attention away from BLM, but from the pandemic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople can only focus on one crisis at a time, and the violence and chaos consuming entire cities is becoming more visible than an invisible virus. If this trend continues, then the Democrats will lose both of the big issues that they expected to propel them to victory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats sowed the winds of political terror, they’ve begun to reap the whirlwind.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3590639240862881395\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/violent-crime-more-important-to-voters.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3590639240862881395"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3590639240862881395"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/violent-crime-more-important-to-voters.html","title":"Violent Crime More Important to Voters Than Black Lives Matter"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UWxNis2tiyw\/X1Az-40bP-I\/AAAAAAAASYs\/bpkjqO6pQxIsbTtOXgS0fgacaOddXGtuwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/black-lives-matter-fox-and-friends.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4186312798101556587"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-23T18:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-23T18:00:27.886-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"drugs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Cannon Hinnant, George Floyd, and Losing the War on Drugs"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The body of a junkie ex-con who had robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint was placed in a golden coffin on a horse-drawn hearse while a nation whose cities were burning watched.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECannon Hinnant was laid to rest quietly in a small funeral home across the street from a gas station. The mourners, some driving pickup trucks, parked out front and made their way through the puddles to hear his youth pastor eulogize the 5-year-old boy who had been shot in the head.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deaths of George Floyd,a 46-year-old Minneapolis black ex-con strung out on drugs, and Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old white boy from a small city in North Carolina, are both symbols.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFloyd’s death during a struggle with police led to nationwide race riots, the destruction of statues and stores, hundreds of millions in damage, severe injuries and deaths, and a political inquisition. Hinnant’s death has been ignored outside the local and conservative media.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vlF8i1AE4HM\/X0Lm8KafKBI\/AAAAAAAASXU\/S43VIIzOVMYPg2k6PddEpqb5ZgDhEOuTwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s980\/seattle%2Bis%2Bdying.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"636\" data-original-width=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vlF8i1AE4HM\/X0Lm8KafKBI\/AAAAAAAASXU\/S43VIIzOVMYPg2k6PddEpqb5ZgDhEOuTwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/seattle%2Bis%2Bdying.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe out-of-context video of Floyd dying of cardiac arrest while high on Fentanyl became evidence of police racism, not just by the white officer restraining him, but across the country. And Cannon Hinnant’s murder at the hands of a black felon while riding his bike on a grassy winding street became evidence of a racist double standard and out of control crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe truth is that Floyd and Hinnant’s deaths were symptoms of the same crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Floyd’s death, it became fashionable to speak of crime and policing as inventions of white supremacists and symptoms of white fragility. Cannon’s small head proved fragile when he was shot, but Hinnant’s father regularly invited Darius Sessoms, his killer, for meals or a beer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESessoms had been in and out of prison. The common theme was drugs and guns. Year after year, he would go in for 3 months for possession, and then\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/webapps.doc.state.nc.us\/opi\/viewoffender.do?method=view\u0026amp;offenderID=1499723\u0026amp;searchLastName=Sessoms\u0026amp;searchGender=M\u0026amp;searchDOBRange=0\u0026amp;listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults\u0026amp;listpage=1\"\u003E out again\u003C\/a\u003E, he appeared to have stolen a gun, and then \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article244911497.html\"\u003Ehe had begun\u003C\/a\u003E maintaining a house for drug activity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's a familiar story in Wilson, North Carolina, a half-black and half-white city of under 50,000 which has seen huge drug busts over the years and where \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsontimes.com\/crime\/\"\u003Ethe crime logs\u003C\/a\u003E focus on drug-related crimes by men with three names and no future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the age of drug apps, a former president who casually mentioned using cocaine, and a partnership between leftists, libertarians, and some GOPers to decriminalize drugs, focusing on the drug angle is considered politically incorrect. And yet it’s always lurking there anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one familiar with street level crime was surprised to find drugs in Floyd’s system or Sessoms’ drug charges. This is the world inhabited by police officers who patrol the streets and answer calls, knowing each time what they’ll see before they even arrive at the scene.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Defund Police movement is right in one regard. We’ve outsourced managing the collapse of our society to men willing to deal with the worst elements of it for $28,000 a year. We have, justly, spent a great deal of time talking about the psychological traumas of veterans, but very little dealing with the state of mind of the men and women fighting the war on our own streets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Defund Police movement and its allies, including top Democrats, insist that there is no crisis. Everything from the drug war to the concept of private property was invented by old white men to keep young black men down. There is no crime problem, only an enforcement problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter trying out this theory for a few months, freeing thousands of criminals, refusing to arrest or imprison new criminals, and tying the hands of police, the crime rate skyrocketed. And black elected officials, from the moderates to the radicals, have come out for law enforcement. Every poll shows solid majorities of black people want the police to stay right where they are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe drug war and its massive police presence were not invented by white racists, they were lobbied for and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/law-and-order-african-americans-stand-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edemanded by black communities\u003C\/a\u003E who wanted to end the violence. That painful lesson is being relearned at a great cost in human lives. And it’s a long way from over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter twenty years of hard work and success, too many people forgot what made us safe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe unhappy truth is that Cannon Hinnant is dead because his killer wasn’t in jail. And George Floyd is dead and a nation is on fire because he wasn’t safely tucked away in prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform didn’t do anyone any favors. Not the criminals or their victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats killed Cannon Hinnant, they killed George Floyd, and they’re killing American cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of dealing with the disaster, the Democrats continue to treat dead criminals like saints while ignoring their victims. They feed racial narratives, filling headlines with ‘white’ perpetrators and ‘black’ victims while ignoring stories like Cannon’s murder that don’t fit their racial narrative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media is pumping out a steady diet of black victims and white perpetrators. Even if the perpetrating usually seems to involve calling the police in a potentially dangerous situation. But the police forces, many of them run by or filled with minorities, aren’t oppressing black communities, they’re protecting them. Because there are \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/07\/black-lives-matter-effect-killing-black-children-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eplenty of black Cannons\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThree children are shot \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/08\/black-lives-matter-3-kids-shot-every-week-philly-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eon average\u003C\/a\u003E every week in Philly. The cops aren’t shooting them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn under a decade, criminal justice reform turned the country’s biggest cities into hellholes. The Democrat media is frantically trying to keep a lid on the biggest scandal in a generation. Even while gang members are racking up a body count that we haven’t seen before in this century, the media keeps shouting that black people are being terrorized by white cops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat must be why, in a recent Gallup poll, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/08\/81-black-people-want-more-or-same-amount-police-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E81% of black people\u003C\/a\u003E wanted more or the same amount of police. But just having the police patrol neighborhoods isn’t the answer. Arrests are meaningless unless the perpetrators are held until trial, instead of being put back on the streets. Trials have to end in serious prison time for violent offenders, gang members, and drug dealers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBail reform, drug decriminalization, and the rest of the criminal justice reform disaster must go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganized crime in America is largely controlled by gangs, some foreign and some domestic, it’s time we stopped believing the lies that they’re socially deprived oppressed youth, and started treating them like Al Qaeda, instead of a bunch of social welfare cases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has to go back to the hoary cliche of the drug war that liberals and libertarians hate so much. And the southern border has to be secured against the cartels and China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorge Floyd was high on fentanyl. The source of the deadly drug is often China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Obama hadn’t given China’s drug trade a pass while making sure Americans needed an ID to buy cough syrup, the entire Floyd case might never have happened. The more America goes after foreign drug industries, the less it needs to spend time policing Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust like Islamic terrorism, we can fight it at the source, or we can try controlling it at home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf China were shipping IEDs to America that were killing 30,000 people a year, we would have a national response. But it’s just pushing chemicals that are killing \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/heroin.net\/overdose\/us-fentanyl-death-statistics\/\"\u003E30,000 Americans\u003C\/a\u003E a year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe drug war, like the war on terror, is a two way street. Unilaterally surrendering doesn’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe gave up on the war on drugs. And the People’s Republic of China is winning the war on us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this is what the media wants to talk about because it strikes at the heart of the governance failures of their political party. Instead it wants to convince Americans to double down on the same policies that killed Cannon Hinnant, that killed George Floyd, and that are killing tens of thousands of Americans every single year with bullets, knives, and overdoses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats embraced criminals, championing their voting rights, their employment rights, and their right not to be locked up for committing crimes. They need to be held accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica can belong to the criminals or to the citizens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe’ve seen what a country that belongs to the criminals looks like. In Chicago, the city is raising bridges to keep the mobs of looters out of downtown. In Portland, armed mobs besieged a federal courthouse. In New York City, the streets are empty at night. In Minneapolis, the only security comes from private security. Everywhere in the big cities there is fear and death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe answer lies with the same old three Ps: police, prosecutors, and prisons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt begins with the simple truth that if Sessoms hadn't been living on Archers Road, Cannon Hinnant would still be alive. The justice system exists to protect children like Cannon from criminals like Sessoms. The Democrats have reversed the equation, fighting to protect criminals from their victims. America will belong to its people again when the criminals are back in prison.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4186312798101556587\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/08\/cannon-hinnant-george-floyd-and-losing.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4186312798101556587"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4186312798101556587"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/08\/cannon-hinnant-george-floyd-and-losing.html","title":"Cannon Hinnant, George Floyd, and Losing the War on Drugs"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vlF8i1AE4HM\/X0Lm8KafKBI\/AAAAAAAASXU\/S43VIIzOVMYPg2k6PddEpqb5ZgDhEOuTwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/seattle%2Bis%2Bdying.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8981352018514656331"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-10T13:59:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-10T13:59:39.753-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Texas"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Austin Voted to Defund the Police, its Murder Rate Rose 67%"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Austin City Council voted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/crime\/austin-homicide-rate-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic\/269-d68b9c51-3cd4-4cfa-af12-5eea963b3d59\"\u003Eunanimously\u003C\/a\u003E to defund the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We don't need somebody who's a sworn officer and a gun in order to be able to accomplish what the community needs done,\" Mayor Steve Adler falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustin's proposed budget targeted millions in cuts. These\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/local\/austin-council-members-want-to-defund-local-police-and-demolish-their-headquarters\/\"\u003E included\u003C\/a\u003E 100 vacant police positions, delaying the next cadet class, delaying the replacement of duty weapons, and there were proposals by some Democrats council members to shut down the police academy, cut the bomb squad budget, and even demolish the city’s downtown police headquarters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe proposed budget also includes a 3.5% tax increase.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-usSbN0YXg50\/XzGKzhgpSfI\/AAAAAAAASVU\/Jm1Is55YTPAOAkOPYnbbsgMA67RjhxVAQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s480\/austin.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"360\" data-original-width=\"480\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-usSbN0YXg50\/XzGKzhgpSfI\/AAAAAAAASVU\/Jm1Is55YTPAOAkOPYnbbsgMA67RjhxVAQCNcBGAsYHQ\/w600-h450\/austin.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoliticians limited the ability of police officers to use force against criminals and barred them from using pepper spray and tear gas against the violent mobs of Black Lives Matter rioters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Austin is number one with a bullet after its homicide rate increase passed every major city.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOvertaking more violent cities like Chicago, left behind at number two, Philly at number six, and New York at number eight, Austin had the highest percentage homicide rate increase. Like the ‘Miracle on Ice’ in the 1980 Winter Olympics, Austin is the underdog that came from behind to blow everyone away with its ability to rack up bodies even faster than vegan soy hot dogs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustin’s percentage rate increased\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/server2.kproxy.com\/servlet\/redirect.srv\/sruj\/snegw\/sklm\/p2\/article\/news\/crime\/austin-homicide-rate-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic\/269-d68b9c51-3cd4-4cfa-af12-5eea963b3d59\"\u003E 64%\u003C\/a\u003E over the year and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/server2.kproxy.com\/servlet\/redirect.srv\/sruj\/snegw\/sklm\/p2\/article\/news\/crime\/austin-homicide-rate-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic\/269-d68b9c51-3cd4-4cfa-af12-5eea963b3d59\"\u003E67%\u003C\/a\u003E in June.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt just goes to show that even an underperforming bunch of criminals can really accomplish great things when the politicians get behind them and get the cops off their backs. If you don’t believe that defunding the police works, just stop by an Austin morgue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdelaido Bernabe Urias, a 68-year-old Mexican immigrant, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/three-arrested-and-charged-in-death-of-north-austin-ice-cream-man\"\u003Epushing his\u003C\/a\u003E ice cream cart past a housing project when Marquis Davis, Jermaine Jones, and Devlon Wardy, allegedly pretended they wanted to buy ice cream from him, demanded money, and then shot the elderly man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen some Karen called the police, the dying Mexican ice cream vendor \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/crime\/austin-ice-cream-vendor-murder-arrests\/269-86244264-2e18-4a29-a646-f36839dd5bd1\"\u003Etold officers\u003C\/a\u003E that he had been shot by three black men becoming an accomplice to the system of racist policing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe perps were caught after the Austin Greater Crime Commission and the Austin Police Association, who had spoken out against police defunding, put up the reward money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Austin Justice Coalition, advocates for police defunding, didn't bother contributing their funds to catching Urias’ murderers. His life was not the kind of life that ‘matters’ to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJermaine Jones had posted a photo with a gun on his Facebook page before the murder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe police had busted Marquis Davis a few days before the murder for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but fortunately they let him go because the enlightened progressives of Austin understand that bail is racist and criminals must be freed from prison so they don’t get sick.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavis didn’t catch the Wuhan Virus in prison. Instead he may have killed someone’s grandpa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe thug was freed with an ankle monitor. Pro-crime progressives insist that an ankle monitor is just as good as locking up a criminal behind bars. Urias could not be reached for comment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mexican immigrant started selling ice cream after being laid off during the pandemic. Now the ice cream man is gone. And that’s the price we pay for a society that is kinder to criminals and crueler to their victims. We can have ice cream men or criminals on the loose, but not both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is lots of good news from Austin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only were murders up 67% in June, but justifiable homicides had gone up 200%. When you defund the police, some people won't lie down and die for the thugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobberies were up 50%, aggravated assaults were up 10%, and incest was up 100%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver the year so far, extortion is up 113%, stolen property is up 71%, prostitution is up 138%, and bribery is up 100%. How these may be interrelated is left as an exercise for the reader.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBetween the incest and the extortion, the robberies and the bribery, the stolen property and prostitution, things are great. And that’s before defunding the police has even really kicked in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustin progressives have finally made sure that the police won’t be shooting anyone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Maurice Pierce, who was shot and killed at a traffic spot ten years ago after he grabbed a knife from a police officer's belt and cut him. Pierce had been one of the suspects in Austin's infamous yogurt shop murders, in which the charred naked bodies of four teenage girls were found in a burned shop. After the latest police reform measures, Pierce would still be alive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this has caused advocates of defunding the police to rethink their position.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The City has started down the path toward ending this injustice but we have further to go and we must stay the course to redefine public safety in Austin,\" City Manager Spencer Cronk had boasted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s safe to say that public safety in Austin has been redefined. And staying the course will really redefine it. Defunding the police has helped put Austin alongside Chicago on the growth list of homicides. And while Austin is still lagging its older more murderous brother by a lot, violence is a growth industry and the hipster hellhole is showing real promise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustin's Democrat leaders have claimed that they are just giving the \"community\" what it wants. But most Austin residents are \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/news\/poll-majority-of-austin-voters-oppose-cutting-police-officers\"\u003Eopposed\u003C\/a\u003E to defunding the police and getting rid of cops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA poll by the Greater Austin Crime Commission \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/news\/poll-majority-of-austin-voters-oppose-cutting-police-officers\"\u003Efound tha\u003C\/a\u003Et 53% of city residents don't want a reduction in the number of cops. Nearly half of city residents think that Austin is on  the wrong track and only a third think it's going the right way. The right way being straight to hell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as long as they keep voting for radicals, nothing will change. Except for the worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore this year, playing a word association game with Austin would have produced answers like, “annoying hipsters\", \"vegan bakeries\", and \"obscure indie bands.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow that word association game has another answer: murder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDefund the police and the death rate will follow.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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