There was a time – as an immature collegian – the idea of no police officers was appealing. I did get better, but still recognize a cultural war when I see it. Back then, the radical left proclaimed violence was a means to peace and equality. Today, the radical left proclaims violence is a means to undermine western traditions that inspired the American Dream. To this end, Black Lives Matter (BLM) convinced the Minneapolis city council to seek social justice by de-funding and disbanding police departments.
Rasmussen reports this absurd idea is not supported by most Americans (72%). Even Joe Biden rejects the idea – DUH – because a nation of laws requires entities to enforce those laws. Democrats may tout their social justice credentials by calling President Trump an oppressive racist, but they know social justice requires a legal remedy: laws that ensure the next George Floyd is not deprived of life without due process of law or subject to cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Republicans agree with Democrats that the video is clear evidence of a white police officer acting as judge and executioner of a black suspect, but don’t agree the video is clear evidence of “systemic racism” in every police precinct. Because America is a democracy with a moral majority that includes law-abiding black and Latino voters, any change to policing in America will be bipartisan and multiracial (they care about property and neighborhoods).
Politicians know public sentiment is fleeting. Two weeks after the George Floyd video, white support for police is 61% (source: USA Today) and BLM is 45% (source: CIVIQS). A majority of all Americans still support the police (source: Gallup). Right now, the vast majority of voters hate Chauvin. But, when 75% of the US has never been arrested and 95% never been to jail (source: DOJ), will that law-abiding majority throw the baby out with bath water?
To be sure, there are racist cops, but FBI data makes it hard to say identity bias exists for sure. The following table prorates the four major race’s share of 2019 FBI records.
If there is bias against non-whites, why aren’t Asians affected? Is racial bias, or gun possession, behind the high number of black gun crimes? Does the white share of arrests really suggest white privilege? Will 86.6% of the population (non-black) accept No Police to make 13.4% of the population (black) feel safer?
The BLM logic has holes. They insist the No Police plan would have prevented 235 blacks from being fatally shot by police in 2019. However, would the No Police plan also have prevented 5,218 black-on-black homicides in 2019? It is one thing to be outraged by imperfect policing, and quite another to insist on no police. There are prominent blacks, such as Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who reject BLM as a radicalized anti-civilization movement that won’t make black lives better.
Thankfully, there’s a moral majority in America that truly believes in truth, justice and the American way. Their truth is a video of George Floyd’s wrongful death. Their justice is the right to life is unalienable. Their American way is to redress the government to enact color-blind policing – not destroy another’s property. There should be change. Just leave the anarchy to Venezuela.