Back the Blue, Do the Good

Well, he went there. “He” being none other than the irritant-in-chief Gov. Gavin Newsom - the schmarmy beta-male who presides over the single greatest waste of natural resources and abuse of humanity called the State of California. 

Newsom’s press office posited on X that the State of Alabama has a higher crime rate than California. 

Using his stern look (you know, the one that says, “I’m trying to be a tough guy, but I don’t know how, so I’m overplaying it because I’m a drama queen”) Newsom pretended that California is tough on crime in the same way that Alejandro Mayorkas pretended the border was secure as millions streamed across it. 

Katherine Robertson, Alabama’s deputy attorney general and current candidate for attorney general, responded immediately: 

Crime rates in Alabama are high in democrat-led cities which have a difficult time retaining and recruiting LEOs. Officers don’t want to work in the most dangerous areas of our state when they question whether city leadership will have their backs.

There you have it. Democrat-run cities. Democrat-run states. Law enforcement outnumbered. Crime through the roof. But hey ... Trump bad! 

The war of words is the left insisting that Donald Trump is a tyrant for enforcing the laws and making our nation’s capital safer by deploying federal law enforcement and National Guard troops. They conveniently forget that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) deployed the Guard to secure crime-ridden New York City subways. Since the surge of federal assistance in Washington, D.C., we have seen a dramatic drop in crime. Liberals want the world to believe they are on the winning side of the crime issue. The world knows otherwise. 

There was a time when zero tolerance was against those committing crimes, not those pointing out the crime. But in liberal bastions around this country, we have seen a disturbing shift in the dynamic – a trend toward victimizing the victims, polarizing the police, and mollycoddling criminals. 

What is it about liberals that makes them averse to law enforcement? I’m sure that it’s not ALL liberals, yet I don’t know of any conservatives averse to law enforcement. The liberal cry to “defund the police” is rooted in the outright lie that having fewer police officers on the beat means our society will be more fair and equitable, or less racist. Common sense tells us that if you don’t have the men and women of the thin blue line who are called, trained and equipped to protect and defend, the result is anarchy, grief, suffering. 

The very essence of what it means to be a criminal is that criminals don’t obey laws. The laws require actual enforcement. What stops bad guys from doing bad things is good guys willing to do good things. That’s not hyperbole, that’s just common sense. 

One of the core functions of governance is to provide security to citizens. But in blue cities, that’s hit or miss. Even in red states Democrat-run cities push policies that create rising crime rates. 

Chicago is perhaps the prime example of how to screw up a beautiful community – the Windy City, City of the Big Shoulders. Despite violent crime statistics that make Baghdad and Mexico City look like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Chicago leaders are determined to tell Trump to stay out. Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson, (who has never led anything in his life) was joined by the penultimate blowhard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, in saying that Trump’s efforts to stop crime are unwelcome in Chicago. 

Yet Chicago, like many bastions of liberal governance, is losing population as its citizens flee high taxes, corruption, poor schools, and unsafe streets. The Chicago police force is severely depleted. You would hope that Pritzker and Johnson would form a plan to bring improvements. Perhaps adding more law enforcement with ability to apprehend, arrest, and detain criminals on the streets of one of America’s great cities. But no, that’s not the liberal way. 

Not so long ago Chicago’s police-skeptical mayor, with the help of the governor’s office, deployed so-called “peacekeepers” into Chicago’s streets wearing yellow vests. Their function was to provide “essential assistance in de-escalation, conflict resolution, and crisis support.” Vest wearing do-gooders in a crime-ridden city of 2.6 million. That should do it! 

Said no one. Ever. One of those peacekeepers was actually arrested for robbing and beating a man while he was wearing his yellow peacekeeper vest! 

Since the inception of this great nation, we have always had the ability to put good law enforcement officers on the streets of our cities and towns. It is an honorable and much-needed profession. People inclined to commit crimes are not likely to respond favorably to kind words or sensitivity training. Criminals need to know that the true blue is able to back up their words with actions. The TRUE blue – not some fake rendition of community action.

If the men and women in law enforcement need backup, we should send it. It should never be about making the streets safer for criminals. The only good answer is to ensure a safe, secure quality of life for law-abiding, hard-working, taxpaying citizens.

This is also not a party politics issue. Blue states, red states – who cares? Victims of crime don’t want your politics. They want to live free from those who seek to do them harm.

If we are going to be a strong nation, then we cannot punish the good or vilify the police. It doesn’t work that way. That’s a formula for anarchy.

Back the blue, and do the good.