The thing that jumps out at you is the use of language in this piece. Thus, we get the gauzy phrase,
Notice the omission of specifics about what these "overhauls" are going to be. Maybe it's best if we don't ask.
Not to miss a beat, the article continues, "Led by Fox News..."
Fox News has zip to do with it, but is red meat to the intended audience, so gets tossed in. This is from the same bunch that will accuse those opposed to sentencing "reform" of being
"anti-intellectual."
"...conservatives have accused the protest movement, without basis, of inciting violence against police officers."
No basis
here, for example. When the BLM contingent chants, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon," what they really meant to say was, "Thank you, officers, for the risks you take." But I will concede that BLM, although it is starting to slip on this score, does more typically look to others to
say out loud the more outrageous stuff.
The piece continues, "Trump accused Black Lives Matter this week of 'looking for trouble' and suggested they were being 'catered to' by Democrats."
Now why would anyone think Democrats are catering to BLM merely because two of their candidates (including the one now leading in both
New Hampshire and
Iowa)
cow-towed when BLM shouted down their campaign speeches? One of them, Gov. Martin O'Malley, went so far as to apologize for saying, "All lives matter." Still, I have to agree that this isn't exactly catering. Groveling would be more like it.
"There are two things that are troubling," said Inimai Chettiar, director of Justice at the Brennan Center.
Well, yes, "troubling" is one word we could use when policemen are shot dead in the street, e.g., this very recent
episode among numerous others. But...........wait............Ms. Chettiar is not referring to police assassinations. Instead, as she notes,
"One, that people are saying that there is a crime wave now..."
Please note, the problem is not the
nationwide murder surge, The problem is that anyone
has been saying that there is a nationwide murder surge. More murders, well, look, stuff happens. But if these Archie Bunker-types start
noticing it, well, yes, that's the problem.
You cannot make this up.
"...and they're implying that crime is going to be going up as a permanent trajectory."
That's just fabricated. I've been paying attention to this subject (as readers might have noticed), and absolutely no one has implied that the surge in murders is "permanent."
Note also that this is used as a way to downplay the murder spike and belittle those with the temerity to bring it up.
"... which is wrong..."
Someone needs to tell me how Ms. Chettiar knows how long the spike will last. She certainly doesn't say.
"...and that second people are blaming criminal justice policies and particularly policing policies for this."
Now why would anyone think there's a relationship between police aggressiveness -- or forced passivity -- and crime? Must be more of those anti-intellectual wahoos, for example,
this one. What would the police commissioner know about crime, compared to the Brennan Center?
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