Even so, Trump is more right than his critics on the major issues. Heather MacDonald has this article in the WSJ. She quotes the usual suspects spewing the usual garbage, such as a historian reciting the very old and very wrong line that "the term law and order" is "racially tinged." The fact that the anti-law enforcement side chooses to view "law and order" through a tinted glass does not tinge the object itself.
As over-the-top as Trump can be at times, his opponent and his critics comparing him to the likes of Adolf Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan are even more so. See also this article by William McGurn, also in the WSJ. MacDonald offers this explanation:
Why this frenzied effort to demonize Mr. Trump for addressing the heightened violence in inner cities? Because the Republican nominee has also correctly identified its cause: the false "narrative of cops as a racist force in our society," as he put it in Wisconsin.
Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement burst onto the national scene in 2014, following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., violent crime has surged in urban areas. In America's largest 56 cities, homicides rose 17% last year, the largest one-year increase in more than two decades. In Washington, D.C., homicides jumped 54%; in Milwaukee, 73%; in Cleveland, 90%.The reason is a drop-off in the proactive policing that activists and academics denounce as racist. While cops continue to rush to 911 calls in minority neighborhoods, they are making fewer pedestrian stops and engaging in less public-order enforcement. Backing off such activity is presumably what Black Lives Matter supporters, including President Obama, want.
Yet the victims of the resulting crime surge are almost exclusively black; whites have largely been unaffected. In Baltimore, 45 people were killed in July 2015, 43 of them black. In Chicago, 2,460 blacks were shot last year, lethally or non-lethally, according to the city's police department. That's nearly seven a day. Seventy-eight white residents were shot in 2015, though the white share of the Chicago population is about the same as the black share. Blacks in Chicago were 18 times more likely to be killed last year than whites, up from eight times more likely in 2005.
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Strangely, it is Mr. Obama and Black Lives Matter sympathizers who have turned their eyes from the rising black victimization. FBI Director James Comey warned last October that the "chill wind blowing through American law enforcement" was leading to a "huge increase" in urban homicides and shootings. Mr. Obama promptly accused him of "cherry-picking data" and having a "political agenda."
Note: I have modified the post to remove a distracting collateral issue and deleted a comment that related to the deleted text.
I have little doubt that Trump would be an improvement over the current administration when it comes to law and order. He would most assuredly support law enforcement over the BLM movement. I also believe that HRC would be an improvement vs. Obama, at least in terms of the anti-cop rhetoric that his administration has fostered.
But Trump is still a highly flawed presidential candidate. And whatever he would do to support law and order is, IMO, significantly outweighed by his multiple character and personality defects.