by Robert M. Traxler

There is no crime crisis in our nation; if you mention crime statistics going, up you are accused of being a racist, sexist, homophobe. Just look at the numbers, they say, crime is going down.

Defunding the police is not defunding the police, it is “reimagining policing.” If you do not know what that means then you are too ignorant to ask. Cutting millions from more than a dozen large city police forces will cut crime and make them more responsive to the poor and minorities, and make their neighborhoods safer; how, you ask? Easy; just “reimagine” policing: decriminalize hard addictive drugs, make narcotic sales legal or misdemeanors akin to jaywalking.

Make retail theft under $950 a non-reportable crime. Take the police out of high crime areas so they witness fewer crimes, making fewer arrests, and magically you have reimagined policing and cut crime while cutting the budget. Proof positive that the progressives are wiser and better equipped to protect us than law enforcement professionals. We are seeing more victims of criminal activity, mostly poor and minorities, but we must believe crime is reduced or be called harsh names by the socialists.

I spent years teaching law enforcement courses at a community college. My favorite was a 101 course, introduction to law enforcement. Teaching the history of law enforcement, studying what worked and did not in history and learning from decades of successes and failures, provides insight into what needs to be done to protect and serve a society.

The left will tell us that having fewer police is a good thing and will cut crime; history differs, but who cares? Progressives are the smart ones who are experts on all issues. Enforcing lesser included offenses before they metastasize into larger more violent crimes, the broken windows theory of criminal justice, has worked throughout history, but apparently not today; go figure.

The midterm elections will be a referendum on the “defund the police” movement, the “reimagine policing.” Again, whatever in the hell those broad terms even mean, like many things woke, it means whatever the woke person saying it wishes it to be at the time. We need to understand that not reporting or redefining a crime does not eliminate the victims; it does not prevent the pain or hurt the victim feels, it does not heal the physical and psychological wounds of crime victims, but emboldens and enables the criminal to harm more people.

A very politically incorrect, un-woke thing to say, true, but not allowed in our reimagined society.

The good folks in the media, news and social, will start a full-court press on the “fact” that crime is going down, and that the Republicans are lying when they tell you it is not, just as the midterms near. Around one month before the election, the social media billionaires who donate tens of millions to the Democrats will ban posts that they deem lies and are not truthful when they refer to crime going up, all in the name of banning hate speech. It is an unenlightened concept, but no one has a comparable platform to question them. 

Stores should provide their own security; they are all rich oppressors of the proletariat, and the people should not fund their perceived problems with retail theft. Illegal drug use is not a police issue but a social issue, and needs to be addressed by the health care system.

f a criminal robs or assaults a victim, it is society’s fault, not the poor oppressed victim of capitalism who commits the violent crime out of his/her necessity to live, or feelings of oppression by the bourgeoisie. People primarily commit retail theft to eat and feed their families; they are victims, not criminals, and should not be incarcerated but assisted.

The government should not be concerned with retail theft ,but go after the billionaire criminals on Wall Street. Not Silicon Valley billionaires of course, as they are sufficiently woke, and not social media billionaires, as they are big donors to the progressive/socialist cause.

Yes, many corporations are liberal; just look to the “Earth First!” group, incorporated nearly 30 years ago, and hundreds of others. Always remember that we must believe the lessons of history, but only the politically correct lessons, common sense be damned.

My Opinion.