A US Cop’s View of the Federal Takeover of the Police. By Maurice Richards, former chief of the Martinsburg Police Department in West Virginia.
Local control of the police is vital to the preservation of American democracy. Police officers and sheriff’s deputies swear an oath not only to serve and protect their communities but also to uphold the U.S. Constitution. … Leftist elites detest these safeguards of liberty. …
A central feature of any totalitarian regime — Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China — is a national police force under total control of the central government. Totalitarians nationalize the police not to control crime, but to control their citizens. …
The left’s scheme to nationalize the police:
The rampant lawlessness, violence, and chaos that has engulfed our cities since the summer of 2020 directly results from their scheme. They want to create dysfunctional local police departments as a pretext to nationalize all law enforcement.
Policing in every major city is in crisis — the rule of law has collapsed, people are not safe, and the war on cops is escalating. …
The leftist elites’ pro-criminal, anti-victim, and anti-police policies have undermined the rule of law and unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence and murder. In addition to shootings and homicides, organized robberies and lootings of large stores have spread from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Minneapolis and Chicago and even into the suburbs. All are jurisdictions dominated by Democrats, controlled by radical leftist prosecutors, and patrolled by police departments that have virtually abandoned proactive law enforcement.
It’s got much worse since 2014, when BLM started
As cities disintegrate into chaos, righteous anger from average Americans has Democratic politicians running for cover. Desperate to avoid voter retribution, some mayors are feigning genuine concern by “refunding” the same police departments they have vilified and dismantled in collaboration with Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists since 2020. …
Democrats, working with Black Lives Matter and the corporate left-wing media, have undermined community trust in the police by perpetuating the big lie of “systemic police racism.” Delegitimizing the police has made it almost impossible to build community partnerships.
Demonizing the police as racist oppressors and murderers also stirs up hate, putting a target on the back of every cop in America. In 2021, 73 police officers were “feloniously killed,” 346 were shot, and ambush shootings of police increased by 115 percent—the deadliest year on record. …
Police morale has been crushed. Thousands of veteran officers have retired early or quit, and recruiting enough new officers has proven impossible. Lacking support from political leaders and community members, officers have pulled back from proactive policing. …
The infestation of George Soros-funded state’s attorneys in big-city jurisdictions has sabotaged crime-fighting and justice. Well financed by the anti-American, globalist billionaire, these rogue prosecutors in jurisdictions such as Los Angeles County, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Cook County, Illinois, “reimagine” the criminal justice system by dropping thousands of felony cases, failing to charge violent criminals, refusing to prosecute many categories of crime, and letting dangerous offenders out of jail.
The Soros plan is extremely effective in dismantling the rule of law. Hard-left prosecutors simply nullify the hard work of police officers who arrest dangerous criminals by refusing to indict them and putting them back on the street. …
So, here’s where we stand now:
In education, leftists almost completely control our universities. Public schools indoctrinate children with state-sanctioned racism and gender-perverting ideology.
The ruling class media have become the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and leftist elites. Their primary functions are to perpetuate the myth of systemic racism, instigate racial conflict and hatred, delegitimize the United States and its founding principles, and demoralize patriots.
The traditional nuclear family has been decimated. Forty percent of all children are now born into families without a father in the home, including 70 percent of blacks, 52 percent of Hispanics, and 28 percent of whites. Children’s innocence is being corrupted through perverse sexualization in school curricula, the Internet, and popular culture. Hollywood and mass entertainment are almost exclusively leftist. Even professional sports are under leftist control.
The Democratic Party has been captured by the radical Left. The FBI and U.S. military are increasingly radicalized. In one of his first acts, Joe Biden ordered all federal employees to undergo racial indoctrination programs.
The Big Tech oligarchy censors and suppresses all speech, news, and information that does not serve the interest of the ruling elite. Corporate America has funneled millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter Marxists and coerces employees to undergo race-based reeducation.
The only two remaining cultural institutions not yet totally compromised are religion, which is being rapidly infiltrated, and law enforcement, which is hanging by a thread.
Who is responsible for the policing problems:
Not only did Barack Obama do more to divide Americans by race than any president in our lifetimes, he was also the most anti-police president in history.
Obama’s self-righteous anti-police rhetoric and bogus claims of systemic racism fueled hatred of the police and prepared the groundwork for the war on cops. He legitimized Black Lives Matter in the public consciousness — excusing their mob violence and inviting BLM leaders to the White House, even though they had regularly chanted for the murders of police officers. Race-based demonization and anti-police propaganda has only accelerated with Joe Biden in office, even as Biden has made a show of walking back the “defund the police” rhetoric.
The fact is, Obama tore down law enforcement from the outside and subverted it from the inside. He poisoned the way the American public saw the police and the way police departments saw themselves. …
The false belief of the entire implicit bias project is that racism is an unconscious psychological phenomenon in all white people, fostered by white supremacy, and manifests in every human interaction. This is also the central tenet of critical race theory. Both maintain that all white people are racist — regardless of their behavior. So it’s hardly surprising that implicit bias training has paved the way for the poison of CRT indoctrination in federal agencies and police departments. …
Implicit bias training combined with the myth of systemic police racism are antithetical to the true purpose of the police. When a police department embraces the lie, its mission is subverted.
How can officers be motivated and confident in serving their communities and making a difference if they simultaneously believe that they are unconscious racists? Or worse, with CRT indoctrination, if they believe their department serves the interests of systemic racism and white supremacy? They can’t. …
The media highlighted videos of police chiefs, high-ranking police supervisors, and mayors marching, kneeling, and chanting with Black Lives Matter Marxists. Normal Americans and rank-and-file cops were dismayed. How could police leaders publicly show support — literally bending the knee in some cases — for a radical movement that believes in the abolition of police and prisons, openly advocates the murder of police officers, and worships cop killers? …
If you believe that the police are systemically racist, then you no longer believe that the police are the good guys. …
Where next:
While Democrats are continually working to undermine policing from within, they are also implementing their plans to “reimagine” — read: dismantle — policing. Joe Biden in June and again in February announced his gun violence prevention plan. Central to the reimaging scheme is the concept that “gun violence is a public health crisis.”
The “public health” response to violence dismisses the central role of the police, substituting cops with social workers. The idea is to deemphasize and eliminate traditional law enforcement. Keeping criminals out of jail is the new priority — working with “at-risk” individuals (drug dealers, gang members, and ex-convicts) seeking “conflict resolution.” Violence is “reimagined” as a disease for which an individual cannot be held personally responsible. Instead of telling these young men that they are expected to conform to rules of civilized society, obey the law, or be held accountable, the new message is “it’s not your fault.” …
We already have a pretty good idea of what the elites will do if they can convert 700,000 sworn police officers and sheriff’s deputies into a de facto or bona fide federal police force. The partisan manner in which the Justice Department has responded to the January 6 protest compared to six months of infinitely more destructive 2020 riots says it all.
I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but ex-felons overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
“Defund the police” really meant defunding the local police, so the Federal Government could take over funding them — and the local police would not longer be beholden to the local people. It really means “nationalize the police.”
