People keep talking about ‘police defunding’. And Mamdani’s rise has rebooted that conversation. But the police have two basic functions. They’re not likely to show up in time to save the victim from the attack, but they can prevent the attack or the next one.
1. Deterrent
2. Arrest
The former was dismantled by the BLM era. Very few criminals are afraid the police will hurt them, shoot them or significantly inconvenience them. The latter became meaningless when bail was eliminated and diversion was introduced.
Much like the Biden ‘open borders’ policy turned the border patrol into coyotes, ‘criminal justice reform’ turned the cops into the escorts for a revolving door criminal justice system in which hardly any criminal gets locked up anymore.
As Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago recently argued after a woman was set on fire on a train, “We can’t incarcerate our way out of violence… it’s racist.”
(The 90s proved otherwise.)
Anyway here’s a typical case out of San Francisco.
A homeless drug addict with a long rap sheet is accused of beating a woman to death just months after a judge sent him into a diversion program for another violent crime, police sources and court records show.
Despite “life-saving efforts by first responders and medical personnel,” the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a statement from SFPD.
Court records reviewed by The California Post reveal Allen was enrolled in a diversion program, despite prior arrests for second-degree robbery, battery, assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting injury on an elder or dependent adult, and possession of burglary tools and drug paraphernalia.
California’s diversion programs allow judges to steer defendants, often those with mental health or substance-use disorders, away from jail and into treatment — charges can then be paused or dismissed if the offender successfully completes the program.
The perp here is white so there’s no point in even pretending that this is about the bogeyman of ‘systemic racism’.
Allen had committed ‘assault with a deadly weapon’ and ‘inflicting injury on an elder or dependent adult’ and the system still gave him a pass until he killed someone. And don’t worry, there’ll be taxpayer lawyers out there making sure that the system gives him another pass by claiming that he was a victim of society.
The police are useless in cases like this unless some hero cop pulls the trigger. We’re back in the worst days of the 70s and all the cops can do is clean up the crime scene. The problem here rests with a system infested with judges, DAs and other personnel who have been infected with the ideology of criminal justice reform which says that there are no bad people (except Republicans) just people who have been victimized by class and race. This is why we’re in a wave of nightmarish violence.
