SEN JOHN KENNEDY: Democrats’ defund-the-police plan failed, but here they go again

As I’ve watched the protests successful Minneapolis, it seems evident to maine that America is astatine hazard of falling face-first into different disastrous anti-law-enforcement crisis.

Here’s a acold crockery of truth: There are immoderate radical successful this satellite who bask hurting different radical and taking different people’s stuff. These radical aren’t sick. They’re not confused. They’re not mixed up. It’s not that their mothers oregon fathers didn’t emotion them enough. They’re conscionable antisocial. I don’t cognize wherefore God made immoderate radical that way. If I get to Heaven, I’m going to ask.

Every nine deals with these radical differently, but successful America, we’ve chosen to prosecute brave men and women to enforce our laws by confronting antisocial radical erstwhile they perpetrate crimes. We seldom perceive astir these courageous officers and the millions of affirmative interactions they person each day. We lone perceive astir the fistful of cops who — by negligence oregon by prime — harm different radical portion enforcing the law.

The defund-the-police question seized upon a fewer atrocious examples of instrumentality enforcement to merchantability the prevarication that cops are worse than criminals. These activists believed that our state would beryllium amended disconnected if we fired each constabulary officers and replaced them with societal workers.

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Community members face national agents aft an migration raid that resulted successful detentions and followed the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good successful Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 13, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)

Prior to the decease of George Floyd, the defund-the-police question was a fringe thought that was lone fashionable among Marxist academics and soy-latte drinking, NPR-tote container carrying Karens. Fair-minded Americans knew it would beryllium insane to regenerate cops with societal workers. Murderers, thieves, cause dealers and carjackers don’t request hugs; they request jailhouse cells.

But the Karen helping of the Democratic Party saw Floyd’s decease arsenic an accidental to beforehand the defund-the-police movement. This presented Democratic officials, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, with a choice. Door #1: They could disregard the Karens and reconstruct instrumentality and order. Door #2: They could defund, disparage and demoralize each serviceman successful the authorities to appease the Karens.

Walz, Frey and galore others chose Door #2. They fto rioters question revenge connected instrumentality enforcement, stood by arsenic constabulary precincts burned, and sat successful soundlessness arsenic activists defamed the countless bully cops who kept their cities safe.

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These decisions created 1 of the worst transgression waves successful American history. Commercial burglaries accrued by 43%, carjackings accrued by 93%, and murders roseate by 44% successful the aftermath of the George Floyd riots.

The defund-the-police task backfired faster than anyone could person imagined, and Democratic mayors scrambled to undo the damage. But maintaining a beardown constabulary unit is not a airy power you tin flick connected and disconnected arsenic the woke mob demands. After years of demoralizing constabulary officers and denigrating them arsenic bigots racists, and murderers, a batch of cops didn’t privation their jobs back.

Nationwide, constabulary departments are inactive operating with an mean of 6% less officers than they did successful 2020. In Minneapolis, the constabulary unit is inactive 36% smaller than it was earlier Mr. Floyd’s death, contempt a prolonged effort to prosecute much officers.

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If anyone tin admit the deep-dish stupidity of the defund-the-police movement, it should beryllium Walz and Frey. But today, it looks similar they are acceptable to pb their Democratic friends down the aforesaid anti-law-enforcement way — with a flimsy twist.

Instead of arguing that cops are a bigger occupation than criminals, Walz and Frey person joined the Karen helping of the Democratic Party to accidental that enforcing migration laws is racist and vetting migrants is simply a signifier of White supremacy. Once again, these activists spot the chaos successful Minneapolis arsenic an accidental to usage the George Floyd playbook to get Congress to defund ICE and the Border Patrol.

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Prior to the decease of George Floyd, the defund-the-police question was a fringe thought that was lone fashionable among Marxist academics and soy-latte drinking, NPR-tote container carrying Karens.

But rioters bash not get to dictate which laws the national authorities enforces, which amerciable immigrants it deports, oregon which types of fraud it investigates. The national government, empowered by voters, has the close to marque those decisions nether the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, and it is amerciable for states to obstruct morganatic national instrumentality enforcement.

I recognize that Walz, Frey and their Democratic colleagues indispensable travel their hearts. I’m conscionable asking them to instrumentality their brains with them.

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It was weapons-grade anserine to defund the constabulary successful 2020. It is conscionable arsenic dumb to defund ICE today. From terrorists entering the state to cartels smuggling radical and drugs into our communities, President Joe Biden’s open-border policies were a catastrophe for the information and prosperity of the United States. President Trump whitethorn person made it look casual to unafraid the border, but it wasn’t. ICE and Border Patrol worked hard from time 1 to reconstruct bid astatine the border.

No 1 wants to spot unit successful our streets, but we person got to larn the lessons of 2020 and admit that bully instrumentality enforcement is the solution, not the problem.    

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