No one should have to fear for their children’s life when they tuck them into bed at night, writes BobWoodson. 'Only when we listen to the people actually affected by the rhetoric around crime and law enforcement will we be able to make real progress.'
e all worry about our children when they are out of our sight — when we first put them on the bus to school, let them walk to a friend’s house on their own, or send them to the store for a gallon of milk. But wherever they’ve been all day, we can breathe a sigh of relief at night, knowing that, for a few hours at least, they are safely tucked in their beds., that sense of security shattered on New Year’s Eve when gunfire ripped into her family’s apartment in Houston.
Ironically, as Arianna struggles to recover, a few people have suddenly become concerned with the police response time to the scene of the crime. Is anyone really surprised that after over a year of"defund the police" campaigning by irresponsible politicians and so-called activists, that response time has suffered? Police recruitment has fallen sharply in many of the most crime-plagued cities throughout the country as these slogans and attitudes take hold of public opinion.
And fewer recruits aren’t the only effect of this reckless anti-law enforcement messaging. There has been a marked rise in lethal
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