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Accepting Crime, Abolishing Punishment
Liberals are falling into a political trap of their own devising, and they’re going to reverse decades of safety along the way
American liberalism is in a strong position to dominate cultural and political life in the United States for the near future, with Joe Biden in the White House and the Democratic Party in control of both houses of Congress. The cultural and media elites are, for now, united in their conviction that they have saved democracy and that the future is theirs. And yet, a serious challenge to this new liberal ascendancy could be coming, one similar in kind to the circumstances that knocked liberalism back on its heels in the 1960s its inability to address or mitigate an increase in crime, particularly violent crime, and arrest the decline of civic order. In their eagerness to remake the criminal-justice system, defund police, and abolish prisons, today’s liberal leaders and activists appear to have forgotten the lessons
Multnomah County DA also urges the Biden administration to take action against gun violence.
As gun violence continues to make headlines in Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler said he supports moving more Portland Police Bureau resources to gun violence response. And Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt was one of 46 prosecutors nationwide that urged the Biden administration to take action against rising gun violence.
At a regional gun violence response coordination meeting Friday morning, Feb. 5, Wheeler said he supports the deployment of a sergeant, four officers and two detectives to be on call to respond 24/7 to shootings to assist in crime scene processing.