Letter to the Editor: In Response to Call to ‘Uncuff’ Police

In a latest editorial, Chronicle Writer Chad Taylor means that the answer for safer communities is to “uncuff” the police.

So Mr. Taylor implies that our streets could be a lot safer if solely we’d make the police much less accountable.

Critically?

I agree that ignoring the smaller crimes and “defunding” the police are unhealthy concepts. We truly know what works in policing. Within the Nineteen Nineties, “group policing” was the coverage of the Clinton Administration. It funded many extra officers, however they had been much less militarized officers who patrolled communities usually on foot.

The target was to construct belief and familiarity with the group. It labored.

Success for a militarized police pressure is the variety of arrests made. The extra the higher. With group policing, success is measured by a low crime charge and a low arrest charge.

Whereas we’re with regards to public security, let us take a look at the file of right-wing Republicans.

First, we might look at the evil, outrageous lack of response by the Trump Administration to the COVID-19 pandemic: downplaying the seriousness of the virus, spreading lethal misinformation and dismissing sound public security measures costing tens of hundreds of American lives.

Many family of those that died mentioned that their family members’ “solely pre-existing situation was believing Donald Trump.”

Second, we might look at the right-wing’s denial of local weather change. Local weather change is already having a critical impression on public security and lack of life and property. That may solely catastrophically enhance sooner or later. All 50 Republicans within the U.S. Senate stood in opposition to President Biden’s Construct Again Higher invoice that would offer a major downpayment for combating local weather change.

Third, I believe Mr. Taylor could be hard-pressed to discover a police chief of any main American metropolis who would inform him that the tsunami of weapons that has flooded their cities over the previous 30 years has made their streets safer or their jobs simpler.

But the Republican Get together heels to the command of gun producers and the NRA each time even a modest proposal is made to limit gun availability or entry.

With regards to public security, the right-wing Republican file is an abject catastrophe.

Marty Ansley

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