IN 1968, RICHARD NIXON SUCCESSFULLY CAMPAIGNED AS THE “LAW & ORDER” PRESIDENT. IS IT TOO LATE TO DRAFT CHIEF OF DALLAS POLICE DAVID BROWN?
Chief of Dallas Police David Brown is quickly being recognized as a man who has a lot of wisdom to express on the terrible situation his community has just faced and which other communities around the country are confronting. What I didn’t know was the personal tragedies that he has faced in his own life. His former partner was killed in action. His younger brother was killed by drug dealers. And most startlingly tragic is that his own son who suffered from bipolar disorder went on a rampage and killed a policeman and another man before being killed himself. So this is a man who has true, personal insights on what both the victims and their loved ones feel and what the family of the murderer must be going through. I can’t imagine the strength it takes for someone to carry on and offer wise leadership on a daily basis after suffering such tragedies.
And note this:
We’re asking cops to do too much in this country. We are. We just ask of us to do too much. Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental-health funding. Let the cop handle it. Not enough drug-addiction funding. Let’s give it to the cops. Here in Dallas, we got a loose-dog problem. Let’s have the cops chase loose dogs. Schools fail, give it to the cops. Seventy percent of the African American community is being raised by single women. Let’s give it to the cops to solve that as well. That’s too much to ask. Policing was never meant to solve all those problems, and I just ask for other parts of our democracy, along with the free press, to help us. . . .
Serve your communities. Don’t be a part of the problem. We’re hiring. We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in. And we’ll put you in your neighborhood, and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about.
I definitely agree that the American left is asking far too much of policemen these days to clean-up the disasters they’ve made of American cities. But “Get off that protest line and put an application in” sounds a little too reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange for my tastes. Recall that after being rendered incapable of violence by the Ludovico technique, Alex is savagely beaten by two of his former droogs, who have been transformed by socialism using more old-fashioned techniques – they’re now London constables. On the other hand, perhaps having some of their own go through police training would go far in impressing the BLM crowd just how dangerous the job of policing is, and how screwed up their narrative is.