What three police shootings in LA tell us ... about the WaPo and "reform"

I agree with Bill that primary responsibility for a crime rests with the criminal who commits it. I also agree that primary responsibility for the sharp rise in crime much of America is experiencing rests with those who have reversed the policies that sharply reduced crime and kept it reduced for at least two decades — proactive policing and strong criminal sentencing.

The media, and certainly the Washington Post, should be held “accountable” for their role in the reversal of these policies — especially their constant efforts to demonize the police. Given growing public concern over violent crime, savvy liberal politicians have started to distance themselves a bit from the hard line BLM takes on the police. But the Washington Post, which doesn’t have to win elections, persists with its attacks on effective policing.

Here, in its search for police officers behaving badly, the Post goes all the way across the country, to Los Angeles, where it contends that three deaths raise “new questions about excessive use of force” by the police. Readers won’t be surprised by my conclusion that the three cases raise different questions than the one the Post poses.

Let’s start with the easiest case and work our way towards the most complicated one.

[These media narratives that Paul deconstructs are designed to salvage a post-George Floyd momentum toward progressive policing “reforms” that have turned into utter disasters for every community in which they have been implemented. The persistent high-crime rates over the last three years are a direct result of cashless bail, ‘decarceration,’ and the removal of all disincentives for criminals. Police are put in untenable positions as a result of this, which lead to more confrontations rather than fewer of them. We have made *everyone* more unsafe while doing nothing to resolve actual injustices, — Ed]