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The national leaders of the “Defund the Police” movement are in my hometown of Chicago for the Democratic National Convention this week. As a resident of Chicago’s South Side, I saw firsthand the impact of this strongly ideological movement in my neighborhood — the very neighborhood these politicians claimed to be helping.
Crime soared. Innocent civilians lost their lives at the hands of increasingly brazen criminals. Robberies with violence increased. Mobs stormed the streets. Carjackings no longer made the news. And so on.
Police officers felt the negative impact and some brave officers persisted in their police work despite the increased risk to their safety. The last businesses in the area went under. Public schools remain factories of lamentable failures.
And we got nothing in return.
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Where are the social workers these politicians wrote about in the New York Times who would magically reduce violence in neighborhoods like mine?
There has been no reckoning for these politicians who paid no price for their dangerous ideas that led to an increase in deaths among black people. Now, I just learned from a local newspaper that the DNC is allocating $75 million in federal security funds for the protection of its politicians during the convention. Most of those funds will go to the Chicago Police Department.
Let’s talk about blatant hypocrisy. For years, we’ve seen politicians in favor of defunding the police, like Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., spend tens of thousands of dollars on private security for themselves. Vice President Kamala Harris supported the movement. Why security for them and not for us, the people? Why do we, the people, have to pay for their security while they, the politicians, weaken our security? How did we get so entangled?
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What makes this even more hypocritical is that the Democratic Party is the party of equity. For the past decade, they have preached equity (equality of outcome between races) as a primary social good. Where is the equity in them, the political elite, receiving security protections while we, the working class, receive empty words along with violence that spills blood on concrete?
These same elites tell us that words matter. I agree. Their words lead to destructive actions in my community and what makes them even more hypocritical is that they claim they are saying those words under the pretense of helping us.
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None of these people will make the trip from the United Center to my block to visit the $40 million Center for Leadership and Economics I’m building. They are more interested in dangerous slogans that give them political power than in doing the enormously difficult work of transforming a population destroyed by post-60s liberalism. The Defund the Police movement was just a continuation of that destruction.
The time has come for us to stop believing in the false promises of these politicians and start building our future. Hope lies in the people and not in the politicians.
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