Anarchy: Coming Soon to a City Near You?

For weeks, the mainstream media has been hammering home the idea that Americans should be afraid to vote for Donald Trump — but in reality Americans should be afraid not to vote for Donald Trump. Americans should be afraid because any business in any city could be the next one in flames because a police officer did his job.

Hillary Clinton’s go-to tear down of Trump is the line “America never stopped being great.” It was pretty much the theme of the Democratic National Convention. And in many ways, that is true. America is great. But it won’t be for long if President Obama’s reckless policies are allowed to linger behind him for another four years.

We can’t ask officers to serve us with courage and selflessness and then not serve them back.

When Trump says we have to “make America great again,” it means we have to put a stop to the Democratic policies that are making America worse — the ones that have run down Milwaukee for the last 108 years, Chicago for the last 85, and Baltimore for the last 50.

In his speech on Monday, Trump made it clear that he’ll protect the police in our cities and the law-abiding African-Americans whose lives are often ruined by the erosion of law and order. He was right when he said, “The war on our police must end, and it must end now.”

Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein —  none of them can stop American cities from burning because they all think the police are the problem. Trump alone understands that the police are the solution.

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Consider what just happened in an American city.

A black cop who, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “no citizen has ever filed a complaint against,” justly shot a criminal who was pointing a gun at him, and riots broke out. People tweeted that he needed to be killed — “shoot him right in the head,” one post read, according to the MJS, which also reported that they were posting the officer’s name and home address. When a man’s life is in turmoil because he did his job, it’s time to end the policies and rhetoric that do nothing but enable anarchy.

Street cops aren’t government bureaucrats. They’re trusted to think, react, and make split-second decisions on their own. They’re trusted to use their own judgment based on often incomplete and ambiguous information. That’s why liberal politicians can’t even mask their distaste for the work our officers do. It’s why cops who were killed in the line of duty were shamefully booed at the DNC, and it’s why Hillary Clinton doesn’t even want the Fraternal Order of Police endorsement.

If progressives controlled the world, policing would look like this:

The officer is eye-to-eye with a perp, so he orders the perp to raise his hands. Instead, the perp reaches in his pocket. The officer senses that he should draw his weapon, so he thinks back on what he learned at the Progressive Police Academy: First, fill out a form 315G — the Officer Weapon Draw Request form. If the form is approved by the officer’s supervisor, then it is put before a committee of conflict resolution experts. These experts will be able to analyze the situation using the cutting edge crisis-situation theories they learned in Ivy League Ph.D. programs.

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The Conflict Resolution Committee will discuss the matter, and then send its recommendation to the Department of Justice, which will make the final determination of whether to approve the officer’s 315G request. Of course, there’s a backlog, so allow 90 days for processing.

Sorry, but it can never be that way. The ambiguity can’t be removed from law enforcement. All you can do is give officers the best possible training. Unfortunately, mistakes are sometimes made. Not as often as the media would have you believe — but they do happen. And it’s right that our officers should face the consequences of those mistakes. It comes with the job, and they understand that.

But to ask them to face horrible, life-altering consequences for a job well done is unacceptable. We can’t ask officers to serve us with courage and selflessness and then not serve them back.

After the tragedies in Dallas and Baton Rouge, the charges against police in Baltimore, and now the villification of a Milwaukee cop who did no wrong, no American should be willing to cast a vote for a candidate who refuses to protect and serve the police officers who would never hesitate to protect and serve them.