Heather MacDonald

That having been said, I'm not going to claim that the

crime drop that is being touted by the mainstream media is completely phony.

Murders don't lie.

You can't hide the bodies.

And those are down from the George Floyd highs, but they're still way too high.

I can't necessarily speak to the red states, but I will say that the big cities are still really bleeding.

Los Angeles is bleeding there.

Los Angeles is perennially understaffed.

They are lean and mean, and they need 5,000 more cops.

The mayoral debate with Karen Bass, she's objecting to the fact that her opponent wants to hire more cops rather than hire more social workers, as if these feckless social workers have a clue.

how to stop crime.

It's a complete waste of money.

New York needs more cops.

Chicago needs more cops.

And yes, cops still feel under the gun.

They still feel underappreciated.

They're not particularly persuaded by Zohra Mondami in New York City, who occasionally sends out minor pro-police sounds

in the context of what is in fact still a worldview that views the police as the oppressor and criminals as the victims.

Well, they're going to have fewer people to police because people are leaving.

It is just incompatible with a civilized society that you can have the shoplifting that's going on