Can we agree that though police and the criminal-justice system are imperfect, the alternative to a government monopoly on keeping law and order — armed chaos and disorder — is far worse?
Apparently not on the extremes of the right and left that dominate the political debate. The pragmatic middle makes more sense — but will pols heed its message?
During COVID, when everything fell apart, it was the left that first ceded the public sphere to lawlessness. The May 2020 murder of George Floyd by police was horrific — and public protest (though it violated COVID guidelines) was justified.
But riots, vandalism, property theft and the wholesale takeover of urban public spaces, from Minneapolis to Seattle — including New York’s City Hall Park, commandeered by the “Defund” movement — were not.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
This piece originally appeared in New York Post