Welcome to Obama’s Legacy: Gang War Land

By Bob Owens

One of the more interesting series of conversations I had at SHOT Show last week was with a highly-placed NGO official about the chilling effect that left-wing attacks on law enforcement have had on pro-active policing.

“Bob,” he told me, “the “Ferguson effect’ is very real.”

“Good officers are leaving the job as fast as they can retire, and the only reason younger officers aren’t leaving faster is that their isn’t a clear transition from law enforcement to the normal workforce for a lot of people.”

The officers who remain are demoralized, feel betrayed and back-stabbed by the communities they’ve sworn to to protect, and not without reason. Many are no longer proactively police their communities, and refuse to do anything more than answer radio calls.

Can you blame them?

The criminal element is well aware that law enforcement is now in a defensive posture, and they’re exploiting that reality to their advantage to settle old scores and attempt to redraw territorial lines.

Welcome to Gang War Land:

The number of homicides in the country’s 50 largest cities rose nearly 17 percent last year, the greatest increase in lethal violence in a quarter century.

A Wonkblog analysis of preliminary crime data found that about 770 more …Read the Rest

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