we're here now steve forbes forbes media
chairman let's talk about this crime
picture steve
um is it any wonder when you get this
situation where you have
democratic officials in major cities uh
basically
trying to stop the police from doing
their job is any wonder that you get
resignations from the police force and
hire crime and you'll get into this
incredible cycle of violence and
destruction that we seem to be in
yes in the past year the crime has risen
dramatically in the united states after
tapering down over the last
30 years before that the murder of last
year of 20
000 versus 16 000 the year before you
see it in these cities there was a
survey of 57
cities in this country where the murder
rate last year went up 37 percent on
average and so no wonder police are
resigning
and they are not being backed by their
uh
by their political leaders and you have
the mayor of chicago saying now she
wants police officers to be have to get
permission from a supervisor
to give chase to a criminal on foot we
already saw in another city what
happened when they were
police couldn't chase a car with a
gunman in it
because they had to get permission to do
that so this kind of thing just
undermines morale
and i hopefully these cities where the
voters will take matters in their own
hands
and give the police the backing because
you can't have a functioning city
without public safety period it's hard
to resist the conclusion that
these democratic leaders in many of
these cities actually want i really do
want to
literally undermine the police they're
quite happy to see the police uh
withdraw they're quite happy to see
morale
hit so hard uh this is the whole idea of
you know defunding the police
they actually want somehow they seem to
favor the criminals over the police well
that's right and you saw the hypocrisy
in new york where a mayoral candidate
says she wants to
defund the police yet she has her own
private security she's got the funds to
do it
so that kind of hypocrisy is rampant and
they want protection when it comes to
their own persons
but they're not doing it for the public
i think the public across the board is
against that
you've got a little taste of it to jerry
in texas where you have lawlessness on
the border thanks to what the biden
administration did
and in recent mayoral elections there
republicans did extremely well including
a city of 150 thousands 85 percent
hispanic
they elected a republican mayor people
want
safety and it's not just undermining the
police is it steve
you get these uh democratic elected
prosecutors in many of these
cities uh with their so-called bail
reform uh with their kind of going easy
on crime
that's it again the message seems to be
we we're more concerned about the
criminals than we are about the victims
well that's right and you saw sadly in
philadelphia
the election re-election of a d.a like
that and this was the
these da's are coming in with the
backing of
funds from of left-wing sources that
want this kind of a
lack of law enforcement but the public's
not going to stand for it jerry and i
think
the what's happening now both on the
border and these cities
totally unnecessary and the but in the
meantime though
you see it in new york and elsewhere
thousands of experienced officers
are taking early retirement or quitting
altogether
and as you say this has to be an
opportunity political opportunity for
republicans you've seen it in a couple
of places already
yeah by the way i think you're going to
see it big time next year in the
congressional elections may not show up
in the polling
but people want safety and you saw it
even
you know i mean what's puzzling to me is
that you know the 2020 election
we saw that whole defunding the police
thing a lot of democrats who who lost
blamed the defunding the police uh for
their for their loss and said this is
crazy we've got to stop
it and yet it's sort of yet this
anti-police rhetoric and action scene
still seems to go on in the democratic
party
it's a determined group or anti-police
most people support the police they want
reform where the reform is needed like
what senator jim scott has proposed
sensible reforms but they do want the
back
police to have backing but this
determined group is against it
and what is shameful is not that the
group like this would try to undermine
a public safety but that the political
leaders are too cowardly to stand up to
them
steve forbes thank you very much indeed
have a great weekend
you too thank you jerry