we post it joining us now with reaction
former detroit police chief
and the man who's rumored to be
challenging the appalling governor
of michigan gretchen whitman next year
james craig
it's great to see you tonight um first
your
your general reaction to what um
biden laid out this week and what i just
had to say about it
you know i got to tell you steve nothing
new
nothing profound you know conveniently
a lot of the issues that are left out
and i've seen this
by so many they leave out the fact that
criminals are emboldened you talked
about bail reform
it's a miserable failure we talk about
the assault on the men and women who
serve
look at what happened in new york we're
talking about
ending qualified immunity so is it a
surprise that 75 percent
of the men and women are retiring or
resigning
from new york but yet you talk about in
this
grandiose plan that we're going to hire
more police and we're going to pay
overtime
really so how do you plan to do that
and then you say it's bipartisan you've
talked to
i don't know who they didn't talk to me
and i would have told them i said first
of all we got to start supporting
the men and women who do the tough job
they don't do it
and so you think by saying we got but
but here's the
the real interesting part and it's it's
a contradiction
so to hire these new police officers has
to focus on community policing
look i'm a proponent of community
policing
uh it works building relationships
that's why detroit didn't burn last year
but when we look at places like new york
and los angeles
where they have not so much los angeles
but in new york
they've ended proactive policing
so i know it's crazy
look i can talk about this for probably
an hour on your show steve
i have so much to say i know my time is
limited
but it's ridiculous
it's just surface and
most of the surface that's exactly right
it's it's not we going to
to the root you want to talk about
social service programs i'm all for that
you don't defund the police and i get
that the moderate democrats are now
saying
we don't want to defund but what they're
not backing off of steve
is ending qualified immunity do you know
what ending qualified immunity does
it's in effect dismantling
defunding the police it's just that
simple
can i just ask you about one specific
aspect of this that struck me this week
the
contrast biden when he's going on about
guns as i said is like making the whole
thing about guns pretty much
he specifically within that was talking
as they often do about assault weapons
assault weapons ban and so on
i was interested in the same week eric
adams who looks like he's going to be
the next
mayor of new york democrat of course he
explicitly called that out and said
it's not about assault weapons the
problem is handguns and that the
everyday use of handguns
in shootings with criminals and that's
what we should be talking about not
assault weapons
what's your thought on that gun problem
in america
what we have is a criminal problem look
you've said it i'm going to say it again
criminals are emboldened bail reform is
a miserable failure
and and so criminals don't follow the
law
they're going to get guns so we what do
we want to focus on
getting guns from law abiding as
citizens years ago when
president obama was president i made a
statement
that i believe based on my years of
experience as a practitioner 44 years
that law-abiding citizens who are armed
can have an
impact on reducing violent crime i
believe that
and i still believe that to this day
it's not about
guns it's about criminals who have guns
and they don't get the guns literally
that's the bottom line steve exactly
well listen james i'm really glad that
you could come on tonight
um i mean you're right we could talk i'd
love to listen to you for an hour we
don't have an hour maybe
maybe we can talk about it again because
you know this this issue matters so much
to people
in their everyday lives and you've
you've got that experience and we really
appreciate
you sharing with us tonight james craig
thank you so much
thank you steve i appreciate you hey
sean hannity here hey
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