{"id":36287,"date":"2020-06-19T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=36287"},"modified":"2020-06-23T00:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T04:31:58","slug":"reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform Police: Recommit to Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/police-reform-refocus-law-enforcement-bolster-community-foundations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36288 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HCNRO-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HCNRO-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HCNRO-1000x955.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HCNRO-768x734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HCNRO-700x669.jpg 700w, https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HCNRO.jpg 1432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Defunding the police is just not an option.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/police-reform-refocus-law-enforcement-bolster-community-foundations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essay<\/a><\/strong> published by National Review, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/project-21\/\">Project 21<\/a><\/strong> Co-Chairman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/staff\/horace-cooper\/\">Horace Cooper<\/a><\/strong> and former Justice Department official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/our-faculty\/faculty-profiles\/john-yoo\/\">John Yoo<\/a> call out the craziness of the left\u2019s demand that governments actually take money away from police departments as a method of criminal justice reform. They summarily rule out this notion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reducing the financial support of our nation\u2019s police departments is a recipe for elevated crime and lack of safety in our communities, particularly those of minorities and the working class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We could not imagine changes that would produce worse unintended consequences than shutting down or severely cutting back police departments. One of the few success stories in our cities has been the stunning drop in crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Horace and Yoo consider other ideas that have thus far been suggested by liberals at the federal level to be \u201cstale,\u201d \u201crepackaged\u201d and even constitutionally questionable considering that police powers are largely reserved for the states under the terms of the 10th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Horace and Yoo have found the \u201copportunity to propose a truly radical program to address our failing inner cities.\u201d A lot of that starts with pushing back against the Great Society welfare programs that have devastated black communities in particular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/project-21-blueprint-for-a-better-deal-for-black-america\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30271\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blueprint-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America\" width=\"364\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blueprint-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blueprint.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a>And many of the ideas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/police-reform-refocus-law-enforcement-bolster-community-foundations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they suggest<\/a> can also be found in Project 21&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/project-21-blueprint-for-a-better-deal-for-black-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cBlueprint for a Better Deal for Black America\u201d<\/a><\/strong> that was published in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Among Horace&#8217;s and Yoo\u2019s suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c[C]onservatives should push to increase police budgets.\u201d We simply cannot go back to the crime-plagued cities of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t turn cops into tax collectors. \u201cDuring the last recession, state and local government embarked on an ill-fated strategy to increase the number and amount of fines and fees imposed on our citizens for everything from minor traffic infractions to municipal-code violations\u2026 [T]his action has generated a significant level of animus against law enforcement by minorities and the working class (groups that typically bear the brunt of these fines and fees)\u2026 Revenue raising should be returned to the state- and local-government bureaucrats, freeing officers to stay focused on traditional crime fighting \u2014 activities that all Americans can support.\u201d This would also decrease the chance that \u201cminor infractions can escalate into major altercations\u201d like in the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-49399302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Garner<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Police unions should be reformed. \u201cThe left\u2019s critiques of police unions mirror those by conservatives against teachers\u2019 unions. Both unions exist to protect the employment of their members, rather than serve the public good.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There must be an emphasis on better officers rather than more of them. \u201cPolice departments\u2026 increase the requirements for new recruits and work to improve the professionalism of their existing workforce. Instead of affirmative-action hiring and promotion, standards for being in law enforcement should be made tougher and should focus on getting the best individuals regardless of color or creed.\u201d Body cameras can be integral for building greater trust.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[W]e should proactively adopt policies that will minimize the need for police involvement\u2026 [and] look at time-tested approaches \u2014 faith, free markets, and community responsibility \u2014 to aid us in our efforts.\u201d These include opportunity zones that go beyond policing and include support for charter schools, tax incentives for scholarships, a bigger role for faith leaders and groups, relaxed regulations on things like occupational licensing and the minimum wage and waiving the Davis-Bacon Act that favors unions over independent black contractors in federal construction work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cUltimately the discussion about law enforcement is an important one, as is the role that police officers play in our society,\u201d Horace and You write. \u201cRefocusing law enforcement so that it can play its critical role more effectively, while bolstering the foundations of our communities, will help make our inner cities not just safer, but also places of opportunity and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horace brought up many of these same issues on a recent edition of Sean Hannity\u2019s nationally syndicated talk radio program. Click the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MP0xaecHDU8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube link<\/a> to hear that interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sean Hannity and Horace Cooper Discuss Trump&#039;s Executive Order on Police Reform\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MP0xaecHDU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defunding the police is just not an option. In a new essay published by National Review, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper and former Justice Department official John Yoo call out the craziness of the left\u2019s demand that governments actually take money away from police departments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,36],"tags":[77],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reform Police: Recommit to Law Enforcement - The National Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David Almasi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David Almasi\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#\/schema\/person\/986101645c65e8d001dc8de54beb396d\"},\"headline\":\"Reform Police: Recommit to Law Enforcement\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-19T18:16:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-23T04:31:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/\"},\"wordCount\":672,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/policeoath.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ConservativeBlog.org\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\",\"Project 21\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/06\/19\/reform-police-recommit-to-law-enforcement\/\",\"name\":\"Reform Police: Recommit to Law Enforcement - 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