Ex-Chicago Police Superintendent Thinks He Knows Real Reason Dem Officials Are Against Trump’s Crime Crackdown
The modern Democratic Party has grown sclerotic in its commitment to chaos. Indeed, the more indefensible the position, the more likely a modern Democrat will adopt it.
This phenomenon, of course, requires an explanation.
In an interview Tuesday with Jan Jeffcoat of The National Desk, former Superintendent of Police for the Chicago Police Department Jody P. Weis offered one of only two possible explanations for why Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson have fought tooth and nail against President Donald Trump’s pledge to clean up their crime-infested city.
“Why do you think Pritzker and Johnson are so resistant to this?” Jeffcoat asked.
“If I’m gonna say a simple answer,” Weis responded moments later, “I think they’re afraid. I think they are afraid that people will see what can be done if politicians commit to taking action and really want to make a difference.”
“That’s the only reason I can think of,” he added, “because, otherwise, it makes no sense.”
Weis then credited Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., for taking the opposite approach.
“And if you look at what Mayor Bowser has done in D.C.,” he continued, “she’s embraced it, and it’s made a huge difference. I wish they would learn from her.”
So why would Democratic leaders reject Bowser’s example and continue to resist Trump? Let us examine the only two possible explanations that leap to mind.
Oddly enough, the question of federal control over municipal law enforcement arose in an ancillary way when Alexander Hamilton, the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury, delivered a written opinion to President George Washington in defense of Congress’ power to create a corporation, in this case the First Bank of the United States, for the purpose of collecting taxes or regulating trade.