Police In Dem-Run City Warn Of Harris ‘Disaster’ If She Wins
Vice President Harris’ previous support for a bail fund aiding Black Lives Matter protesters who have been convicted is a significant issue for law enforcement as she attempts to position herself as a proponent of law and order.
“Let’s be clear about something: If Kamala Harris becomes the next president of the United States, she will be an unmitigated disaster for public safety in this country,” Joe Gamaldi, the national vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police and an active Houston Police Department lieutenant, told Fox News.
“She has loudly and proudly supported bail reform and has even donated and encouraged other people to donate to a fund that helped get murderers, rapists, people who were shooting people in the streets, out on bail,” he continued. “We’re not talking about helping bail out the mom who stole a candy bar from the store to help feed her kids; we’re talking about violent criminals.”
The Houston officer further criticized left-wing ‘bail reform,’ stating it hasn’t succeeded in “any urban community” where it has been implemented.
“It is what has led to 16 American cities experiencing the highest murder rate in recorded history back in 2020-2021,” he said. “And we’re still living with the fallout of that.”
“Over the last three years in the United States, we’ve averaged over 20,000 homicides a year, and we haven’t seen those numbers since the mid-1990s,” Gamaldi added. “And now we’re going to have Vice President Harris, who is the presumptive nominee at this point, running on a platform of supporting bail reform after witnessing the horrific consequences we’ve seen in our urban communities.”
Charles “Cully” Stimson, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former prosecutor, mentioned that Harris uses the “exact same language” as Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Sen. Bernie Sanders when they advocated for defunding the police following George Floyd’s death in 2020.
“I know the language of the right and the left,” he said. “And this is exhibit A in a dog whistle to the left.”
“So, the reason that the media is now fawning all over her and trying to protect her and calling her the cop candidate is because they’re engaged in projection,” he added. “She’s anti-cop.”
Stimson further argued that when politicians and prosecutors push for “reimagining” the criminal justice system, they are essentially “pro-criminal.”
“‘Reimagine’ means pro-criminal; that’s all it means,” he stated. “The George Gascons, the Larry Krasner, the Alvin Bragg, the Kim Foxxs have enacted their policies [as district attorneys]. They refuse to prosecute all misdemeanors. They watered down felonies to misdemeanors. They don’t send violent juveniles to adult court. And the list goes on and on and on.”
Stimson also pointed out Harris’ endorsement of the $150 million defunding of the Los Angeles police department in 2020 under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Joseph Imperatrice, an NYPD detective and founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC, told the outlet that the nation requires a president who will “put the bad guys behind bars.”
“America needs a leader that’s going to keep bad guys behind bars, and unfortunately, Kamala Harris hasn’t done that,” he said. “It was proven during the riots by intentionally bailing out the bad guys.”
“This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, this is a humanitarian issue,” Imperatrice added. “This is an accountability issue.”
Reflecting on her tenure as San Francisco’s district attorney and subsequently as California’s attorney general, Imperatrice suggested that Harris’ record is marked by a combination of lenient crime policies and progressive discrimination.
“But unfortunately, we’ve seen pandering to the left over the last couple of years, pandering to activists,” he said.
“She has turned the corner,” he told Fox. “She’s not the prosecutor that we once knew, and now she’s allowing bad guys to not only stay out of jail, but she’s helping them to get out of jail, which is causing a big problem.”