After providing community watch to prevent crime in Chicago

It was the deadliest Memorial Day weekend in Chicago in eight years. At least 11 killed, 46 wounded in Memorial Day weekend violence in Chicago.

So the concept that the way to stop violence is not with police, but with alternate forms of community services did not bode too well in Chicago over the weekend.

The new mayor, same as the old mayor (with the help of the Governor) decided to follow through on the idea that police can be replaced by unarmed people who are looking to reason with the killers and otherwise prevent violence without being horrible racist police officers. This has been the flagship argument from the left for years now as it pertains to the means to quell violence. You need to "defund the police" and replace them with better qualified people who (in theory) can prevent violence without carrying a gun or having any authority to arrest anyone.

Memorial day weekend in Chicago showed us all how well that plan will work out. Apparently criminals do not feel the wrath of regular wearing yellow vests. They continued to shoot and kill each other in spite of these people. This must come as a major shock to those who believe that the police are the driving force behind crime and violence and that defunding the police would make everything better.

Now I am all for neighborhood watches, where the people on watch have a direct line to the police. I think those watches can work well, especially in the neighborhoods I grew up in and where I raised by children. But to suggest that these watch groups just existing without appropriate police back up (or existing in place of uniformed armed law enforcement) can actually solve the problems is a pipe dream. Not unless you have armed neighborhood watches where they would not have to worry about the repercussions of actually preventing crime.

Chicago (like almost every city run by Democrats) is a cesspool of crime and violence. Yet the citizens of these cities still hate the police and elect pro-crime Mayors and City Counsels who work non-stop to undermine the police. Then they blame the guns or the NRA or some Republican somewhere who is putting law and order first and actually preventing crime.

Hey... if you want to hate the cops and believe that the high arrest and incarceration rates are unfair and part of systemic racism, that is your choice. But you won't solve any of your

problems with crime and violence blaming those who have their own crime and violence at least under reasonable control.