Calls to defund the police have been foolish. It became the best way for Donald Trump and his ilk to illustrate the excesses of woke folk.
Those three words became a rallying cry in the Summer of 2020, when a Minneapolis man named George Floyd was brutally murdered by members of that city’s police force. Across the United States — and in Canada and Europe — hundreds of thousands of angry people rallied to protest police brutality.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.
But the damage had been done. Democratic Party ambitions were crushed by the “defund the police” idiocy. And now, up here in Canada, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has seized on the issue, too, and it’s working: he’s way ahead in the national polls, in part, because of it. And, yes: more compassion is always desirable. But when your 16-year-old is being stabbed in broad daylight on a city bus — as one was, just a few days ago — feeling compassionate towards the person wielding the knife is a bit hard, isn’t it?
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