J.D. Greear, then president of the Southern Baptist Convention– and many other familiar figures within the convention– signed an open letter calling for reforms to deal with “racial inequity” in our criminal justice system (HT: Megan Basham). This took place five years ago in response to the George Floyd incident.
We later learned that Floyd had died of a drug overdose.
Numerous other institutions and individuals committed similar emotive errors and outbreaks of idiocy at that time that led to changes in policy.
This absolute flood of emotion-based policy-making resulted in much weaker policing and criminal justice. It was all profound ignorance.
That explains in part what happened in Charlotte a couple of weeks ago.
Morale in the Minneapolis Police Dept. is at an all time low. In addition it is facing stark officer shortages, having lost 40% of the force since the George Floyd incident . The local prosecutor is a joke and soft on crime. This was once a great city.. how to see sad to see its present state.
I see eerie similarities between Minneapolis and Charlotte.
That would be an outright shame, Fred, if Charlotte were to degenerate into Minneapolis. But the point is well taken that bad ideas can be very destructive.