Former Democrat Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis has issued a new warning to his fellow party members over the threat that rising crime poses to their future political prospects.
As The Hill reports:
“I’m saying to myself, my God, what the hell is going on here?” Dukakis added during a 40-minute phone interview from his home in Brookline, Mass., late last week.
“On one hand, you have folks screaming and yelling about getting rid of policing, which makes no sense at all. And then on the other hand, you have some people totally misinterpreting what community policing is, just as we were really making huge progress,” he said…
At roughly the same time as the protests over policing erupted, however, rates of violent crime began to rise alarmingly.
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In New York City, the murder rate rose about 45 percent in 2020. Homicides in the city have increased a further 13 percent so far this year. Similar patterns are being seen in other cities. Murder rates in Atlanta and Miami had risen about 50 percent and 30 percent year-on-year as of May.
Dukakis was defeated during his ill-fated 1988 Presidential Campaign in large part because of the perception that he was soft-on-crime.
