'You're Losing': Kennedy Mocked Garland After He Begs For More Money
The political heads are already talking about the 2023 spending budgets. I guess we're all tapped out for this year so let's get that ball rolling, right? Attorney General Merrick Garland asked for $2.63 billion of taxpayers' money for next year's Department of Justice budget. He then asked for an additional $37.65 billion in federal funding presumably to fight crime?
Here's the deal, the DOJ adopted the left's agenda that cops are bad and countless officers have died under that big ugly agenda. So do we really want to keep feeding them souls unless they plan to commit to supporting officers and rejecting the 'defund' crowd?
Hell no. Anyone who said yes would have to be a raging idiot or a crook with their hands in that pot.
I said what I said.
LA Senator John Kennedy served Garland a cold dish of truth explaining that he is failing the US on crime. He also deemed Garland and said he should encourage CPD to reinstate stop-and-frisk policies to curb homicides.
Kennedy then questioned how the DOJ would support law enforcement officials in cities like Chicago, which has already seen 169 murders in 2022. Nearly 800 people were killed in the city of Chicago in 2021, the highest number since 1996. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) arrested only 201 people for homicide in 2021, although it claimed a case closure rate of 50%, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. CPD rules allow officers to claim a case “closed” if they believe a suspect is dead, prosecutors decline to charge or police decline to arrest a chief suspect.
“We haven’t made any inroads in stopping the killing. Chicago is now the world’s largest outdoor shooting range. We know that a lot of the shootings come from gangs. Why wouldn’t you want to call the police chief and the mayor in Chicago and say, ‘Look, you know who these gang members are. When you have reasonable suspicion under Terry v. Ohio, an objective standard, more than just a hunch, why don’t you aggressively stop, question, and frisk these gang members?'” he asked.
“The best way for the federal government to stop violent crime is to work at each local level and determine, and let the state and locals determine what the best use of their own resources is,” Garland dodged before Kennedy cut him off.
“I’m sorry to interrupt, but I’m trying to get some answers. Why won’t you do that? Just tell me why you won’t do that. Your opinion matters,” Kennedy pressed.
“Because there is no one solution fits all that the federal government can suggest to state and local law enforcement. We believe state and local law enforcement knows best as to what to do there. We provide our technical expertise. We put lots of resources into joint task forces,” the Attorney General answered.
“You are asking in the middle of raging inflation for 7% more money, $2.63 billion, to provide technical increase, technical advice? I mean, we’re going backwards here on crime, General. You are the country’s chief law enforcement officer. You won’t even answer my question about how you feel about stop, question, and frisk?” Kennedy shot back.
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I'm sorry (not sorry) but Chicago needs major work and a big part of that should be supporting the folks they hired to combat crime. The first step to that, in my opinion, is ditching that lunatic mayor Lori Lightfood. She is the one who cut officers down and set the tone in the city that the police are expendable.