MSNBC Guest Blames Crime Surge on ‘Cowardly, Butt-Hurt’ Police

(Via NewsBusters) 

CROSS: “What's your take on -- I mean, do you really think there is an uptick in crime, the way that Republicans are framing it?”
DORSEY: “I don't necessarily think that there's an uptick in crime. And I can tell you that I know firsthand, you know, statistics can be manipulated. And so I think that this is, again, what officers, police departments, police chiefs, those who are savvy, try to do is pull back, make communities suffer just a little bit so you'll miss that heavy-handedness, those overzealous cops who are abusing their authority in your communities, and then when you cry uncle they come back times ten with more militarization, more heavy-handed elephant hunters who are now preying on an unsuspecting public.”