Dr. Wilfred Reilly: Idea of Abolishing or Greatly Defunding Any Major City Police Department Is Absolutely Ludicrous

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REILLY: “Yes. The idea of abolishing or greatly defunding any major city police department is absolutely ludicrous, almost every city would be dodge city Kansas. So I do want to say everyone hates police brutality, almost everyone favors basic measures like body cams. I saw the George Floyd of video. I want charges brought against all the officers involved, but we know scientifically what is going to happen if you dramatically pull back policing in urban centers because we have seen it. We call this the Ferguson effect four years ago. Following the riots near St. Louis, there was substantial police pull back and you started seeing headlines like from my hometown of Chicago, police stocks down 90%, crime skyrockets. This is an theoretical period from 2014 to 2017, we went from 14,000 odd murders in the United States to 17,294, substantial 20% increase. But I want to note, this affects communities of color the most read the majority of those lives lost if you want to talk about black lives were African-American lives. By the end of that. Matt, black people had moved past the combined white and Hispanic category in terms of the number of murders in our community. Roughly 8,000 to around 6.5, and I think we have already seen what happens to minority communities into white communities when the police pull back in Minneapolis. You look at that lake street district of the city, that was to a very real extent of black and Asian business community. You look at the businesses that were looted or burned to the ground talking about the sports bar, midori’s floating world cafe, one of the leading lack serving charter schools, the international bizarre was burned. These are places I’ve seen coming from the midwest, and I will say, I’ve never in my life seen anything as ludicrous as a heavily caucasian mob, which is what you had in Minneapolis. Burning a successful black man’s business while chanting black lives matter, and you’re going to get a lot more of that kind of nonsense and a big city with no police. That’s a bad idea. I could be the whole segment.”