The Progressive Utopia Has Turned Into A Nightmare For Many
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The Progressive Utopia Has Turned Into A Nightmare For Many
Crime is raging in many of our American cities at a level that we have not seen since the 1980s and 90s. Violence is once again an epidemic in our cities because of overreach by activists and inaction by elected officials.
In Cleveland, there was a mass shooting in the Warehouse District, a popular area filled with bars and nightclubs. Justin Bibb, the city’s progressive mayor, blamed Republicans in the state capital for the increase in crime on his watch. Like other progressive mayors, Bibb attempted to pivot to blaming guns while conveniently ignoring the fact that the increase in crime and decrease in police presence has accelerated largely during his first two years in office.
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Blaine Griffin, the city’s Council President, took a different approach than the blame-shifting mayor. Griffin told me “At the end of the day, we just can’t make excuses. We just got to get some things done, and we got to be willing to shake up the status quo. And [to] even some of our [political] friends that always want us to be politically correct…[the] people want us to hold these folks accountable.”
The Ohio and Cuyahoga County Republican Parties fired back at the mayor, issuing a joint statement that says, in part, “The soft on crime policies in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco have been a complete disaster, and Mayor Bibb should stop trying to emulate them.”
Speaking of Chicago, its new mayor, Brandon Johnson, is instituting policies that will exacerbate the crime crisis in that city. Johnson plans to delete a police database of gangs and gang activity because of “racial disparities”. There’s also no plan to increase police presence or activity in the city. Johnson wants to “re-envision” the role of a police officer, pitching a vision of Mayberry when the reality is Baghdad.
In Washington DC, their elected officials are finally starting to see the light. Just months after passing a soft-on-crime bill so extreme that even their progressive mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed it, they voted 12-1 in favor of a bill that strengthens penalties for violent crime and gives judges more tools to hold violent suspects in custody until their trial.
Brooke Pinto, the legislation’s sponsor, said that 30 of the suspects of victims or murders in DC in 2022 were out of jail awaiting trial. We are not talking about people who were caught with a marijuana joint. These were people accused of violent crimes. DC, like other cities, had a revolving door of release for suspected violent criminals and, at least in that city, they are beginning to see the error of their ways.
Frank Jackson, Cleveland’s former Mayor, once told me, “if you’re coming out of that mindset of ‘this ideology or philosophy is going to be the panacea’ and you actually believe that and you come [in office] and try to execute and implement that, you’re in for a rude awakening. Because the system doesn’t operate that way. The system is still what it is. And if you are able to achieve some of that stuff, you’re only going to be able to achieve it as the system allows you to achieve it, to continue the institutionalized inequities, disparities, and racism. So what you’re trying to defeat is what you’re actually causing to happen.”
I understand the concerns about the justice system. Many of the criticisms are valid. But I don’t believe it’s “pro-black” for elderly Black people to be terrorized in the streets and become prisoners in their own homes as a result of policies that allow your streets to become war zones. It’s not “pro-black” for black children to get hit by stray bullets while walking to the underperforming schools that the same people control. The dream of utopia that far too many elected officials in big cities believe in becomes a nightmare for the communities they say they care about.
Darvio Morrow is CEO of The FCB Radio Network and co-host of The Outlaws Radio Show
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The Progressive Utopia Has Turned Into A Nightmare For Many
Etymology of utopia-from Greek ou not, no + topos place
So literally “no place”
We are experiencing a similar rise in crime in Canada even with our stricter gun control laws. Rather than blaming guns, progressives frequently blame systematic racism and mental disease. Regardless of the cause, “catch and release” alongside selective enforcement of the law is clearly not the solution. Prioritizing law-abiding citizens by increasing policing, implementing a “broken windows” approach to law enforcement, and being tough on violent offenders is the only option.