{"id":1165586,"date":"2021-12-28T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165586"},"modified":"2021-12-28T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:19:58","slug":"the-dumbest-slogan-of-2021-pete-hegseth-torches-defund-the-police-advocates-for-creating-culture-of-lawlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dumbest-slogan-of-2021-pete-hegseth-torches-defund-the-police-advocates-for-creating-culture-of-lawlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Dumbest Slogan Of 2021\u2019: Pete Hegseth Torches \u2018Defund The Police\u2019 Advocates For Creating \u2018Culture Of Lawlessness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-dumbest-slogan-of-2021-pete-hegseth-torches-defund-the-police-advocates-for-creating-culture-of-lawlessness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that \u201cDefund the Police\u201d was the \u201cdumbest slogan of 2021\u201d \u2014 and blamed those who advocated for defunding police for creating the \u201cculture of lawlessness\u201d that has plunged a number of major cities into wave after wave of increased crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-daily-wire-speaks-fox-news-pete-hegseth-frank-camp\/\">Hegseth<\/a> joined guest host Arthel Neville on \u201cThe Faulkner Focus\u201d to discuss dramatic upticks nationwide in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/security-executive-says-retailers-are-scrambling-to-protect-stores-from-smash-and-grab-robberies\/\">smash-and-grab<\/a> robberies and violent crime, and he said it all came back to the anti-police sentiment fostered by \u201cDefund the Police\u201d advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Neville began the segment with Los-Angeles-based Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse, noting that some 16 cities \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/philadelphia-nears-500-murders-in-2021-mayor-wants-gun-control-to-combat-it\/\">Philadelphia<\/a>, Indianapolis, and Austin \u2014 had already shattered their all-time records for homicides in a single year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthel, you know, those statistics you mentioned have started a national conversation about policy and prompted voters in some areas to rethink who they elect,\u201d La Jeunesse reported. \u201cSoft on crime prosecutors in L.A. and San Francisco are both facing recall. As you mentioned those \u2013 the cities along with those here in California are facing \u2013 seeing violent crime rates hitting levels not seen since the crack cocaine 1990s. California\u2019s four major cities also seeing increases including Oakland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neville then brought in Hegseth to discuss the impact of those \u201csoft on crime\u201d policies and what could be done to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you expect when you let criminals out of jail with no consequence, almost no consequence?\u201d Hegseth asked, noting that a failure to address crime left police officers demoralized, which in turn led to police departments being under-staffed because no one wanted to stay on the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it in the military context \u2014 if you don\u2019t believe your politicians or military leaders have your back, there is a limit to the risks and proactiveness you\u2019re going to take,\u201d Hegseth, continued. \u201cThat\u2019s the calculation law enforcement offices are making. Now many of them are short staffed, there are dispatchers coming out and reporting on the fact we don\u2019t have enough police in certain areas of Chicago and elsewhere to even cover down and basic assignments. All of this creates a culture of lawlessness. Regular people, especially the most downtrodden and especially people hurt the most by crime, are affected even more while the politicians who yell about defund the police \u2014 the dumbest slogan of 2021, may we bury it, okay, understanding what good work our police do. Those who spout that have their own law enforcement ultimately often, or a nice gated community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neville agreed, saying that many police officers were questioning why they should put their own lives at risk enforcing the law if the criminals were just going to be put back on the streets \u2014 sometimes within hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to ask you how can bail reform help solve this crime problem?\u201d Neville turned back to Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re doing is not bail reform. What they are doing is effectively a pro-criminal \u2018catch and release,&#8217;\u201d Hegseth replied. \u201cThere was a reasonable discussion led by the Trump administration about criminal justice reform, ways in which our justice system was stacked against certain people in certain situations. That was a reasonable conversation \u2026 When you point at police officers and say, \u2018You are racist, policing is racist. All cops are bastards.\u2019 When you say that you create an \u2018us against them\u2019 dynamic that makes it impossible for police officers to do their jobs and very easy for criminals to be let right back out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s an important point you make there. How do you solve that? There is something to be said about community policing and something to be said about misunderstanding each other. And there is this \u2018us against them\u2019 feeling in many communities. How do you fix that? Your opinion?\u201d Neville asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, first of all you educate kids not to hate the cops and your country,\u201d Hegseth said, arguing that it had to begin with a focus on border security and the notion that America was a sovereign nation governed by the rule of law. \u201cI think conversations are good but you need pro-active policing either way, whether you call it broken windows policing, community-based policing. You have police. When you let little things go you create bigger things, you create a culture of criminality. White people and black people and brown people and anyone in between equally and justice is blind to that reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one wants crime in their neighborhood,\u201d Neville agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that \u201cDefund the Police\u201d was the \u201cdumbest slogan of 2021\u201d \u2014 and blamed those who advocated for defunding police for creating the \u201cculture of lawlessness\u201d that has plunged a number of major cities into wave after wave of increased crime. Hegseth joined guest host Arthel Neville on \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}