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Time to End No-Knock Warrants?
“Defund the Police” is over but the hard work of criminal justice reform remains undone.
The news on left-leaning media outlet Axios today for the hyper-progressive wing of the Democratic Party wasn’t good: “Squad Politics Backfire” doesn’t leave a great deal of room for interpretation.
“The push to defund the police, rename schools and tear down statues has created a significant obstacle to Democrats keeping control of the House, the Senate and the party’s overall image,” concludes Axios grimly, echoing a sentiment coming from many Democratic Party quarters in the past months.
The recent San Francisco school board recall successfully ousted the three most progressive members on the board in a landslide; the only three, incidentally, who had served long enough to be eligible for recall.
Amid the usual hewn cries after such a bellwether- why it matters, why it doesn’t really matter all that much, dire interpretations of what it might mean countered by those loud insisting it means nothing at all- are some discussions about what, if anything, might be done about it.
The same happened after Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race for Virginia governor in November 2021.