Larry Elder, a former California governor’s candidate and conservative radio host, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight Friday, and he didn’t hold back—saying the things you’re not supposed to say—while discussing the crime plaguing our inner cities. Carlson introduced Elder, then asked him what in the world is going, on and why isn’t every Republican running on a crime-fighting platform?
Elder author The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America, had thoughts:
These are the three major themes. The first is, let’s talk about the police. The police in city after city, whether it’s LA, whether it’s Chicago, whether it’s New York, they are demoralized by this lie that they are engaged in a systemic racism against minorities. That they’re using deadly force against minorities just because they’re black, and they’re no longer engaging in proactive policing, they’re not engaging in some form of stop, question and frisk which happened under the Guiliani regime in New York that caused a deep, deep decline in crime. Even Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Democrat mayor of Chicago, even said when he was mayor that the Chicago police had “gone fetal”—meaning they weren’t engaging in proactive policing.
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— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 20, 2022
In my opinion piece I asked: What are Leftists Looking for?, why don’t cities enact the same strategies that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton used to dramatically bring down crime and improve the lives of their citizens? We know what works; we’ve seen it before. The city’s crime rate in the ‘90s under Guiliani dropped 56 percent during the eight years he served as mayor. The broken windows policing theory has over and over again proved itself successful, yet in city after city they’ve tossed that strategy in favor of “progressive” policies” that have clearly failed as LA, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Minneapolis have proved. These scenes are commonplace.
#BREAKING: LAPD shares unbelievable footage of what they are calling a “flash mob”, mass looting of a 7/11 convenience store in Los Angeles this week, as the crime wave across America continues to intensify. #BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/llsdVPqHsv
— Breaking 4 News (@Breaking_4_News) August 19, 2022
Elder continued:
Second, there are soft-on crime policies. Soft-on crime governors, like that of California, and soft-on crime DAs. Gavin Newsom claimed that he had released more than 8,000 felons. Tucker said that some were violent offenders. It is likely that many of them will re-offend. You have these soft-on-crime policies like Proposition 47, that allows you to steal 950 bucks, not just a day, but per store, and if you get caught they write you a ticket as a misdemeanor and you don’t go jail because you got cashless bail.
He goes on to describe Proposition 57, which classifies many crimes as non-violent, even though they sound pretty invasive, like “rape of an intoxicated victim.” Ask the victims if that should be a misdemeanor. If criminals know they’re unlikely to get caught, or will face just a slap on the wrist if they do, guess what happens? Crime goes up. As Elder says, “they may be crooks, but they’re not stupid.”
Elder then goes to the place that liberals don’t like you to go:
The family breakdown is finally the topic that very few like to discuss, as you mention it in your monologue. You said their parents—plural—are not telling them not to steal. It assumes they have two parents. It is often the grandparent or parent. 40 percent of children in America today are born Tucker and have no father. Seventy percent, half of all Hispanic children, and 25 percent of the white children are black. If you’re born without a mother and father, you are more likely than others to abandon school or commit crimes, ending up in prison.
For pointing out inconvenient truths like this, the Los Angeles Times famously called Elder “the Black face of white supremacy” in one of the most racist headlines ever to appear in a major U.S. newspaper in modern times. Disgusting.
Elder is right about pretty much everything he says here, and it’s confounding that more people—especially more Republican candidates—aren’t listening. As we wait, our cities are falling before our eyes.