315 November 4, 2022 | 3 heritage.org The cumulative effect of these events contributed to and in large part set the conditions for increased crime across much of the country, especially in cities where the toxic trio of rogue prosecutors, defund the police zealotry, and demonization/demoralization of the police existed. [...] So instead of defending their calls to defund the police, the elections of pro-criminal rogue prosecutors, or their pattern and practice of demonizing police, some on the Left have decided to flip the narrative and argue that it is the Republican states that have the real crime rate problem, especially when it comes to murder. [...] Owens and all five members of the Board of Supervisors are Democrats.28 In Jackson County, Mississippi, District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath is a Repub- lican, as are four of the five members of the Board of Supervisors,29 but the City of Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is a Democrat. [...] Gipson is a Demo- crat, as are nine of the 11 members of the Richland County Council.33 Lexington County Solicitor Rick Hubbard is a Republican, as are all nine members of the Lexington County Council.34 l In Bernalillo County, New Mexico (which includes Albuquerque), four of the five members of the Board of Commissioners are Democrats, as are Mayor Tim Keller and District Attorney Raul Torrez.35. [...] Some of the names of those shot and killed by the police have been household names and rallying cries in the so-called social justice movement in the United States, which started in earnest in 2014 after the death of Eric Garner in July 2014.
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