#BlackLivesMatter = White Liberals Selling Out Vulnerable Americans for Criminal Underclass

Juan Williams writes today in “The Hill:”

#BlackLivesMatter is fast becoming its own worst enemy.

It lacks an agenda, it is antagonizing the black community’s top white political allies, including Democrats running for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, and it is not finding common ground with any of the Republican majority in Congress.

The catalyst for the movement was outrage over the deaths of young black men like Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police officers who arguably used excessive, even deadly force. But where is the list of solutions to the injustices it so often decries?

Good question.  Especially as murder rates have spiked in  Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Baltimore this year. Leftist commentators would quickly move to what they do best — blame it on the guns. Except the three cities have completely different gun-control laws. 

They do, however, have one thing in common. My husband David French, writes at National Review Online::

What do they have in common? They’ve all been at the center of the radical critique mounted by #BlackLivesMatter. In St. Louis, arrests are down and murder is up. In Baltimore, arrests are down and murder is up. In Milwaukee, still dealing with the death of Dontre Hamilton, Chief Flynn has spoken openly of how — time after time — aggressive policing met with media and activist pushback, until the department retreated into initiatives focused on “building empathy.” In Heather Mac Donald’s words, law-enforcement officials are “disengaging from discretionary enforcement activity,” and the result has been more violent crime.

What this impulse forgets is the reason so many were calling for tougher enforcement in past decades — and who was doing the calling.

A hidden story of the war on crime is the key “40-year role” played by the black community in calling for ever-tougher measures to save their neighborhoods and their families, measures that have succeeded in granting an untold number of African-Americans the chance to live peacefully and build productive lives.

… Aggressive policing has its undeniable costs — including of course larger prison populations and incidents of abuse as contact between the police and the civilian population increases. Radical activists, however, seem to take lower crime rates entirely for granted and focus exclusively on police abuse, somehow believing that crime will remain in check even as aggressive policing recedes.

By allowing themselves to be swayed by #BlackLivesMatter anger, white liberals are selling out real, vulnerable Americans in favor of the criminal underclass.

Read the rest of the article at National Review Online.