Combatting crime falls to preachers and business leaders who are bridging the gap between communities and the police.
By Eileen Griffin
A group combatting crime, Faith and Blue, held events throughout the country in October.
For the fourth year, events will be held bringing people from the faith community and local law enforcement together, the Washington Times reports. All 50 states will participate, and, for the first time, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico will also participate.
About 4,000 events were expected, starting with a kick-off at the National Law Enforcement Museum in the District of Columbia.
The purpose of the events is to bring together people in the community and introduce them to law enforcement in an informal and friendly environment. The hope is to change the perception of the police and show the community that they are human beings, not just cops.
The organization Faith and Blue states on its website, “Faith and Blue was launched to facilitate safer, stronger, more just and unified communities by directly enabling local partnerships among law enforcement professionals, residents, businesses and community groups through the connections of local faith-based organizations.”
Leaders in the faith community are critical partners in the group’s efforts and they are actively engaged throughout the weekend’s activities.
“There is no resource that can match the depth of the faith community in facilitating productive engagement with law enforcement, which is needed now more than ever,” the website states.
The need to change the perception of police officers was revealed in a recent Manhattan Institute study, as Heartland Daily News previously reported.
The study exposed a media bias that created a very negative view of law enforcement. The coverage grossly exaggerated acts of violence within the police community.
In San Francisco, California a group of businesses have banned together to counteract the growth of crime and impact on the city, FBN Fox Business News (FBN) reports.
Advance SF, a non-profit comprised of business leaders in San Francisco, is trying to change the perception of the city, using advertising campaigns to improve the city’s image as companies leave in droves.
“This year, a slew of companies also indicated they would exit locations in San Francisco’s downtown area, pointing to reasons varying from changing consumer habits to local business conditions to safety concerns,” wrote Aislinn Murphy for FBN.
The negative perception of police, the soft-on-crime policies of the left, along with Soros-backed D.A.s have combined to unleash an unprecedented crime wave in this country over the last few years, as Heartland Daily News has reported extensively.
Groups like Faith and Blue and Advance SF are taking steps to address the crime problem because political leaders are not doing their job to protect communities.
Random acts of violence are occurring with increasing frequency from individual violent attacks on the street to mob looting and theft. Scholars at the Manhattan Institute, a think tank focusing on safety in America, recently reacted to the public safety plague.
“Conservatives can call for the restoration of law and order and of constitutional policing until they are blue in the face,” Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes in a statement for the organization. “But unless they acknowledge and rebut the reason for the dismantling of policing, nothing will change.”
Mac Donald says the reason criminals are not pursued is disparate impact.
“We have stopped arresting and prosecuting crime because doing so has a disparate impact on black criminals,” Mac Donald writes. “We have decided as a society that we would rather tolerate ever increasing levels of crime than to put more black criminals in prison. For reasons incomprehensible, Black Lives Matter activists have decided to make black criminals, not black victims, their civil rights cause.”
“But when you protect black criminals, you are leaving law-abiding black Americans at the mercy of anarchy,” Mac Donald writes. “And that anarchy is now spreading throughout society and affecting all. Conservatives must be willing to say that law enforcement that has a disparate impact on black criminals is not per se racist but is simply going where the crime is.”
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