The most outrageous thing I heard yesterday was when Cat Brooks was interviewed on TV about the stunning announcement that “The California Highway Patrol has recovered 414 stolen vehicles, made 181 arrests, and seized over 30 crime-linked firearms in the East Bay as part of undercover sting operations and law enforcement surges over the past 8 weeks.”
The announcement came from Gov. Newsom, who sent the CHP here to do precisely what they’ve done: bust bad guys. Obviously, we’re all grateful to Gov. Newsom, and very thankful that so many arrests were made. (Let’s hope DA Price doesn’t release them all.) So what did Ms. Brooks have to say? “We should all be outraged that we needed the Highway Patrol to do something that the Oakland Police Department should have done in the first place.”
No, Ms. Brooks, we’re outraged that you are so malign and bitter. You can’t even be happy when Oakland is a little safer.
The woman just can’t help herself. But then again, she was mentored by Angela Davis, the Black Panther Queen who was in the Bay Area recently promoting her new book, “Abolition, Politics, Practices, Promises,” which advocates her career-long dream of abolishing prisons and, if possible, police departments. (Pamela Price too was influenced by Ms. Davis.)
What is it with these people? According to the Davis-Brooks-Price hallucination, all we have to do is to shut down the prisons, fire all the cops, and transfer a vast amount of the nation’s treasury into woke pet causes—with them running everything, of course.
What’s even more disgusting is Brooks’ allegation that OPD should have been making these arrests in the first place instead of CHP. This, from a cop hater who’s been trying to kill the police department for decades. Her main achievement in Oakland (if we can call it an “achievement”) is her Anti Police-Terror Project, which claims that Oakland cops are brutal thugs who invade Black communities and terrorize children. There’s no lie too hideous or fake for Ms. Brooks to utter. Driven by hatred (for cops, for White people, for law and order, for our capitalist economy, for our country), Brooks can’t bring herself to recognize the simple truth that we need police to combat crime, and that most of the crime in Oakland is committed by Black people. Yes, this truth is terribly inconvenient for Cat Brooks. She constantly talks about “the war on Black people by police” but never once have I heard her talk about the devastation wreaked upon Black people by other Black people. How many Black Oaklanders have been killed by police in the last quarter century (almost always when the cops were defending themselves)? Perhaps fifty. How many Black Oaklanders have been murdered by other Black people over the same time span? Thousands, and for no reason other than a swaggering thuggishness. So who is waging war upon Black people, Ms. Brooks?
You know, whenever I speak this truth, my opponents call me racist. But it’s like when the Catholic Church called Copernicus and Galileo blasphemers because they had the nerve to pronounce the truth, which ran counter to the Church’s superstitions. The church couldn’t manage to drag itself out of the Dark Ages. Neither can Price and Brooks crawl out of the muck of their own Dark Age racist obsessions.
Honestly, it’s time for the media to stop rushing to interview this ridiculous, duplicitous Cat Brooks every time they need a police critic. Ms. Brooks has nothing of value to say. She’s entirely predictable. She has learned nothing over the years, not even when her beloved “defund the police” movement crumbled into dust as the American people realized its horrors and utterly rejected the concept, thank God. Every time KTVU or the Chronicle quotes Cat Brooks about the police, it’s like interviewing Hitler about the Jews.
Yes, there are major issues in the Black community: child-rearing, education, crime among them. And government does have a role to play in resolving them. But we will never make any progress while that community has spokespersons like Cat Brooks and Carroll Fife who speak such untruths, who cover up the truth with lies, who have not the decency to utter the truth. Law-abiding people will not stand for more of our money being thrown at Black problems as long as Black politicians insult our intelligence with their propaganda. It’s not asking too much for us taxpayers to agree to a trade: We’ll start making concessions on investing in the community when the community tells people like Brooks and Price to stop the lies, shut up and go away.
Steve Heimoff