Did you feel it? Oakland just hit The Tipping Point. After our horrendous Summer of Death, city officials—who for years denied that we need more cops—stumbled into the truth: Expand the Oakland Police Department, or face the demise of a once-great city. If an event of this magnitude can be summed up in a single headline, it’s this one, from this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle:
Oakland leaders are scrambling to tackle violence and attract police officers
Who could have imagined, just two weeks ago, that this would happen? Libby Schaaf calling for more police. Sheng Thao calling for more police. Loren Taylor calling for more police. The people demanding more police. It took 127 dead people, slaughtered on our streets, to get us here, which means that the people who prevented this tipping point from starting earlier have blood on their hands.
Take Carroll Fife. The chief defunder on the City Council can’t believe what happened this week. She thought she had the Council in the palm of her hand, compelling it to go along with her fantastic, awful scheme to destroy the Oakland Police Department. And now, this! Caught completely offguard, Fife did what she does best: went on the attack. Doubling down on the insanity, first she blamed Libby Schaaf for the violence. When no one bought that crap, she turned her frustration on the Oakland Police Officers Association—and her broken cell phone—and then, shockingly, stoked racial and ethnic divisions by referring to Chinatown residents as “the Model Minority.”
Desperate, confused, scared, Fife—the Left’s version of QAnon--has nowhere to turn—and, with the Council’s Dec. 7 meeting on police and violence coming up, she senses the walls closing in on her.
So does her comrade-in-arms, Cat Brooks, who took her losing war to Twitter. She compared Mayor Schaaf’s call for more police to Trump’s threat to sic the National Guard on Oakland (an idea, by the way, that’s increasingly popular on nextdoor.com). Her cult, the Anti Police-Terror Project, called the violence in Oakland “State violence” and actually accused “institutions and politicians” of “benefitting from our murders,” as if these homicides were committed for profit by the Governor, or members of the Legislature, or Schaaf herself, instead of the feral thugs who pull the triggers. She’s now saying Schaaf, Thao, Taylor, etc. are “manipulating our pain for their gain”!!! Her minions, blind to reality, uncaring about crime, join in perpetuating her propaganda. One of them tweeted, “The police are sitting there watching the shootings go down. No mention that they are showing up for work doing nothing and collecting taxpayers money!” How are we to respond to such hallucinations—the police are just sitting there…doing nothing…collecting taxpayers money? We have to ask: What the hell is wrong with Brooks and her people?
Ah, well, it doesn’t really matter. Let them howl at the moon as they fade away into insignificance. They’ve lost. We, the People, have won. We’ve hit The Tipping Point. Cat Brooks, Carroll Fife, and the entire defund-the-police crowd have been repudiated by History.
Steve Heimoff