Democrat Police Bills

Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor.

Watch the full remarks here and a transcript is below:

Mr. Speaker:

In the summer of 2020, mobs of radical leftists burned our cities, preyed on innocent citizens, attacked our police officers and occupied business districts in what one leftist Democrat mayor called a "The Summer of Love." At least 25 people were killed. Republicans called for law and order. Democrats called for defunding our police departments and releasing dangerous criminals onto our streets – often within hours of their arrests. In the cities they controlled, they did just that.

And in those cities, crime has skyrocketed, including the fastest increase in homicides ever recorded in our nation. Ironically the greatest victims are their own constituents, who are now turning on them.

Crime doesn't concern House Democrats, but losing political support before an election - that scares them to death. And so we have these bills brought hurriedly to the floor today.

Let me point out the obvious. Republican communities have backed their police departments with the local funds and moral support they need to do their jobs. Democratic cities have defunded and demonized their police departments.

The Democrats' response is to take the taxes paid by the citizens who have fully funded their police departments and give them to those Democratic cities that have cut them. And still, virtually none of the money they propose to spend is for actual law enforcement. It is rather for intervention, de-escalation training, public health and social work training, all administered by the increasingly corrupt and politicized Department of Justice.

We have watched the Democrats utterly destroy the cities that they have dominated for decades. Do we really want to let them do the same thing to our country?

Americans need to ask themselves how much farther down this dismal road they're willing to go. We can restore safety to ALL of our communities the moment we summon the political will to do so.