Voters in California delivered a stark warning to the Democratic Party about the potency of law and order as a political message in 2022. From The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — Voters in California delivered a stark warning to the Democratic Party on Tuesday about the potency of law and order as a political message in 2022, as a Republican-turned-Democrat campaigning as a crime fighter vaulted into a runoff in the mayoral primary in Los Angeles and a progressive prosecutor in San Francisco was recalled in a landslide.
The elections Tuesday showed the extent to which the political winds have shifted even in Democratic cities in the two years since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer. The initial rally cry on the left then — “defund the police” — has since become so politically toxic that it is now more often used by Republicans as an epithet than by Democrats as an earnest policy proposal. And the crusading energy to overhaul policing in the face of rising crime has waned.
But Brown said too many Democrats do not want to talk about “what cops do” for fear of crossing the party’s activist class and offending “AOS or AOC or whatever that woman’s name is,” he said dismissively of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, an influential progressive. Turnout was low Tuesday across California. And there is always a risk of overinterpreting local races where distinctly local dynamics are often at play. Caruso’s vast financial advantage — he outspent Bass by more than 10-to-1 — is not replicable in most races, and he still faces a fierce fight in the fall.
Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, met privately with Adams this spring in part to strategize on approaches to public safety. “He was empathetic to the plight and the issue that we’re all facing,” Frank Carone, Adams’ chief of staff, said of Klain. The city’s mayor, London Breed, has sparred with Boudin and declared in an emotional speech at City Hall in December that “the reign of criminals who are destroying our city” was over. More recently, she announced plans to boycott this month’s Pride parade after organizers had banned law enforcement uniforms. The ban on uniforms was eventually reversed, and so was the boycott.
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