US News Former police officer on New York Times’ op-ed calling police ‘the problem’: ‘It has gone too far’

Former authorities officer Brandon Tatum stated on Tuesday that a New York City Times’ op-ed calling the police ” the problem” is “definitely absurd” and “harming to the credibility of law enforcement.”

” I seem like, in this country, it has actually gone too far,” the previous Tucson, Ariz., law enforcement officer informed ” Fox & Buddies First.”

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The piece, entitled: “The Authorities Can’t Solve the Problem. They Are the Issue,” was written by attorneys Derecka Purnell and Marbre Stahly-Butts and focuses on the 1994 criminal activity costs signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton. The authors worried law enforcement is filling prisons at all expenses, in spite of severe overcrowding.

” The reality is this: The cops fill jails,” the authors wrote. “We can’t fix the damage that the 1994 criminal activity expense has done by promoting mass incarceration without minimizing the size and scope of the authorities.”

The short article concluded, “Systems of injustice, like slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration, need to be reduced and eliminated– not reimagined. Policeman, who primarily put individuals in cages, are the enforcers of mass incarceration. We need to consider the reality that the cops are part of the issue and stop investing cash, power and legitimacy in them.”

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Purnell and Stahly-Butts decried the 100,000 new law enforcement officers the criminal offense expense commissioned and claimed the surge just assisted reduce general crime by 1.3 percent. They likewise noted a 26 percent drop in general criminal activity from 1993-2000 but hesitated to credit law enforcement, rather associating the drop to pre-school and job programs.

” Authorities officers have actually become the scapegoat of everyone’s issues,” Tatum said.

” When you’re having an issue, you call the cops, when you are the problem, you blame the police and that’s exactly what they’re doing.”

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The article utilized the subject of imprisonment to slam President Trump’s just recently signed criminal justice reform expense and implicated the White House and Congress of not going far enough. It also declared over 150 black-led groups were against the legislation.

Fox News’ Nick Givas contributed to this report.