The national vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has warned that if Kamala Harris becomes the next US president, she will be an unmitigated disaster for public safety in the country.
Joe Gamaldi, who is also an active Houston Police Department lieutenant, was talking to Fox News when he made the comments. He also said that Harris “has loudly and proudly supported bail reform and has even donated and encouraged other people to donate to a fund that helped get murderers, rapists, people who were shooting people in the streets, out on bail”.
“We’re not talking about helping bail out the mom who stole a candy bar from the store to help feed her kids; we’re talking about violent criminals” he added.
Gamaldi’s concerns are underscored by other Blue city cops
Fox News reports: Gamaldi said bail reform has not worked in “any urban community.”
“It is what has led to 16 American cities experiencing the highest murder rate in recorded history back in 2020-2021,” he said. “And we’re still living with the fallout of that.
“Over the last three years in the United States, we’ve averaged over 20,000 homicides a year, and we haven’t seen those numbers since the mid 1990s,” he said. “And now we’re going to have Vice President Harris, who is the presumptive nominee at this point, is going to run on a platform of supporting bail reform after seeing the horrific consequences we’ve seen in our urban communities.”
Joseph Imperatrice, an NYPD detective and founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC, told Fox News Digital that America needs a president who will “put the bad guys behind bars.”
America needs a leader that’s going to keep bad guys behind bars, and unfortunately, Kamala Harris hasn’t done that,” he said. “It was proven during the riots by intentionally bailing out the bad guys.”
“This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, this is a humanitarian issue,” Imperatrice said. “This is an accountability issue.”
After more than a dozen years as San Francisco’s district attorney and then as California’s attorney general, Imperatrice indicated that Harris’ track record included a mix of soft-on-crime policies and progressive discrimination.
“But unfortunately, we’ve seen over the last couple of years pandering to the left, pandering to activists,” he said.
“She has turned the corner,” he said. “She’s not the prosecutor that we once knew, and now she’s allowing bad guys to not only stay out of jail, but she’s helping them to get out of jail, which is causing a big problem.”
Charles “Cully” Stimson, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former prosecutor, told Fox News Digital that Harris uses the “exact same language” as Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Bernie Sanders when they previously called for the defunding of police in the wake of George Floyd’s death while being detained by Minneapolis police in 2020.
