The national vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest law enforcement union, is calling on voters to oust politicians doing little to protect cities from violent crime.
“Vote their asses out,” said Joe Gamaldi, a sergeant with the Houston Police Department.
While on Fox’s Justice with Jeanine, he told host Jeanine Pirro that some politicians aren’t telling the truth about high crime in their cities and only address the issue when pandering to black, Hispanic, or other minorities.
“When [Chicago] Mayor Lightfoot said that crime is down in Chicago, actually, shootings are up 67% in Chicago, just like in New York, they’re up 142%. And the worst part about it is, it’s our black and brown communities that are being impacted the most. So, when you hear these politicians saying that black and brown lives matter, what they really mean is they only matter when they are politically expedient,” he said.
“So, when they want to let these repeat violent offenders out over and over again to kill, they don’t care about the lives in their community, all they care about is their radical agenda. But the sad thing is, we have the ability to fix this, we’re just not doing anything about it,” he added.
The FOP distributed his comments on social media, especially his call for voters to punish politicians for letting violent criminals go.
When some politicians say that “black and brown lives matter,” what they really mean is that they only matter when they’re politically expedient.
If your community is being ravaged by violent crime and your elected officials aren’t restoring Law and Order, VOTE THEIR ASSES OUT! pic.twitter.com/zCvwe0gq9h
— National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) (@GLFOP) July 11, 2021
“You think if we threw the book to these miscreants a little bit sooner, we would have these problems?” he said, adding, “If you’re watching there at home, and your community is ravaged by violent crime, and your elected officials aren’t standing on a platform of law and order, vote their asses out.”
Pirro also featured Lt. Tracy McCray, vice president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who agreed with Gamaldi and said crime is “out of control” in cities.
She added that police are the ones being singled out by politicians and prosecutors, not the criminals.
“I’ll give it to my brother over there to drop the mic on them just like he said. Morale, we have staffing issues, you know, people are hesitant to do their job because they’re afraid of being, you know, prosecuted because he is not prosecuting criminals. He has no problem prosecuting cops,” she said of San Francisco’s prosecutor.
