The newest nonsense from the Left in response to police misconduct is to call for defunding or even disbanding police departments. The mind reels at the foolishness and callousness of this, and at the horrors that would be unleashed upon black Americans if this were to happen.

There’s no need to cite too many particular statistics, because so many statistics will bear out the following truths that anyone can find them in quick internet searches aplenty: The more cops there are, and the more they arrest serious criminals, the more the crime rates fall. Overwhelmingly, it is people of color who are less victimized when more police are more visible in city streets, able and willing to arrest more perpetrators of crimes.