Northern Ireland politician faces criticism after response to new gender inclusive uniform policy for police
A controversy about a hat!
DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley has been subjected to criticism on social media after responding to a PSNI tweet regarding their new inclusive uniform policy.
Marking Foyle Pride on Saturday, the PSNI’s online LGBT+ Network account tweeted: “We're proud to say that this week our Police Service changed its policy on uniform items.”
The post featured PSNI officer Paul Bloomer, co-chair at the police’s LGBT group.
“This means all officers have agency over their gender presentation. Men, women & those with non-binary identities may wear either hat. A small but meaningful step forward for equality,” they added.
In response, the Upper Bann politician was critical of the tweet and replied: “I’m sure you all feel great. Everyone can stand around and clap each other on the back in the ‘politically correct brigade’.
“How about getting on with the real issues affecting people such as tackling drugs, theft and crime?”
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Identity politics will be the downfall of Democrats
Sitting in my first-grade classroom back in early 2009, I watched as President Barack Obama was sworn into office. I did not understand the full significance of the moment, but I understood that a milestone in American history had been reached. Love him or hate him, Obama represents significant progress for the United States. But to the Democratic Party, his success solidified the new strategy for future candidates: run a minority who fits the party's social agenda.
Since Obama’s election, Democrats have consistently backed candidates looking first at their race, gender, and sexual identity and second at their qualifications, resulting in our nation’s leaders now lacking the experience and expertise needed to run the country. The Democrats’ insistence on identity politics has hurt their standing within minority communities nationwide.
Look no further than the supposed crowd favorite for 2024. Former Mayor of South Bend turned Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was entirely unknown before the 2020 presidential cycle. Following his failed presidential campaign, securing just 21 delegates, Buttigieg has become the golden child for the Democratic Party. Why? It certainly isn’t his job performance. Since his confirmation, gas prices have hit the roof, and airports across the nation have been plagued by sky-high prices, delays, and cancellations.
So why are Democrats so infatuated with Mayor Pete? He fits the social agenda the Democratic Party is trying to impose upon America. The same can be said of Vice President Kamala Harris, chosen to run alongside President Joe Biden after a disaster of a presidential bid. Harris was chosen, not because her four short years as a senator qualified her to serve a heartbeat away from the presidency, but because her race and gender fit the narrative. Now, the public is seeing firsthand how disastrous selecting a candidate solely for their race, gender, or sexuality can be.
The sad reality for women and minorities in politics is that this strategy by the Democratic Party is only hurting their ability to gain positions of power. Democrats are forcing unqualified candidates to the top to sell themselves as inclusive, abandoning women and minority leaders with experience and instead pushing unqualified candidates such as Buttigieg and Harris. Meanwhile, the Republican Party has many minority candidates whom voters are excited to see throw their hats in the ring. The difference is that when Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott run for president, they won't be just minority candidates; they will be qualified candidates. They have worked their way to the top, not due to the color of their skin or their matching X-chromosomes but because they have done well for their constituents.
This is evidence of a larger problem within the Democratic Party. For years and years, Democrats have taken advantage of minority voters, promising the world but consistently ignoring them once in power. Look no further than Biden’s track record of higher gas prices and a failing economy, devastating minority communities nationwide. On the other side of the aisle, Republicans are working hard to earn the votes of minorities. The RNC has made a significant investment in minority communities around the nation through new community centers.
Feeling support slipping among minority voters, Democrats have begun to rely further on identity politics as a tactic to control minority voters under the guise of equal representation. Instead of bolstering unqualified candidates, Democrats should allow their minority leaders time to build positive reputations and run on their expertise and experience.
With their use of identity politics paired with overlooking minority voters and the issues important to them, Democrats are quickly losing support. Now, it is time for the Republican Party to earn the trust of minority voters. Republicans must show minority voters that the values and principles the Republican Party is built on mirror those of the diverse cultures from around this nation. Republican leadership can usher in the greatest political realignment of the last 50 years by showing all people that Republican policies will improve lives from coast to coast regardless of race, gender, or sexual identity.
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Identity politics dominates New York primary race
A woman versus a Jew!
Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler are increasingly turning to identity politics as they make overtures to New York voters ahead of next Tuesday's incumbent vs. incumbent primary.
Maloney is framing the race as a gender war, arguing Nadler embodies the "old boys network" after he received the high-profile backing of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Nadler, meanwhile, is billing himself as the sole Jewish representative of New York City left in Congress.
"The old boys network is very, very close, and they support each other," Maloney said of Schumer's endorsement.
Maloney has argued being a woman makes her uniquely qualified to represent New York's newly drawn 12th Congressional District in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning the long-standing precedent of Roe v. Wade. The congresswoman, who was among a group of lawmakers who were arrested at an abortion rights rally last month, recently released an ad telling voters, "You cannot send a man to do a woman's job."
Nadler, by contrast, has indicated his Jewish heritage makes him best able to represent New York City, home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.
"New York has a lot of outstanding leaders, but few of them lead with the courage, conviction, and brilliant legislative effectiveness of my friend, Jerry Nadler," Schumer, who is also Jewish, said of Nadler. "I've watched as time after time, Jerry — a critical partner of mine in the House — was right on the issues years before so many others."
Earlier this month, Nadler sent out a fundraising email with the subject line "The Last Jewish Congressman from NYC???"
"For a century, New York has been the center of Jewish politics and identity in the United States – but Jerry Nadler is the city's last Jewish congressman," the email said, describing Nadler as a champion for defending Israel.
While the two were once close allies, Nadler and Maloney were thrown into the same district under the Empire State's newly drawn congressional map. The lawmakers, aligned on most political topics, have reached back decades to unearth ideological differences, with Nadler blasting Maloney, who represented what was once the more conservative "Silk Stocking District," for her votes in support of the Iraq War and the Patriot Act roughly 20 years ago.
An aggressive map signed by New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul that would have locked in an expected 22-4 partisan advantage for Democrats was stricken by a series of courts, forcing Democratic lawmakers into awkward games of musical chairs with onetime allies. As Nadler and Maloney, both elected to Congress in the 1990s, battle for the 12th Congressional District, other incumbents managed to avoid being set on a collision course. Freshman Rep. Mondaire Jones, who represents a suburban district north of New York City, relocated to the new 10th Congressional District, thus averting a bitter fight against Rep. Sean Maloney or a tense faceoff with ally Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
New York's 12th Congressional District has a partisan voter index of D+68, meaning whoever wins the Democratic nomination is expected to win the general election in November by a large margin.
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Crime is being decriminalised
In February Joshua Carney, a man with 47 previous convictions, was released from prison early on licence. Five days later, he forced his way into a Cardiff house, locking a terrified woman inside. Her screaming woke her 14-year-old daughter upstairs. Carney raped both daughter and mother in front of each other. On Monday, Carney was jailed for ‘life’; he will be considered for parole in ten years, at the age of 38.
The core principle of British justice isn’t public safety. If it was, Carney would never leave prison.
This isn’t about the preservation of liberty; the threat of crime is a far greater constraint on the average person’s freedom than the threat of prison. Instead, the British justice system is based around an almost pathological need to offer offenders a second chance, and a third, and a fourth, even when these chances come at the cost of somebody else’s chance to live their life free of violence. In Carney’s case, the 47 chances he has already received are deemed insufficient; he will have a chance to return to the streets while still young and able-bodied
British criminal justice isn’t just. Under-resourced and overworked police forces no longer have the capacity to investigate any but the most serious offences. Overcrowded prisons and soft laws mean that in the event someone is caught, offenders will soon be released from jail to reoffend. In effect, theft, burglary, and other offences are no longer meaningfully crimes; there are no consequences for them.
If you feel like things are getting worse, you’re right. Police forces are now solving the lowest proportion of crimes on record, with just 6 per cent resulting in charges, down from 15.5 per cent six years ago. Rape and sexual offences are at record highs, and police resources aren’t keeping pace; a woman who is raped has a one in 77 chance of seeing her attacker prosecuted.
Less serious offences have effectively been decriminalised entirely. Take thefts from vehicles. Last year, the Metropolitan police solved 271 of these incidents, out of the 55,000 that were reported. Now imagine how many more incidents the police didn’t hear about because the victims knew that reporting a crime would have no consequences. Over the last three years, 21,000 neighbourhoods in England and Wales reported at least one burglary; but in 17,000 of those areas, not a single such crime has been solved by the police.
What is deeply frustrating is that it doesn’t need to be this way. Criminal behaviour is remarkably concentrated; in Sweden, 1 per cent of the population commits 63 per cent of all violent crime, while in England and Wales 50 per cent of all prison sentences are handed out to offenders with at least 15 previous convictions. This concentration means that the best ways to prevent crime are remarkably straightforward: put police out on the beat, give them adequate resources to find criminals, and then lock those criminals away so they can’t reoffend.
Right now, our police forces are badly underfunded. The government tells us again and again how proud it is to have put an additional 10,000 police officers on the streets, and how it will soon add an extra 10,000 on top of this figure. Once completed, this recruitment drive will have finally reversed the cuts implemented post 2010. But with a larger population and more crime, this is nowhere near adequate. The court system, too, is crumbling; there are 58,000 cases waiting to go in front of a judge and jury. The average delay between crime and verdict is now almost 15 months.
All of this is worsened by the collapse of Britain’s health infrastructure. The decision to close asylums in favour of ‘care’ in the community has been a disaster; the Metropolitan police now detains someone under the Mental Health Act every 90 minutes, with some officers wasting whole shifts waiting for a hospital place to become available for their treatment. The lack of a place for these people to go means they are eventually returned to a situation evidently unsuitable for them, resulting in more police call-outs. Meanwhile, the permanent NHS crisis means armed police units are regularly dispatched to heart attacks when ambulances are unavailable.
The choice the next prime minister faces is simple. They can find a way to fund criminal justice, or they can continue with the de facto decriminalisation of crime. When they make this decision, they should remember that we ask two things of our criminal justice system. We ask it to keep us safe from criminals, by deterring their activity through policing and incapacitating them through imprisonment. And we ask it to keep the criminals safe from us, by providing punishments which satisfy the fundamental human need to see wrongdoing meet with consequences. When crime is de facto legal, people will eventually take the need to deter and punish into their own hands.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/crime-is-being-decriminalised/
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