Mark Penn: why were border, crime allowed to fester?

Mark Penn's tweet is the timeliest question of the day without knowing what would happen this morning. Penn commented "So one has to wonder why these issues like the open border and high urban crime problems were allowed to fester rather than be tackled head on. And even obviously exacerbated for a few years resulting in tens of thousands of deaths."

This morning's school shooting at Annunciation Roman Catholic Church in south Minneapolis is a reminder that taking a hands-off approach to crimefighting doesn't work. The frustrating part is that we know what works. Enforcing the law is required. It isn't important. It isn't a best practices issue. If law enforcement doesn't get anything else right, let them enforce the laws consistently.

We don't need to re-imagine policing, whether it's at the border or in the Heartland. The stuff we did in the 1950s worked for Rudy Giuliani in the 1990s, too. Whether you call it Broken Windows or something else, it's still the same principles.

One wonders why the border, crime and opioids were not front and center in the last administration that instead focused on equity and climate change when 100,000 lives a year could be saved here with the right policies.
You'd have to ask the activists who actually ran the White House why they did what they did. This is the difference that a legitimate leader makes:

Democrats need to pay a price for their fanciful thiking of 're-imagining' policing. As I said earlier, it's about doing the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. There are certain things that societies need to do, whether the mayor or governor is a Democrat or Republican. At the top is keeping people safe, whether it's from international cartels or local gangs. Let's put aside the partisanship on public safety. Let's just make certain that the laws are enforced consistently. Mark Penn's tweet:

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