Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said the nation’s capital has become more like a scene out of the action film series Mad Max after local lawmakers “decided that cops were a bigger problem than criminals.”
“Look, it is hard not to notice. I live here part-time,” Kennedy told Fox News Tonight. “There are now streets in Washington, D.C., that look like they are out of a scene from Mad Max. It wasn’t always that way. What happened? It’s not quantum physics.”
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“Three years ago, D.C. lawmakers decided that cops were a bigger problem than criminals. So, they defunded the police — cut them $15 million. Those D.C. lawmakers said, ‘We want justice.’ Well, don’t we all?” Kennedy continued.
Kennedy said he had two “newsflashes” for those supportive of defunding the police: “Without order, there can be no justice.” He added that law enforcement is needed to stop those who commit crimes.
“Unless you have a history of disappointing your parents, you know or should know that there are some people in this world — I don’t know why — but they are not sick. They are not mixed up. They’re not confused. It’s not that their mother or father didn’t love them enough,” Kennedy said. “They are just antisocial, and by that, I mean, they hurt other people. And they take other people’s stuff. We have to separate them from society. Hugging them and giving them hot cocoa is not going to work. That’s why we need cops.”
The Louisiana senator suggested that while there are “bad cops,” the majority of them are “not bad people, and they will leave you alone unless you do illegal stuff.”
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Kennedy’s comments come after the D.C. Council passed an emergency public safety bill on Tuesday to address the rising crime in the city.
As of Tuesday, homicides are up 17%, total violent crime is up 33%, and all recorded crime is up 30% compared to this time last year, per Metropolitan Police Department data.
