Incoming Governor Mike Kehoe (R-Missouri), for example, is promising to back the blue in the state that birthed the defund the police movement. In California, Lieutenant Randy Sutton (Ret.) of A Cop's Life says the governor may still be woke, but voters recently put in several tough-on-crime measures.
"Newsom is still part of the problem, not the solution, but the people of California spoke, and they said, 'We want a change,'" he relays. "We're seeing that in municipalities and cities and also in state governments."
Baltimore, New York, and Washington, D.C. are all ratcheting up criminal penalties after several years of lawlessness, but Sutton says politicians can only gaslight their constituents for so long before reality starts asserting itself.
"You're seeing mayors being put into office with an entirely different mindset and taking crime seriously," he notes.
Still, a lot of damage has been done in the last several years, and there remains a severe shortage of officers.
"We're not where we were prior to the George Floyd debacle and the insanity of the Left taking over district attorneys' offices and the defunding movement," Sutton laments. "I'm afraid we will never get back to where we were. Too much damage has been done."
While he celebrates the voters' outspoken desire for law and order, he is not sure the country will ever fully recover from the defund the police movement, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the rest of the anti-law Left.
"This has now become a generational issue," Sutton says.
