The Neville Chamberlain Approach

First a brief history lesson…

Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, conceding a region of Czechoslovakia to Germany.

His premiership was dominated by the question of his appeasement policy towards an increasingly aggressive Germany, and his actions at Munich. Chamberlain ultimately resigned the premiership because the Labour and Liberal parties would not serve under his leadership. He was succeeded as prime minister by Winston Churchill.

Chamberlain's reputation remains controversial among historians, which blamed Chamberlain and his associates for the Munich accord and for allegedly failing to prepare the country for war. Most historians in the generation following Chamberlain's death held similar views, Chamberlain is still unfavorably ranked among British Prime Ministers and international leaders

Chamberlain didn’t want to poke the Nazi bear and it wound up eating his face. He had believed that his acquiescence would protect England. He was wrong and therefore ill prepared for the war that nearly destroyed his country.

Here is the point. Senators, Representatives, Governors, Mayors, and local politicians of every stripe are mounting full blown attacks on the institution of law enforcement because of the massive protests across the country. They have capitulated and without any real thought are taking the American people down a potentially hazardous rabbit hole. They have instantly determined that all police departments are racist in their DNA.

Statistics and logic defeat their arguments hands down (not hands up). You can research the data your self and after you do so you cannot honestly say you believe the perception that is now being forced upon us.

Support of law and order is essential for a civilized society. Evil and bad people will always be among us, on both sides of the equation. The ones who are responsible for upholding the law must be held to the highest standards and as in the case of George Floyd prosecuted aggressively. On the other side of the coin thugs, evildoers and all criminals should not expect the police to turn a blind eye or give them any ability to continue committing crimes or to retaliate against them. Both thoughts can and must live simultaneously.

The racist label is one thing, but systemic racism is a completely different animal. The former refers to an individual or a specific act the later however claims that whole swaths of institutions, organizations and corporations have deep rooted bias against people of color, not only blacks. Obviously, police departments are the current focus. If you are to believe the Black Lives Matter movement and its many surrogates the departments are completely blind to matters of color. That implies that they have not been forthright in reaching out to communities they police for input and dialog. For years the methodology of police policies have been under rethinking and change.

In fact, when talking to communities of color, specifically black communities, the cry is for more police not less. Those people desire safety and protection from thieves, criminals, drug dealers and gangs. Isn’t that what we all want?

Surrendering to group pressure and accepting an emotionally overwrought agenda because anything else labels you a racist is cowardly. Remember Neville Chamberlain.