John Kennedy says DC resembles scene from Mad Max movie: ‘With out order, there will be no justice’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated the nation’s capital has grow to be extra like a scene out of the motion movie collection Mad Max after native lawmakers “determined that cops had been a much bigger downside than criminals.”

“Look, it's laborious to not discover. I stay right here part-time,” Kennedy instructed Fox News Tonight. “There are actually streets in Washington, D.C., that appear to be they're out of a scene from Mad Max. It wasn’t at all times that manner. What occurred? It’s not quantum physics.”

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“Three years in the past, D.C. lawmakers determined that cops had been a much bigger downside than criminals. So, they defunded the police — lower them $15 million. These D.C. lawmakers stated, ‘We wish justice.’ Effectively, don’t all of us?” Kennedy continued.

Kennedy stated he had two “newsflashes” for these supportive of defunding the police: “With out order, there will be no justice.” He added that regulation enforcement is required to cease those that commit crimes.

“Except you've a historical past of disappointing your mother and father, you already know or ought to know that there are some folks on this world — I don’t know why — however they aren't sick. They aren't blended up. They’re not confused. It’s not that their mom or father didn’t love them sufficient,” Kennedy stated. “They're simply delinquent, and by that, I imply, they damage different folks. They usually take different folks’s stuff. We now have to separate them from society. Hugging them and giving them scorching cocoa isn't going to work. That’s why we want cops.”

The Louisiana senator prompt that whereas there are “unhealthy cops,” nearly all of them are “not unhealthy folks, and they'll depart you alone except you do unlawful stuff.”

Kennedy’s feedback come after the D.C. Council handed an emergency public security invoice on Tuesday to handle the rising crime within the metropolis.

As of Tuesday, homicides are up 17%, complete violent crime is up 33%, and all recorded crime is up 30% in comparison with this time final yr, per Metropolitan Police Division information.