Fear-mongering about immigrants undermines police and makes us all less safe

Fear-mongering about immigrants undermines police and makes us all less safe

Believe it or not, most cops don’t think they’re bad at their jobs. But over the last few years, it seems to have become strangely acceptable for self-proclaimed supporters of law enforcement to claim that we are. Amid routine attempts to portray American cities as crime-ridden hellscapes where nobody is safe, some political officials have led the public to believe police have lost control completely—an abject failure that has made the communiti…