You may have heard that a national group of police officers came out and backed Kamala Harris. Police Leaders for Community Safety backed her in a news statement this week.
“Vice President Harris has always cared about public safety and the rule of law, and this support shows that,” said Sue Riseling, Chair of Police Leaders for Community Safety. “Being leaders who have led police departments and the big national law enforcement groups, we know what it takes to make our neighborhoods safer. Having Kamala Harris as our next President is part of that plan.”
The Harris-Walz team was very happy about the support.
Also, the leftist media couldn’t stop talking about it, pushing the idea that it was an unbelievable snub of former President Donald Trump.
One news source even said that the group “usually backs Trump.”
There’s just one catch. There wasn’t even a group like this a few months ago. The Police Leaders for Community Safety group was “created in [June] 2024 as a nonpartisan 501(c)4 and bills itself as an organization that serves dozens of police leaders,” according to a story from USA Today.
Set up in June of this year? There are dozens of police officers?
In some ways, USA Today compared the support to Trump’s backing by the Fraternal Order of Police, which has been around since 1915 and had 373,000 members last year.
For some reason, Fox News called the group a “top law enforcement group.”
A group of well-known police officers who have led many major national law enforcement leadership groups say they run the organization. They say their goal is to support “policies to make communities safer and improve policing, and protect the rule of law.”
“The group’s support comes after the National Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s biggest police union, backed Trump earlier this month. This is Harris’s second support from a major law enforcement group.”
This year, Trump also got the support of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) and the International Group of Police Associations, which is another large police group.
There is no doubt that the Police Leaders for Community Safety is not on the same level as the National Association of Police Organizations, the Fraternal Order of Police, or the International Union of Police Associations. But it looks like both the left media and Fox News fell for the trick that this group’s support is just as important as any other.
Author: Scott Dowdy
