Eunisses Hernandez is against the police — when it comes to protecting you.
But Hernandez is all for the police — when it comes to protecting her, and when she can charge the cost to taxpayers.
An investigation by The California Post revealed that despite campaigning to abolish or defund the police; despite voting against city budgets over police funding; and despite voting against the use of LAPD officers for council events, Hernandez used police to protect her own event.
That event was a celebration of Mexican Independence Day at City Hall last September. Hernandez’s office arranged for 13 armed LAPD officers to be there. They cost the city nearly $135,000 in overtime pay.
Sadly, that kind of hypocrisy is routine for the abolish-the-police crowd.
Several years ago, then-Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri, who rose to prominence as she led Black Lives Matter marches in St. Louis in 2020, was criticized for spending lavishly on private security even as she called for police services across the nation to be defunded.
As The New York Post reported, Bush found herself under federal investigation — during the Biden administration — after she spent some $500,000 in campaign funds on private security, including $60,000 on her husband, ostensibly for security services.
Bush claimed that she needed protection because of all the threats she received, as a controversial public figure.
That may be — but why should ordinary people be denied the same protection and peace of mind, when there is already a public service there to provide it?
The truth is that many minority communities need more, and better, policing — not less.
We have already seen dramatic gains in fighting crime that are the result of the Trump administration’s crackdown — and its surge of ICE agents into cities, where they have finally been able to do their jobs.
It turns out that abolishing or defunding the police is not the best idea.
And we know that, because those who should loudest about getting rid of cops are not willing to part with the protection they provide.
Hernandez, who is running for re-election in District 1, has tried to stifle law enforcement in her own district — whether it comes to ordinary policing, or to cleaning up MacArthur Park.
But when she wants to throw a party, she wants the police to be there, at public expense.
At least Cori Bush — or her donors — paid her security bills.
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