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BRING BACK
THE
DEATH PENALTY.
BRING BACK
OUR POLICE!
What has happened to our City over the past
ten years? What has happened to law and order, to
the neighborhood cop we all trusted to safeguard
our homes and families, the cop who had the power
under the law to help us in times of danger, keep us
safe from those who would prey on innocent lives to
fulfill some distorted inner need. What has
happened to the respect for authority, the fear of
retribution by the courts, society and the police
for those who break the law, who wantonly trespass
on the rights of others? What has happened is the
complete breakdown of life as we knew it.
Many New York families - White, Black,
Hispanic and Asian – have had to give up the
pleasure of a leisurely stroll inthe Park at dusk, the
Saturday visit to the playground with their families,
the bike ride
stoops- given them up as hostages to a
world ruled by the law of the streets, as roving
bands of wild criminals roam our neighborhoods,
dispensing their own vicious brand of twisted hatrea
on whomever they encounter. At what point did we
cross the line from the fine and noble pursuit of
genuine civil liberties to the reckless and
dangerously permissive atmosphere which allows
criminals of every age to beat and rape a helpless
woman and then laugh at her family's anguish? And
why do they laugh? They laugh because they know
that soon, very soon, they will be returned to the
streets to rape and maim and kill once again - and
yet face no great personal risk to themselves.
Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor
should be removed from our hearts. I do not think
so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers.
They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill,
they should be executed for their crimes. They must
serve as examples so that others will think long and
hard before committing a crime or an act of violence.
Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I
always will. I am not looking to psychoanalyze or
understand them, I am looking to punish them. If the
punishment is strong, the attacks on innocent people
will stop. I recently watched a newscast trying to
explain the "anger in these young men". I no longer
want to understand their anger. I want them to
understand our anger. I want them to be afraid.
How can our great society tolerate the
continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed
misfits? Criminals must be told that their
CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON
OUR SAFETY BEGINS!
When I was young, I sat in a diner with my
father and witnessed two young bullies cursing and
threatening a very frightened waitress. Two cops
rushed in, lifted up the thugs and threw them out the
door, warning them never to cause trouble again. I
miss the feeling of security New York's finest once
gave to the citizens of this City.
Let our politicians give back our police
department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them
from the constant chant of "police brutality" which
every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer
who has just risked his or her life to save another's. We
must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal
population of this City. Give New York back to the
citizens who have earned the right to be New Yorkers.
Send a message loud and clear to those who would
murder our citizens and terrorize New York-
BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY
AND BRING BACK OUR POLICE!
at dawn, or just sitting on their
was
Donald J. Trump
2014
DAILY NEWS. Manday, May 1, 1989
