Waukesha Christmas parade horror made possible by bail reforms

“…What if Darrell Brooks had been shot dead by police officers while fleeing a felony in Waukesha, Wis., Sunday afternoon — and never got near that tragic city’s Christmas parade?

Would the nation’s cities be in flames once again?

Odds are the answer is yes — and that sad but entirely reasonable projection speaks loudly to the deranged state of law enforcement in America today.

And, in particular, to the nation’s bewildering inability — make that unwillingness — to confront the chaos and lethal violence now plaguing its cities.

Brooks was charged with five counts of murder Monday as Wisconsin officials and others attempted to come to terms with their singular calamity.

Officials say that Brooks, a 39-year-old career criminal, had been involved in a knife fight in Waukesha Sunday afternoon; that he bolted when police arrived before whipping his SUV through the parade route. Five marchers died, and scores were injured — several critically.

Nobody knows what was going through Brooks’ mind as he turned into the parade.

What matters now — apart, of course, from Waukesha’s unfolding, unfathomable human tragedy — is that Darrell E. Brooks has become the latest face of America’s deranged campaign against reasonable law enforcement.

That is, he’s the entirely predictable product of a political- and social-media driven effort to address crime by pretending that it doesn’t exist…”