Liberal policies are to blame for the continuing rash of violence against police officers across the nation, retired New York City detective Harry Houck told Newsmax TV on Friday.
Democrats "believe because they were elected they know the best way to police, and we can see how it's working out," Houck told Newsmax's "The Brett Winterble Show."
"Their policies do not work, and what they also do is they hamstring police officers to be able to go out and do their job. And basically what it does, it increases the crime rate," Houck said.
"Most people that live in these high crime areas do support the police, but the demagogues out there they have the bully pulpit and they are able to go out there and demean police and therefore there’s constant rhetoric … dividing the police from the inner city community [which] creates more hatred.
"That rhetoric out there that we’re hearing from the Democratic side is making things a lot worse and dividing the police more and more from the inner city communities."
On Wednesday, a Milwaukee police officer was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire with a man wanted for drug and gun crimes.
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