Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show Podcast.

Welcome back in Clay Travis Bucks Xton Show. We are rolling through the Wednesday edition of the

program. Join now by Heather McDonald. She is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a

contributing editor at City Journal and the author of the best-selling book War on Cops.

Heather, thanks for joining us. I got to say, your data and your analysis of that data,

which I have read a lot distributed through the Wall Street Journal editorial page,

has been so fabulously well done. Thank you for the work that you have produced and also

for the impact you have had in terms of helping to fight back against the onslaught

of defund the police. Why do you think there is such antipathy towards police? How do we end it?

And will we ever end it? Well, thank you so much. We end it by being realistic about

crime in this country. The Americans are turning their eyes away from the

civilizational breakdown in the inner city that is leading to these utterly barbaric and sane

drive-by shootings that are taking every single day. Literally dozens of black lives.

The country doesn't want to confront that and instead we're blaming the messenger. We're

blaming the cops. They cannot fight crime without having a disparate impact, racially.

Everything that's happening today in the criminal justice system, Clay and Buck, can be explained

by two words, disparate impact. We are unwinding criminal law enforcement. We're unwinding

incarceration because you cannot enforce the law without having a disparate impact

on black criminals. Why are we doing that? Why do we want to enforce the law to save black lives?

There's no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter

than the police. And what we've seen in the time since the George Floyd race riots,

the police have backed off. The result was utterly predictable. The largest one-year increase

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