I'm John Bachelor with Victor Davis-Henson, the Hoover Institution writing about

DEI that a British reporter is saying we don't know what it means but it's not working all that well.

We can't tell whether it's positive.

We come now to an aspect of the ideology which is defund the police.

Headline, DC police union set to declare city crime a

crisis in the hearing of the House of Representatives story after story out of DC a modern and extremely attractive city of carjackings during the day of violence rampant at night

Defund the police that was part part of the DEOI ideology, but it's not working in any of the large cities.

Has that been recognized, Victor? We have a couple of minutes.

Yeah, I don't think anybody's all advocating for that anymore. The crime, the murder rate shot up, violent assault shot up.

The idea was a lot of African American prosecutors were elected, a lot of African American mayors were elected predominantly in our major cities and

they defunded the police or they reinterpreted the criminal code and did not charge people with felonies and the victims were African American

constituencies who were preyed on by gangs and queer criminals. And it's not safe in some of these communities and I think we're going to see some kind of

correction in the fall elections in these cities. I don't think they're going to and we already see it John in

San Francisco with some ballot measures people say this is not what can't go on

won't go on and this is unsustainable.

And the defund the police is intimately integrated into DEI.

Does that mean we've hit peak DEI?

What is your measure?

I don't know yet. The universities are having a problem because they let people in without

the meritocratic standards that they said, not you or I, they said were absolutely important to be able to do Harvard or Yale or

Princeton, Stanford work.

And now they're all quietly trying to reinstate the SAT and comparative ranking of high schools and their GPAs because apparently when you let

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