The head of the New York City Detectives’ Endowment Association has stated that the purpose of this gathering is to “send a message” to the government.
Beginning in New York City, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, will go on a pro-police tour to locations where police may not feel they have the backing of local governments, such as blue-led cities like New York.
On the first day of his visit, DeSantis will stop on Staten Island, a predominantly red borough, to meet with police officers and union leaders at a café. The governor will meet with local police officers in the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington and the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, according to a statement sent to Fox News Digital by the governor’s campaign.
On Monday, New York City Detectives’ Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo will preside over the ceremony. Law enforcement has been put in jeopardy, he said in an interview with Fox News Digital, because New York’s bail reform laws eliminated cash bail requirements for many criminal cases.
To “send a message back to some of our political people that the laws that they have established in the state of New York are not working — particularly the bail reform legislation and it is putting my members, detectives, and officers, as well as the public,” he added, law enforcement officials would meet. The previous several years have seen too much of a leftward tilt.
To reduce crime in Florida and the state as a whole, DeSantis will likely highlight his efforts to overhaul the state’s bail system and impose harsher punishments on sexual offenders.
According to the governor’s office, $5,000 signing incentives were offered to cops willing to migrate from blue states last year as part of the most aggressive recruitment package in Florida’s history to attract law enforcement professionals.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been branded a “homophobe” by Illinois’ Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, in response to the uproar surrounding DeSantis’ scheduled visit to Chicago last week.
“He doesn’t reflect the ideas of the people of Illinois,” Pritzker said on WGN 9. “He is the antithesis of that statement. He is prejudiced against gays and people of color.”
Despite widespread speculation, DeSantis has not yet confirmed whether or not he would seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024.