The vice chairman of the California Republican Party blasted the state’s liberal leaders on Thursday after a bunker in a homeless encampment was discovered in San Jose.
Roughly $100,000 in stolen goods was found in the homeless bunker. Five suspects were arrested in connection with the stolen items while one suspect remains at large.
During an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Peter Kuo said he was not shocked by the discovery of the bunker.
“Really it’s not a surprise simply because the California legislators have been allowing these things to happen,” he said. “They are calling on the city officials to step up the enforcement. But the city officials, on the other hand, turn blind eyes on these criminals.”
Kuo, who has lived in San Jose for more than 40 years, added that the state’s Republican Party is planning to make crime a central issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections to show California residents the impact of liberal policies.
“We are taking this into a campaign issue in November this year to sort of wake up the residents here in San Jose who have been sleepwalking until the fire is at the front door, so to speak,” he explained.
Crime has surged to an all-time high, thanks to the Biden administration’s “politicization of law enforcement,” according to FBI special agent and former Navy SEAL Jonathan T. Gilliam.
“I try to stay neutral when I look at these things and say that this is a reason or that’s a reason without the politics, but the reality is, and law enforcement is becoming more and more beholden to leftist mayors and governors and even the president,” Gilliam said during an interview on “Fox & Friends First” earlier this year.
Axios reported that the FBI was missing 40 percent of crime data in 2021 since law enforcement agencies have failed to send voluntary statistics. This is a 15% increase from 2020.
“The problem is, if somebody is subscribed to the Democrat or liberal way, they are 100% across the board, local, state and federal, the exact same way in that they handle law enforcement and crime,” Gilliam said. “And as we’ve seen, they do nothing effectively even after this last shooting in Texas.
“They’ve come up with nothing that is going to be successful in stopping anything, so it’s just going to get worse,” he added.
