Justin Phillips, the SF Chronicle’s race columnist, wrote an essay for the paper a few days ago that’s nothing short of a declaration of war against the police.

Sheng Thao is not popular among her fellow East Bay mayors. It’s not so much that they dislike her personally, as the city she leads: Oakland, which is widely perceived as a seedbed of criminals and crime. If you’re the mayor of, say, San Leandro, Emeryville, Berkeley or Hayward, you know that bad people from Oakland routinely pillage your city and then return to the safety of Oakland, where they’re pretty sure they’ll be left alone by a regime sympathetic to them.

Jack, Rich and I started the Coalition for a Better Oakland three years ago. We had met on nextdoor.com (ironic, since I’m now permanently banned for being politically incorrect) and quickly discovered we were all upset by the direction Oakland was going. So we got together on Jack’s deck and invented this thing.

There’s an old term, “scofflaw,” that refers to a person who refuses to obey the law. The Chronicle reported over the weekend about a scofflaw named Stephon Fowler, a drug addict and dealer who plies his trade on Sixth Street, arguably the worst street in San Francisco.

There are a lot of spurious anti-cop organizations out there. They claim to be “fighting for social justice” but in reality they’re contributing to the outrageous explosion of crime in Oakland by excusing bad behavior and instead blaming cops and “White supremacy” for all these robberies and attacks. Nothing gets me angrier than stupidity like this: