Ex-Los Angeles Sheriff blasts wokeness crippling citys wildfire response: Disaster is not the fires, its this ideology

Former high-profile Los Angeles city officials say the disorganized response to wildfires engulfing the city prove how “stupid this whole woke religion” is.Former Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and ex County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told The Post they are dismayed by the looting which is taking place and mismanagement of city services which allowed the fire department to be defunded, reservoirs unfilled and fire hydrants to run dry.“The degree of mismanagement is epic.It’s incompetence married with poisonous ideology, said Villanueva, who was sheriff between 2018 and 2022.“Both the LA Sheriff’s department and the LAPD are missing more than 3,000 cops because of what happened during what I call the ‘Summer of Love’ after George Floyd’s death,” he said.

Floyd died in 2020 at the hands of police, prompting nationwide protests and movements to defund departments.“All of this is deliberate.Even the county Board of Supervisors are all about ‘care first, jail last’ when it comes to criminals.”Three wildfires which have been burning since Jan.

7 have destroyed thousands of structures and left 88,000 who had to evacuate displaced.While residents come to terms with their losses, at least 40 have been busted for looting from the smoldering remains, including at least one person who dressed as a firefighter to blend in.“You wonder why there’s looting? Why wouldn’t there be? The criminals know at least up until now that probably [no penalty or jail time] was going to happen to them.”Amid the fire response, a video of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s $300,000-a-year Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) boss, Deputy Chief Kristine Larson, emerged where she talked about whether female fire fighters were strong enough to rescue men from burning buildings.In it she stated the man would have “got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire,” which some interpreted as victim blaming, while others felt i...