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Democratic policies are responsible for the national surge in crime and deadly ambushes of officers, a top police union official said, warning that frequent release of violent offenders and new restrictions on law enforcement are certain to make matters worse.

"I would say that most police officers don't believe that Joe Biden is on their side," Fraternal Order of Police National Vice President Joe Gamaldi told the "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show on Wednesday.

He criticized Democratic policies from the national stage down to the local level for harming and hampering officers.

Gamaldi, a Houston police sergeant, especially blasted Chicago's new rule, instituted by Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot, that prohibits officers from chasing down suspects involved in misdemeanors.

"Just when I think that they can't coddle criminals any more than they do, they come out with a policy like this. Just when I think they can't neuter our ability to enforce the law, they come out with something like this," Gamaldi said, adding that it sends a clear message to criminals "that all you have to do is run from the police and we're not going to chase you."

Gamaldi explained that the criminal justice policies in blue-ran cities ultimately harm minority communities the most.

"When you have these people pushing these horrific policies, they don't give a damn about the community. It's agenda over people," he told editor-in-chief John Solomon and co-host Amanda Head.

He blasted the cities with record-murder rates, New York, Atlanta, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. Line-of-duty police officer deaths hit a record high in 2021, with ambush-style attacks up 115% from 2020.

Gamaldi specifically singled out Los Angeles, where District Attorney George Gascon came under fire recently after two officers were ambushed and slain in broad daylight by a man who was out on probation for felony firearm possession.

"Our communities are fed up. They're pissed off. They want safe streets," Gamaldi said, stressing that citizens will hold soft-on-crime politicians "accountable at the ballot box," shown by how Gascon is currently facing a recall.

The union leader’s broadside came the same day former Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan warned about the political liabilities of Democrat border policies.

Morgan, who served under both the Trump and Obama administrations, told the "John Solomon Reports" podcast on Wednesday that he is not just concerned about the Biden administration's "wide open" border policies empowering criminal drug cartels.

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