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The awful news out of Providence is a gut punch to every parent and patriot who still believes America’s campuses should be safe havens for honest learning and hard work. On December 13, law enforcement scrambled after a gunman opened fire at Brown University during finals week, leaving two students dead and nine wounded in a shocking attack on innocent young people.
What made the tragedy worse for families and the community was the chaotic and bungled investigation that followed — a man was detained and then released within hours after officials said evidence shifted the probe in a different direction. That public flip-flop, and the leaks that preceded it, left the city more frightened than reassured and invites the hard question: who is actually running the investigation?
Law enforcement deployed hundreds of officers, along with the FBI and ATF, chasing leads and sifting through surveillance footage, yet the shooter remains at large and the campus has been forced into an uneasy, watchful silence. Providence officials released video of a person of interest, asked residents for doorbell camera footage, and reportedly raided nearby locations — all the trappings of a major manhunt, but none of it inspiring confidence that the bureaucracy is getting results swiftly.
Fox News host Jesse Watters rightly called this a “botched job” on his primetime program, and he spoke for millions of Americans who are tired of spin, sloppy police work, and officials more concerned with optics than outcomes. When leadership hesitates, leaks names, or detains and releases people without clear justification, it undermines public trust and wastes precious time that could be used to catch killers.
This is not the time for hollow sympathy from a mayoral press conference or a campus statement promising to “review procedures.” It is time for accountability: whoever mismanaged tips, mishandled detentions, or let leaks escape must answer to victims’ families and the public. Conservative Americans know that security is not a talking point — it is basic duty, and failure must be treated as such.
We should also call out the policies and cultural rot that have hollowed out policing in many blue-run cities: defund-the-police rhetoric, weak prosecutions, and endless bureaucratic reviews have consequences, and the victims of those experiments are students and parents. If Providence and other Democratic-run cities want to stop these tragedies, they can start by restoring support for street cops, giving investigators clear authority, and cutting through the political noise that slows justice.
Hardworking Americans want competent policing, swift justice, and safe campuses where kids can study without fearing for their lives. Let Jesse Watters’ blunt words be a rallying cry: demand real results, insist on transparency, and vote for leaders who put public safety above political theater. Our children deserve nothing less.
