Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. (AP)

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said there “is no police brutality in America,” only “isolated” acts of violence the liberals and the media exploit for political reasons, adding that the “progressive” policies of the left have “failed to fix poverty” and the countless other social cancers they promised to cure.

There is “no police brutality in America,” but there is “a truth problem,” said Sheriff Clarke in a recent commentary in The Hill.

“It starts with political insiders deciding to take aim at our police forces to distract from the abysmal failure of liberal policies to fix the horror of life in our inner-city black communities,” said the sheriff.

(In the video below, Sheriff Clarke discusses police brutality on the Oct. 26 edition of Fox & Friends.)

“Progressives can’t let the public see the truth of how they have failed to fix poverty, to fix families, to fix schooling, or to fix health,” said Sheriff Clarke. “They’ve taken your tax dollars but they have nothing to show but broken homes and broken communities. They’ve promised that government can fix everything, but it hasn’t.”

“What we have on our hands is a classic cover-up,” he said.

Liberals and “the media scour the country for reprehensible but rare times when police act in the wrong,” said the sheriff. “It happens, there’s no excuse, and the victims have every right to seek remedy through our justice system and to air their grievances in the public forum our Constitution affords them.”

“I sympathize with them and I take the burden of these rare events on my own shoulders,” he said. “But the term ‘police brutality’ is a lie. These isolated, terrible incidents that I work every day to ensure never happen are something quite different. The correct term is ‘savage physical violence.’”

Savage physical violence describes the unreasonable use of force against everyday citizens,” said Sheriff Clarke. “It’s wrong, it’s unlawful, and it’s unacceptable. It’s also rare, and while deplorable, it is not systemic in nature in the way that the left would like to scare Americans, particularly in the inner cities, into thinking.”

In conclusion, he said. “It is the failed policies of the left you cover up when you continue to use the term ‘Police Brutality’ when it’s their policies of dependency and manipulation that are to blame.”

David A. Clarke Jr., a Democrat, was elected to a 4-year term as the sheriff of Milwaukee County in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In those elections he won, respectively, with 74%, 78%, 74%, and 79% of the vote.