The consequences of the ‘Ferguson effect’ are already appearing. The main victims of growing violence will be the inner-city poor.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-nationwide-crime-wave-1432938425
The obvious common sense solution is more money, just not money for those racist police departments, naturally.
Not only has Obama managed to re start the Cold War with Russia (an impressive feat by itself) but now he is going to take the nation back to a 1970s level of inner city crime and violence.
Gotta hand it to him. He’s good at what he does.
Drama sells. It’s the American way.
Meanwhile: one for the good guys!!
http://www.newswest9.com/story/29195071/owner-of-kwik-kash-shoots-kills-robbery-suspect
No protests here BTW…
Cloward-Piven Strategy:
Give it five years. Wait till the new generation of cops are on the beat. Most of the new guys now are… Aaahhhh… Eeeewwww… things will get worse. People have asked for professional clerks to respond and document a crime scene that is what now walks through the door. We are slowly losing the ones who tried to take criminals off the streets before they committed serious crimes. I have been seeing this more and more. I am watching more and more good guys leave. Just wait I am really concerned( no sarcasm.)
This will inevitably lead to more cries for gun control, because hey, that’s the problem, right?
Just as I’ve said I refuse to give up my Constitutional rights for the acts of lunatics or sociopaths (i.e Sandy Hook or Columbine), likewise I refuse to do so for the acts of street-scum pieces of shit.
Could be the other way around you never know. It could blow up on them like last time and the elections. The dems got smoked because of it. Modt people read the head lines about the constant murders assaults and robberies. The poor live it. I would imagine many would want a gun.
Same here.
Same here.
When even the WSJ calls it “gun violence”, we are in serious trouble.
If the MSM and Progressives can’t even properly describe the problem, how can they have any chance of solving the problem. Their solutions of gun and cop control are going to do nothing but hurt the communities that they say they are tying to help.
Maybe I’m just in a rebellious/cantankerous mood tonight but I don’t give a shit who calls for what, or what their cries result in. “Created” criminals aren’t valid to me, and that includes myself.
Used to have a sigline that read “If you make me a criminal with the wave of a pen then I just might have to act like one”. Just sayin’…
We should make it illegal for felons to own firearms…
…maybe we should make murder illegal…
This worries me more than anything else.
Same thing’s been being said about the military (in general) for years. While I ‘feel’ the same as you (and others) do, I honestly do not believe that it is that dire. There will still be a burning desire within individuals to do the right thing and to do their jobs that nothing can extinguish. Though there numbers may ebb and flow, they will always be.
But I would think that there will be a movement of good cops away from the urban core to positions with less risk of violating protocols and fed guidelines? Sure, you’ll still get people with the calling, but I’d have to think that guys with families and careers won’t want to do a full career in the inner city.
Cities have become gentrified and safe, is that the first thing we see is that marginal neighborhoods, or nice neighborhoods in close proximity to Chiraq type neighborhoods will start to take a hit?
Ebb and Flow.
The Blue Falcons and Spotlight Rangers will show themselves for who they really are now. And yes, it will take wealthy neighborhoods being ‘sullied’ in order for people’s heads to be removed from their fourth point of contact.
ETA: I do NOT mean to imply that I in any way believe that ‘the po-po’ don’t care about ‘the po’.
Police will be reduced to “observe and report” to the extent possible and most major cities will adopt the Oakland approach where police no longer respond to a long list of crimes including grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism and such crimes will be reported on line.
Here is a list of “no response” crimes in Oakland.
burglary
theft
embezzlement
grand theft
grand theft:dog
identity theft
false information to peace officer
required to register as sex or arson offender
dump waste or offensive matter
discard appliance with lock
loud music
possess forged notes
pass fictitious check
obtain money by false voucher
fraudulent use of access cards
stolen license plate
embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
extortion
attempted extortion
false personification of other
injure telephone/ power line
interfere with power line
unauthorized cable tv connection
vandalism
administer/expose poison to another's
As a result the inmates run the asylum.
Guess I’ll have to start watching more “Death Wish” and “Taxi Driver.” Wonder if Times Square will devolve into the hooker infested concentration of porn shops and massage parlors it once was.
Now here is the scary part. Given the Obama damage he’s done already, I wonder what kind of parting gifts he has in mind. Most Presidents do the kind crap they’d normally get fired for as a last act including blatantly unpopular legislation, pardon’s of criminals and the like.