We do have a police state....it’s still in a nascent level
of existence but it is real, it is growing and it is spreading. And yes....there are some areas where LEO do
fear to tread alone or in small numbers those areas are
well known, well demarcated and of only marginal political
clout. Yes the usual race baiters preen and prance whenever
something they don’t like happens there and such activity
gets the lions share of media attention because it’s good
for ratings. What happens far more often, is minimally reported if mentioned at all is the never ending abuse
heaped on the typical citizen going about his daily business who just happens to cross the path or catch the
eye of a sociopath pinned to a badge.
“These gangs are not afraid of the police, the police are afraid of the gangs. “
If the police are afraid of gangs they better be afraid of armed citizens ten fold if they try to confiscate their legally owned weapons.
This is the first I heard of this. Kind of sad, for me, because when I was stationed on a couple ships homeported in Norfolk back in the early and mid 80’s, I used to go to Military Circle all the time. But it is also the same up in Maryland. The big mall in Waldorf is a dangerous place. A couple malls - like Landover and Iverson - used to be great places to go but the urban blight suffocated those places long ago. Springfield Mall in Virginia use to be a great place to go but is now crime ridden. The main sad part is it seems that all stories involving crime in malls always involve Holders people.
An armed citizen with a gun can’t be trusted. (A lie denied by OUR Second Amendment, dammit!)
But send that very same citizen to a “Police Academy” for a few weeks and suddenly he (or she) is the ONLY ONE who can be trusted to carry deadly force on the streets. Really?
I trust my armed deer-hunting buddies one hell of a lot more than I do most police. I’ve never heard of a crew of deer hunters kicking down somebody’s door, shooting their dog and holding the family at gunpoint all for a search warrant that could have been easily served after a knock on the front door.
For myself the greatest fear of a Police State is not that the police won’t enforce the laws impartially and equally. It’s that the Police themselves will be taken over, either internally or through their ‘political masters’ by the very people who are inherently lawless through deed and inclination.
Once that is a ‘fait accompli’ then both the lawless as well as the police and their ‘political masters’ will view and justifiably so, that the ‘law abiding sheep’ are ready to be fleeced and sent to the stew pot.
The only way to stop that from happening is the hidden sheepdogs in the population that are prepared to come snarling out with blood and retribution in their hearts to do battle with the wolves that want to prey upon the ‘sheep’ aka law-abiding population.