[jsanders2001]

They got exactly what they wanted. Now when they need to be defended from their own they may be SOL. They own it.

[knarf]

Trump needs to be as vocal about supporting cops as he is about strengthening the military

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Seriously, I doubt many cops fall for this, and those that do are probably wound too tight to be cops.

All uniformed police are fully aware that they are under tight rules, any variance from which could get them disciplined, fired, or prosecuted. And they could even get nailed when they *hadn’t* done anything wrong, but just become a target of some loud mouthed agitator.

They know also that the civilian government and even their own leaders don’t have their back, so they have to rely on their peers and their union, without which their jobs would be intolerable.

So the best advice for cops is to work in a place with a conservative government. Liberals won’t support them, and see them as both “the enemy” and easy scapegoats.

[Smokin' Joe]

There is another Ferguson Effect. The one no one is talking about, but is evident in the growing hostility of those whose lives, businesses, and general safety and order are threatened every time a group is emboldened by yet again 'getting away with' behaviour which would not ordinarily be tolerated in any civil society, merely by virtue of their skin color.

Those who harbor that growing enmity are still constrained by the laws which they deem civilized, but that once hearty veneer of civility is wearing perilously thin.

When that veneer wears through, the other Ferguson Effect will become evident. Those pent up hostilities will be released.

The anger festering over decades of kowtowing to the demands of a now allegedly aggrieved 'class', who ever push the boundaries seeking more, demanding others treat them better than they can for themselves afford, whose idea of equality is extracting retribution from those who have not wronged them, and extracting that via government agency in a sort of reverse apartheid--that anger will be released.

When enough sons and daughters have suffered enough deprivation because of the blatantly skewed order of things as they now are, that anger will burst forth.

It will take no major wound: merely a pinprick; a final straw.

When that hostility breaks loose, there will come a juggernaut of retribution.

There will be no peaceful resolution once critical mass is reached. The patience and long suffering currently being taken for weakness will spring forth in a font of fury of biblical proportions.

I am not advocating this course of action, merely warning that this second Ferguson Effect exists. If it kicks in, it will bring the whirlwind on the heads of those who have sown the wind.