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Posted on 06/30/2020 8:49:40 AM PDT by rktman
In the wake of the George Floyd riots, police are being demonized across the country, each and every officer now being held responsible for the action of its least-worthy members.
They're also being targeted for 'defunding' as if any society on earth could exist without some measure of policing without turning into Lord of the Flies.
It's getting little coverage, but the stories are dribbling out in rapidly about a collective call for help: Some 272 New York police officers retired in the wake of George Floyd riots, a 49% spike over the year earlier. Seattle was similar - its forces are operating at just 65% capacity. Minneapolis has seen at least seven resignations. Joel Pollak, at Breitbart News has an astonishing report about police demoralization in Los Angeles:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The mayors pretend to watch their back, the cops pretend to show up to work....
I know a couple cops in LA. They told me their new acronym for proactive enforcement is FIDO. Eff it, drive on.
It is trivial to point out that the state - the government - claims a monopoly on force. Even George Washington recognized that at its base, government is nothing but force. Ultimately, the police are merely the agents of government, call them what you will.
Without force, it is meaningless to even imagine government.
People who want to abolish the police don’t really want to abolish force and coercion, they want to remove impediments to their use force and coercion against others.
I’ll have to ask my LEO neighbor if they’re taking the same stance in our town. Wouldn’t blame them.
I know a couple cops in LA. They told me their new acronym for proactive enforcement is FIDO. Eff it, drive on.
FIDO
Thanks to Yogafist for the new acronym above.
“t is trivial to point out that the state - the government - claims a monopoly on force. Even George Washington recognized that at its base, government is nothing but force. Ultimately, the police are merely the agents of government, call them what you will.
Without force, it is meaningless to even imagine government.”
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“All power flows from the barrel of a gun”
~ Mao Tsetung
Police responding to a report of shots fired, or any other call in bad neighborhoods, may want to form a posse first, and arrive in numbers, in case it’s an ambush. When cops respond, it will later, and in numbers, and probably from several directions, so they can’t be picked off one at a time.
This BLM stupidity is only going to further militarize the police and slow response time, and increase the number of inner city murders.
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