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“Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.”

I thought they’d given up on that; once the decision was made not to “harass” illegals, you’d be waving through a good number of drivers in ANY city.

Cities died because there was no reason to go or live there anymore; as manufacturing diappeared, fewer people worked in cities, and as the nature of shopping changed, fewer people had any reason to go there at all. At this point moving to a city is equivalent to adopting a public school teacher, a cop, a carrer politician, and five members of a permanent underclass “family” - you have to pay/clothe/house/feed all of them. No wonder companies and taxpayers have fled...

I thought they’d given up on that; once the decision was made not to “harass” illegals, you’d be waving through a good number of drivers in ANY city."

Not here in Alabama. We have the toughest immigration laws in the country now...Arizona is 2nd toughest.

Eric Holder is sueing the state because of our immigration laws.

Cities died because there was no reason to go or live there anymore; as manufacturing diappeared, fewer people worked in cities, and as the nature of shopping changed, fewer people had any reason to go there at all. At this point moving to a city is equivalent to adopting a public school teacher, a cop, a carrer politician, and five members of a permanent underclass “family” - you have to pay/clothe/house/feed all of them. No wonder companies and taxpayers have fled...

True, it ain't 1955 anymore, you can get what you need outside the city, food, cars, gas, healthcare (until Bammycare sets in), police scanners, guns, etc. Most people have cars too so they can go anywhere to get anything. AS my cousin said, "if you do not have a car and driver's license, you're ghetto, dude."

I would recommend one other thing, get a police scanner, preferably one that can trunk track and get digital (APCO-25 standard), but any will do, better than nothing. At least you can monitor most local cops, fire, amateur radio, medical and in some cases, military. IIRC, I've talked to a few old timers who seem to remember that due to the race riots of the late 1960's, the public started to get interested in monitoring police and such as VHF/UHF on the multi-band radios and early scanners at that time.