Neighborhoods should pay for the police protection they USE - no more - no less...
City residents forced to support police forces that spend 90% of their time, resources, and collective tax dollars dealing with the black community is a mistake.
It’s wrong. Wrong for blacks - wrong for the rest of us. It’s a system that treats blacks like they’re children. (It’s why middle class blacks leave the community when they get a few dollars.)
It’s wrong - AND the incentives created bring about the rage we’re seeing in the streets of Ferguson. And no, this rage has nothing to do with slavery. Or the civil war. The kids on the streets never lived under Jim Crow - they never lived under segregation. That’s liberal elite excuse stuff. The black community needs to pay for their own police protection. They need to be treated like adults. Held to the same standards Tea Party members would be held to if we rioted.
Blacks need to control their own communities on their own dimes. Correct incentives put black adults in charge of the black community. And it removes the power of white liberal elites and black poverty pimps.
If the black community starts PAYING for their own police protection - or ZERO police protection if they want to save money - it’s their call. Their responsibility. They can hire all black cops - or NO COPS whatsoever. Each ‘community’ makes their own call. That treats blacks as grown ups... Which will stop the rage. Which will stop the violence. People want their “police tax’ lower? They’ll stop seeing criminals as ‘cool’.
Here’s “Homeland” - ignoring the real violence of Ferguson - and fantasizing about conservatives doing Ferguson type violence... because Homeland hates conservatives ... off topic - but interesting.
Clueless bastards. They really live up to their creepy name.
GOPJ, you’re spot-on.
Your solution is good. It’s the putting into practice of it - the people themselves demanding it - that needs to happen, and there is not enough responsible leadership to make it so.
But it won’t happen, because too much “use” can be made of the situation as it stands by a few really unscrupulous people. You have the Sharptons, Jesses, and others that profit from the chaos and make a living off it.