“If these trends continue, many more millions Americans will be out of work, creating a downward economic spiral The result could be civil unrest and chaos....”
....more and more, I see this as a possibility....just think of Katrina when police quit their posts, and within a day New Orleans was chaos....think it couldn’t happen?....think again.
There are two sections of my Preparedness Manual about lessons learned from both Katrina and the economic colapse of Argentinia.
http://www.mediafire.com/?gjdyyzmmf1x
New Orleans was chaos before the hurricane, it just wasn't under water. I lived in New Orleans in the seventies when the police went on strike. The crime rate went down. I agree with your premise, but New Orleans isn't the best example. That place was third world before the Hurricane.
Seriously, I say this as a person who lived there. The police force was totally irrelevant to life in New Orleans. I had three encounters with the police, there. Once, I was mugged. I reported it to the police. I'm not kidding on this. The mugger was more polite than the cop. The first thing he said to me was "Shut up. I'll ask the question, you answer it." No, I wasn't screaming or hysterical.
There was a wreck out in front of my house. My vehicle wasn't involved. A fairly good looking girl, drunk, ran a stop sign and hit a car with a pregnant woman and her husband. The girl was clearly drunk, she clearly ran the stop sign and hit the other vehicle. The cop made a date with her and refused to issue a ticket or arrest her.
I worked in a corporate office. I assisted a New Orleans cop in a dispute with one of our dealers, making an adjustment for him. He told me if I ever got a ticket to call him and he'd take care of it.
I met several New Orleans cops and I never met an honest one.
The press didn't report this a lot, but all those NO cops that supposedly walked off the job didn't really exist. Approximately 1/3rd of the NO cops weren't real people. Their paychecks were apparently deposited to shadow accounts but "no one could figure out where the money was going."