Posted on 06/03/2020 8:27:08 AM PDT by karpov
The “broken-windows” school of policing says that you can help maintain public order by taking care of even small examples of disorder—such as fixing broken windows. Liberals scorned that policy in the last decade as somehow racist. Well, in recent days we’ve learned that America’s left does have a broken-windows policy: Let rioters break enough windows and loot enough stores and maybe their righteous anger will be satisfied.
That’s certainly how it looked when the June sun rose Tuesday over the broken glass, looted storefronts, burnt-out cars, and vandalized buildings in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Madison and other American cities. Public officials let rioters exploiting the memory of George Floyd run wild in the streets. Even after nearly a week of violence, these and other liberal Democratic cities let lawless radicals harass and plunder almost at will.
In downtown St. Louis, four police officers were shot after midnight. “I believe some coward randomly shot at the police line,” said police chief John Hayden. A 7-Eleven was looted and set afire, but firefighters were deliberately slowed by protesters in responding. “We had people lying down in the street” and trash cans were placed as obstacles to block fire trucks, said fire chief Dennis Jenkerson.
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What all these cities have in common is that they are led by Democrats who seem to have bought into the belief that the police are a bigger problem than rampant disorder. They are either cowed by their party’s left, or they agree that America is systemically racist and rioting is a justified expression of anger against it. They offer pro forma disapproval of law breakers but refuse to act to stop them.
They should recognize that widespread lawlessness is not helping their cause.
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They’re encouraging it so they can later blame the President and then ask for a financial bailout.....all in the plan. all in the plan.
Unable?
They don’t WANT THE CHAOS TO STOP!...............
Not unable, unwilling. The goal was to maintain the chaos through yesterday, so show that in-person voting was too dangerous and we need to transition to an all mail voting system for the fall Presidential election.
Yeah, not unable - UNWILLING.
I certainly hope there is no financial bailout of any kind. Let the cities die.
Just like “The Purge”....
President Trump can and should bar all federal dollars to cities that seem unable or unwilling to stop these riots. That should give thm the needed impetus to act.
Why stop the destruction of their own cities when they get part of the take.
I couldn't care less.
ditto
The urban Africans must be pandered, kowtowed to. The urban African politicos control the cities and are absolutely necessary to controlling the country.
If the blue city African politicos become in any way disgruntled, the cities will be lost and thus will America be lost.
Burning churches and police stations and Macy’s and Target is placation and kowtowing at the highest order. It is ordinary left wing action....... spending others money and redistributing the wealth to those who are in fact unequal. Looting Nike stores is the best and most satisfying form of wealth redistribution possible
If the cities are lost, America is lost.
Unable?
UNWILLING.
They are ENablers, always - doesn’t matter if they themselves ARE the power, they’re always about “fighting the power”!
They (Dems) have caculated that American cities and people being attacked benefits them somehow, so they let all the chaos go on.
Wake up America!
I wish it were that simple. This is about purposely creating chaos for the purpose of regime change. I believe parts of American government are creating a “color revolution” right here. They’ve had a lot of practice elsewhere.
Oklahoma Revised Statutes, 21 OS 733, defines Justifiable Homicide as: "or lawfully suppressing any riot;"
Not that their unicorns and rainbow world is collapsing their fallback position is to blame whitey.
Perhaps this is why conservatives don’t want democrats in our cities and towns
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