Notoriously liberal West Hollywood had the brilliant idea of replacing police officers with unarmed “safety ambassadors.” Let’s take a peek at how that’s worked out during an assault in progress… https://t.co/Qa48aZ8z4o
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 28, 2023
Their tax dollars at work. Give me a beat cop with guts any day for any number of “safety ambassadors”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcwStO74Ghg
There are a number of vectors at work here. The main one is that the sort of people who end up on municipal councils in places like West Hollywood despise police officers* and the sort of people who seek to join the police force. They’re operating under the illusion that they do not need such people, and they’ll play let’s pretend for a good while, providing themselves with private security while local wage earners (whom they also despise) have to put up with the crime.
Note also that liberal politics in our time is driven by hostility and status-games. Vigorous law enforcement means that the sort of people who work as police officers (whom liberals despise) exercise authority over liberal mascots.
*An odd curlicue does present itself in West Hollywood in that a large fraction of the municipal council majority is composed of men who are rather fond of police officers in a certain way, just not in a way that incorporates respect for their vocation or would please the officers themselves.
”… providing themselves with private security while local wage earners (whom they also despise) have to put up with the crime.”
Art, I recall that during the height of the BLM stupidity of 2020 the Minneapolis city council members declared they felt unsafe because citizens—tired of the inevitable uptick in crime and violence that followed defunding police— had begun to say mean things about them.
So those council members voted themselves 24-hour private security. Which cost the Minneapolis taxpayers in excess of $5,000/day.
Honestly, it’s a miracle those city council tools didn’t have to dodge rotten tomatoes every time they appeared in public.
As for the useless “safety ambassadors” of WeHo, how much do you want to bet that they’re hired without much more in the way of qualifications beyond having the correct political views and being friends with/unemployed relative of a major donor to a city council member.
I’m miffed that neither of the two cross walking guards didn’t at the very least take off one of their stilettos and throw it at the perpetrator.
This is remarkable footage. Talk about useless.
They could of asked the perp for his cell phone number and sent him a nasty tweet. Maybe two nasty tweets!
“Honestly, it’s a miracle those city council tools didn’t have to dodge rotten tomatoes every time they appeared in public.”
That would require having excess cash available to buy the tomatoes which could be allowed to rot.