One of the fascinating things about Leftists is how quickly completely absurd ideas become gospel in their ranks. The latest absurd idea is defunding the police.
Now police of some sort as an institution are as old as Sumer. All civilizations need some sort of law enforcement mechanism. The recent riots gave us all a dramatic demonstration of why this is the case. No one’s life or property are secure otherwise. Such common wisdom is now considered racist on the Left. Thus we witness the hapless Leftist Mayor of Minneapolis being booed at a rally because he would not commit to defunding the Minneapolis police department. Nothing is more pathetic than a life long Leftist politician suddenly finding himself left behind by the ever changing Kaleidoscope that is the Leftist view of the world.
The Minneapolis City Council, taking note of what happened to the Mayor, has now proclaimed that they have a veto proof majority to abolish the Minneapolis police department. Go here to read about it. What does this mean in practice? Since this is almost entirely political posturing of the emptiest sort by completely irresponsible fools, it is hard to say. I could imagine they would be insane enough to try to have a major city without a police force, and I would await with baited breath the first time they sent out a social worker to bring in a rapist, or to see the Council Critters explain to businesses in Minneapolis why it was a good thing that their establishments were being plundered with impunity each night by thieves. Of course they could try the old political shell game of keeping the police but calling them something else, but I know that would not satisfy their loons on the Left who now appear to be calling the shots for the Democrat Party.
Each Democrat from Biden on down needs to be asked ceaselessly if they back defunding the police, and just what that means. Let’s hear over and over again how Biden, for example, wants the police to be trained to only shoot violent criminals, attempting to assault them, in the leg. (Hey, if it was good enough for the Lone Ranger on TV—) As a Republican, I do thank the crazies in the party of the Jackass for giving us such a wonderful gift in a presidential election year. Much appreciated lads and lasses! We couldn’t do all this without your ever helpful bouts of public insanity.
Defunding the police?! Hopefully Biden will endorse. Great issue for Trump.
No more police also means no more pandemic-inspired house arrests. Gotta admit, being as I live under the tyranny of Gov. Gretch, defunding the police and relying on private security is real tempting.
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It has already been established that the police are not obligated to protect the innocent or their property, and when seconds count, they are only minutes away.
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The more I think about it, this could be an excellent learning opportunity for the SJW crowd. Go get the local rapist. Heck, give her (social workers are usually women) a TigerLady. Lets see if the product lives up to the marketing hype.
De Blasio announced yesterday that he was reducing the budget for the police. It has to be worked out by July 2.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/de-blasio-nyc-to-cut-nypd-funding-shift-it-to-social-services.amp
Don, from a law perspective, what legal policing authority can a private security company or especially a social worker have? I would think that the concept of a police officer is throughly embedded in state laws.
Good question JFK. This is not a simple rebranding. Of course the whole thing is a ridiculous idea which I am sure will be ridiculously implemented, and I am certain that the Minneapolis City Council hasn’t spent a nanosecond contemplating the type of legal jeopardy this would place the City in, along with their minions who attempt to play act as police-lite. All I can safely predict is that people will die as a result of this attempt at make believe by elected officials.
I’m not sure that defunding or abolishing police is going to be a slam dunk move even in deep blue cities… because the police are unionized and those contracts aren’t easily, if ever, broken. Most likely their jobs will simply be shuffled around or given new titles; if they were all just fired there would be hell to pay from the police/fire unions and, by extension, other public employee unions. Which are, of course, a major source of support for urban Democrats…. then again, finding some way to get rid of all the unionized police might be a tempting solution to their unfunded pension liability problems (though it’s not going to do anything about the pension liabilities already owed to current and retired officers as of right now).
Since things are going the way of 1917 so well, maybe Minneapolis could call their new security force Cheka and move right into the New Red Terror.
Elaine, I don’t think the “deep blue” cities and states will respect those contracts and liabilities and there may be enough deep state judges out there that they may be right to not fear them.
Defunding the police?! Hopefully Biden will endorse. Great issue for Trump.
My wager is that about 90% of the people likely to vote Democratic in any given year are so feckless this witless abolish-the-police argy bargy will have no effect on their thinking at all. A generation ago, it would have cost them a quarter of their potential electorate. The political culture in this country is in a state of decay.
Not just the political culture.
Something made me think of Kristallnacht. So I looked it up to see who carried it out, thinking military , police .. who?
“…carried out by SA paramilitary forces…and civilians… The German authorities looked on without intervening…..
The pretext for the attacks
..response to one person murdered by a 17 year old Polish Jew