Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
When seconds count the Police aren’t allowed to respond because it might look bad?
It is likely no comfort to a child who is being beaten mercilessly that the police are pinned down by riotous conduct.
The Philly Police Commissioner is the former Chief of Police of Portland. She was appointed December 30, 2019.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/danielle-outlaw-philadelphia-police-commissioner-20191230.html
This is the Democratic Party.
If I was a leftist, I’d fight tooth and nail against any thing that might actually improve relations between the community and police.
Rank-and-file LEOs tend to be conservative. Therefore, they must be marginalized, their prestige diminished, they must be demonized since they cannot be co-opted.
What’s more, the chaos that attends dismantling policing can be useful to the left. Defunding police means those tax dollars can be funneled to the left’s friends and campaign contributors— which is precisely what happened in my city, where tens of millions from the police budget were given to Planned Parenthood, among others.
And is it paranoid for me to wonder if these ruthless leftists aren’t hoping that, in the inevitable chaos that comes with destroying policing, communities will turn in desperation to any group that can restore order? Will we start to see antifa/BLM suddenly start offering their services where police are driven out?
Why should they? If they respond to a call, it risks ruining their own life.
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This situation reminds of an anecdote that Bernard Nathanson, MD mentioned in his book Hand of God. Although Dr. Nathanson performed thousands (by his own account) of abortions, he was a good, conscientious doctor who actually cared about his patients or so his nurses told him, and there was concern that the new abortionists were people who barely graduated from medical school.
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That doesn’t surprising to me. My father told me that before abortion was legal, family doctors and og/gyns took care of “missed periods” for their patients.
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I would assume that this wasn’t a big part of their practice, but it happened. And I would further assume that the vast majority of those not-very-common procedures probably occurred when the fetus was very small, very fragile, easily destroyed, and very difficult to piece together to see the tiny arms, legs, and head. But the doctors probably knew what they were doing, and even if they did it every now and then, it wasn’t something they went to med school for and wasn’t a part of the practice they enjoyed.
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But then the Sexual Revolution happened and there were lots of “missed periods” that needed to be dealt with. A “good, conscientious doctor” could now refer his patients to the abortionist down the street at Planned Parenthood rather than soil his own hands.
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I have heard that the quality of people going into The Police is falling, and I would assume vilification of the profession has a lot to do with that. I remember another anecdote by an abortionist who complained that society looked down on them (true), but expected them to be around to do the “dirty work” that society wanted (also true). Who wants to go into a profession like that? I met an ex-abortion worker at a pro-life event once. I had never seen such a shattered person.
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So if the police don’t want to take calls that might end up in destroying their own life, I totally get it.
It would be hard to believe if it didn’t keep happening all over the country.
Gun sales are going to be through the roof for years.
Dale, you’re right— even if communities came to their senses tomorrow, it will still be years before the damage done can be reversed.
In my own city, our city council slashed the police budget by 1/3 overnight. Citizens had no voice in the decision—(polls showed over 70% opposed the defunding)—nor were we consulted re: the reapportionment of the funds looted from the PD budget.
Part of the destruction of our police department was simply eliminating the training of new police. The entire cadet class is gone, with no one in the pipeline to replace our already understaffed police— and now it will be years before we can hope to repair the damage.
Predictably, crime in my own city has increased to the point it’s made national news. As of July this year, our homicide rate has increased almost 70% over last year— and the year is only half over!
Believe me, I’m thrilled to go to the polls to vote for Trump, but I am equally hot to vote against every single incumbent city councilman on the damn ballot.
[E]ven if communities came to their senses tomorrow, it will still be years before the damage done can be reversed.
Try decades. Assuming they recover at all.
@DJH
Unfortunately police candidate quality standards are falling. I graduated from a 4 year university and did a full term with the Peace Corps in SE Asia. I was able to pick up Vietnamese and Thai (can hold a conversation). Got back to US and applied for the police academy in a large CA city. I got through all the steps and scored high marks on the (easy) written, math and physical exams. When I got to the last step, committee interview, it was relaxed and I didn’t sense that I would be turned down. Unfortunately I was turned down. A few weeks later I saw one of my cohorts and he ended up being chosen, except he’s some young 20 year old with only a high school diploma to his name and worked in fast food for a few years prior to applying for the police.
One of my old professors from college told me that I was “too qualified”