Posted on 06/16/2018 4:18:24 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
“I’ve repeatedly asked LAPD cops if they’d ever heard of “Broken Windows”. Not one has ever answered in the affirmative.”
We have posters, who have defended shop lifters because they only stole a couple of hundred $’s or less.
“I’ve repeatedly asked LAPD cops if they’d ever heard of “Broken Windows”. Not one has ever answered in the affirmative.”
We have posters, who have defended shop lifters because they only stole a couple of hundred $’s or less.
If stealing under $200 is risk-free, you will see hundreds of shoplifters, each stealing under $200, but cumulatively driving the stores into bankruptcy.
“How much worse could it be?”
I have posted about how the counties in the Sacramento Area started their own prop 47 and its impact on people like me.
The American river runs through Sac County and had some wonderful parks you could use to park your vehicle to fish, hike or bike. The park was well patrolled, and theft from vehicles was basically unheard of.
That changed when Sac County went liberal and refuse to even come out to check when a vehicle was broken into and gear stolen.
The felons got so brave, they would cut off the catalytic converters from parked vehicles. Guides and others would return to their vehicles and have zero catalytic converters and other gear.
I stopped going there and stopped buying the parking pass.
This was replicated in liberal cities like Gay Frisco, and any parked car was target for theft with zero legal problems. Even out of town liberals stopped going to Gay Frisco due to their cars being broken into.
Now that problem is state wide with prop 47.
When the people were their own police, these problems did not exist.
At all.
The fate of violators was bleak.
Before dopers, it was drunks...and it’s still mostly drunks today, interspersed with crazy people.
Alcohol is still the cheapest drug. Millions are addicted to it.
It’s a scourge on society.
“they could do it by REDUCING the police budget, and using the money for more court and jail capacity. Plus, having a policy of not bothering productive citizens who happen to kill career criminals in self defense”
More police leads to higher crime. It’s an axiom.
The reasons are myriad, but the principal reason is that criminals are not imprisoned for the duration of their sentences, and many sentences are reduced.
And this is done to pay for more police and associated technical infrastructure/equipment.
The great lie is that the Police keep people safe. The Truth is that Prisons, Harsh Sentencing and Executions keep people safe, to the extent that government can.
Police keep the ruling elite safe.
That is fair input and I must say refreshingly unusual
coming from a Texas FRiend regarding California.
It is hard to gauge because we just don’t know where the
populace stands. The media in California is a microcosm
of the national MSM so we know that they are reluctant
to publish anything that shines the light of truth on
the extremely dominant Democrat controllers. Still there
are a few signs of a voter wake-up including the fact
that enough voters got Cox to the finals for November.
Yes, Cox needs to run on the crime issue. He also
needs to run on the negative effects of one party rule
when the ruling party owns the state media.
Throughout the world, the real reason for police is to put down rebellion against the ruling class. Whatever they accomplish beyond that is secondary.
Full time police are the "standing army" which the founders warned against. There were no police in the early Republic. There were sheriffs, but their power was based on their being able to call out the posse at need (and upon the willingness of the posse to respond). Criminals were captured by the armed citizenry.
There is so much trash in the parks, along the median dividers of highways, in parking lots and this comes from the trash homeless drug addicts supported by gov’t “leaders”.
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