Posted on 10/25/2021 3:47:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Replacing 30-50 cops per year requires a significant investment of time and money. Replacing 400+ seems a Herculean for a well-managed and united city – and nearly impossible in the chaos created by the Seattle and Washington political establishment.
While the ticking of the clock exposes problems for major US cities, the calendar also remains far from friendly to the safety of their citizens and businesses. As unprecedented numbers of police officers opt to resign, retire – or even face termination - protesting working conditions and the vaccine mandate, many of America’s cities race towards lawlessness.
A recent conversation with a retired Seattle police officer paints a grim picture. According to the nearly thirty-year law enforcement veteran, the mismanagement of Seattle’s police force could take a generation to repair.
During his time, he approximated 30-50 officers retired or resigned each year, and roughly the same number of new recruits replaced them. Yet, the challenge of massive numbers leaving is compounded by the time to replace each sworn officer.
For example, the police department issues a notice about upcoming testing for the force - which takes several days (weeks) to accomplish. Once the initial testing is complete, the police department has a pool of candidates to take to the next level.
“When I tested in 1992, I was one of 4,700 that showed up.
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When the schools are teaching victimhood there will need to be many more police to handle the “victims” who feel justified in getting retribution.
Unless the cops elect to give them space, and I think that is likely. In that case, it will never end.
I would suggest both Seattle and Portland are destined now to attain Detroit-status and be crippled by the flow of industry/commerce out of the city limits. Within three years, neither will be able to pay their normal bills and will start some descent into financial chaos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilantism
Three things will begin to happen in cities that have lost control. Crime will rise, law abiding citizens will leave(taking their tax base with them), and some form of vigilantism will come into play.
Lest anyone think of “vigilantism” as modeled by citizens rounding-up horse thieves in the Old West, it’s more likely to take the form of the vigilantism currently practiced in certain neighborhoods of Chicago.
Gangs shooting each other while women and children barricade themselves inside at night?
it’s more likely to take the form of the vigilantism currently practiced in certain neighborhoods of Chicago
I agree to a point but when it gets too bad the wealthy will do what they do in San Francisco, hire their own security. The poor will form groups and patrol their own area.
How hard is it to hire new workers? Denver just held a job fair hoping for 5000 to show up, but got only 100 ; Locally here a landscape company held job fair (with coffee, donuts, and sandwiches) to get 50 guys to shovel snow at $20 starting, but got one who didn’t bother to fill out his application all the way and left.
the wealthy will... hire their own security. The poor will form groups and patrol their own area.
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Hold perps until the cops arrive? How? At gun point? For how many hours? Only to have some judge release the perp an hour later?
Hold perps until the cops arrive? How? At gun point? For how many hours? Only to have some judge release the perp an hour later?
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No, they will (and I am not advocating this) kill them. That is what vigilantes do.
No, they will (and I am not advocating this) kill them. That is what vigilantes do.
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Of course those dead perps have friends or fellow gang members which will come to seek revenge and so the neighborhood wars begin. Old folks and children dead first.
From Frederic Bastiat, in his essay 'The Law':
“It has been used to destroy its own objective. It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect.”
“The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.”
Ummm. . . . I don’t think so.
In the words of Frank Zappa:
You know that five in every four
Just won’t amount to nothin’ more
Gonna watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor
Only today, songs have become
. . . complaints against the police.
Of course those dead perps have friends or fellow gang members which will come to seek revenge and so the neighborhood wars begin. Old folks and children dead first.
And how is that different then it is in Chicago today?
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Mostly gang guys shooting each other over drug and turf wars. No cops means they will move further into low crime residential areas were they are not present today. The fewer cops, the larger the gang territory becomes ; liberal judges become more encouraged to let more gang bangers off due to their minority status and other woke considerations.
There’ll be a lot of that.
We are seeing it take place by the day the media approves it until they find out what the rules really are about freedom of the press.
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