Posted on 09/21/2020 3:36:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A few weeks ago, the slogan was "defund the police" and hire more social workers. Now, the real threat to citizens in blue cities is who wants to work as a police officer?
Sadly, the left has accomplished what "defund the police" could not do. They have destroyed police forces by encouraging more and more officers to leave the force.
Over the weekend, Portland's Mayor Wheeler got a taste of what happens when you don't support the police. as we see in this post by Victoria Taft:
And now they are leaving. The cops, not the rioters. Nope, the county’s catch-and-release program for rioters sends these same criminals back out on the street in time for the next wave of rioting.And now Portland, Ore., has set a new and disturbing record. While law-abiding Portlanders depend on police now more than ever in the wake of more than 100 nights of riots, looting, arson, vandalism, and violence, there are now fewer and fewer cops willing to take the call.
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A well trained experienced police officer has very marketable skills.
It costs a department a hundred thousand plus to bring a officer to the point he can do the job on his own.
I don’t think the officers that vacate jobs in these failed cities will leave the profession. I think they will go to a location that is growing and where they are appreciated.
Yep, it is going to be very difficult for the police department in Portland to hire someone smart enough to do the job yet dumb enough to do it for the pay.
Check into N Nevada.
Washoe County & Douglas County could use more deputies
Any decent cop, any, can find a new and better job somewhere else where Law Enforcement is appreciated. UHaul / Budget is your friend.
I suppose there are some safe places to work in Nevada, but as an utterly corrupt state, run by Demorats, I’d have to pass.
Cities throughout the south (particularly in Florida) will have a vast number of potential hirees over the next couple of months. The lesser qualified folks? They will be passed over and probably end up as mall-cops.
But this brings one back to cities like Minneapolis....which will have to swing their benefit packages/pay upward, and probably have to terminate some city council folks before they solve their past issues.
As mean spirited as even I believe it is I hope with all my heart these towns a cities which have made the atmosphere so inhospitable to law enforcement get their just rewards and experience the inevitable consequences of the combination of lawless thugs and no one to reign them in.
May the pain and suffering be great of the anti police haters be great and long lasting.
Minneapolis was already having trouble hiring good cops. One of the four guys involved in the George Floyd incident was a 36 year-old rookie who was hired despite having a minor criminal record. That itself is a good enough indication of hiring problems, but the fact that a city like Minneapolis hired a WHITE MAN under these circumstances should be sounding alarm bells.
Under these conditions the good ones will leave first because they know they can get a job elsewhere.
The mediocre ones will hang on and obey stupid orders. It's harder for them to get a new job.
By doing this, they will increase the violence and chaos, creating a situation ripe for revolution.
You are not mean spirited. You are a realist. People in Portland and Minn. need to put on their adult pants and get ready for a bumpy ride. No one is going to rescue them.
-——law-abiding Portlanders-—
There arno law abiding portlanders. If there were actually such citizens, the city would not be pillaged burned and looted. If there were such law abiding citizens they would certainly on the news protesting
Those cities like Minneapolis will also have to vote in some new DAs as well.
I just read that Barr is withdrawing federal funds from three cities - New York, Seattle and Portland - for having defunded the police and failing to maintain law and order and protect their citizens and their property. Maybe that will make an impression on these idiot mayors
That which the congress has appropriated can not be with held by the executive branch
That lesson was taught when it was alleged that President Trump thought about withholding money from Ukraine
No, what will kill these cities will be their tax base leaving. Working productive people who pay taxes will not live in a place where they have to continually look over their shoulder and run like cowards from trouble. They will move to more secure environments. This has happened to New York, Seattle, and now Portland. It is now currently happening to other big cities who won’t deal with the antifa/BLM problem. It’s happening in Houston as we speak. The taxpayers are leaving in droves and moving to the outer lying towns and communities. The liberal politicians who run these cities are killing them. And, these people will not be back.
My brother is CEO of a multi-national tech company. When covid started, he literally emptied a three story office building and converted an entire company of over 5,000 employees to work from home. Now that the lawlessness in the big city has started, he has no intentions of moving his operations back to the city. He can run the entire operation from a small office strip center out in podunkville. His employees can live where they want, and they are moving out of Houston as fast as they can.
It’s one thing to to turn your back on your constituents, but its quite another to turn your back on them and and then make it illegal to defend themselves.
The DOJ is withholding funding that is within its control. Barr just announced it - these cities had been warned a couple of weeks earlier, and, yes, he does have the legal power to do it.
South Dakota, if you can take the Winters.
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