Posted on 04/25/2021 7:22:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Almost all of the largest cities in the United States are governed by hard-left Democrats. In fact, there is only one Republican Mayor among the top 15 cities in the country and only three among the 30 largest cities.
All of the problems in our urban areas today are almost exclusively the result of the failed Democratic Party leadership. While previous generations of Democrats might have tried to find bi-partisan solutions to long standing problems, the party’s leaders in 2021 are woke leftists interested only in pushing their radical agenda.
The result has been outmigration, soaring crime rates, a drug epidemic, broken families, failing public schools, an increasing number of blighted properties, high poverty and unemployment rates, an obsession with a race-based agenda and rising antipathy toward law enforcement officers. No wonder people are fleeing our cities in hopes of finding safety and a better quality of life.
Recent headlines show the absolute destruction that is ongoing. In New Orleans, there was another shooting early Saturday morning on Bourbon Street, in the French Quarter, the city’s premier tourist destination. In this case, five people were shot. Sadly, this type of carnage is becoming a regular occurrence in the Crescent City. New Orleans is suffering from a shortage of police officers and an abundance of criminals.
In Philadelphia, police department leaders are lamenting a shortage of officers as few new recruits are coming forward to replace the large number of retirements. Currently, the department is already understaffed, and the problem will only grow worse.
In Los Angeles, crime is skyrocketing while George Gascon, the new woke District Attorney, is pledging to dismantle his office’s Hardcore Gang Division. This decision is baffling to many citizens asstatisticsshow that gang violence has contributed to approximately 60% of the murders in the first 110 days of the year.
Portland, Oregon has been a cesspool of rioting and looting ever since the death of George Floyd made national headlines last Memorial Day. Incredibly, it has never stopped. Last weekend, stores were set ablaze and burglarized. On Friday, a large mob of anarchists spray painted storefronts with graffiti, broke windows, and terrorized diners in a restaurant.
After the latest incidents, the far-left Mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, asked citizens to “call the police” if they see protesters “dressed in all black.” It is much too little, much too late for Wheeler, who has been punched and ridiculed by Antifa affiliated thugs. He has not been able to enjoy a meal in a restaurant or even live peacefully at his home. Protesters, dressed in black, staged a sit-in at Wheeler’s condo building and even hurled “bags of rubbish” and other objects at him as he was walking down a street.
The chaos is also continuing in Seattle, the epicenter of Antifa related violence. In this city, the far left created an autonomous zone, attacked a police precinct headquarters, and basically declared war on law abiding citizens. The craziness never stopped due to incompetent and fearful leadership.
This week, Motion Church, based just south of Seattle, was forced to cancel a speech by Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. After the speech was announced, a Seattle Antifa organization threatened to destroy the church.
This threat forced the church’s Pastor, Roger Archer, to make his decision. According to Archer, “cops don’t have the manpower to protect the several properties used by the church.” He claimed “the soft targets of churches, the elderly, women, children, and law-abiding citizens are vulnerable to anarchists who live free of the fear of reprisal.”
Archer also correctly noted that “What recent history has taught us is there’s an apparent lack of interest at the state level of leadership to protect decent, taxpaying citizens. Those terrorist mobs know that there is no consequence for their lawlessness. They have nothing to lose and nothing to fear.”
Archer is right, while the FBI and Department of Justice are busy arresting and prosecuting all the individuals who entered the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, there have been few, if any, repercussions for those involved in approximately 275 riots that have occurred in Seattle and other cities across the country since last summer.
Americans can thank the woke Mayors and the woke Department of Justice for contributing to the anarchy and destruction on the streets of America’s cities.
This is especially true in New York City, led by hopelessly left-wing Mayor, Bill de Blasio. During his tenure, New York is being decimated by not only the pandemic, but also by rising crime. In2020, shootings increased by almost 100%, while murders increased by 44%.
One factor in this increase is that New York police officers do not feel any support from the Mayor. There have been multiple incidents, many captured on video, of police officers being viciously attacked by criminals, who face almost no penalties for their actions.
It is no surprise that in 2020, an astounding5,300police officers retired or quit. This is a75%increase from 2019. As more police officers leave, the crime rate will continue to rise, and taxpayers and business will continue to flee. In response, Mayor de Blasio has continued to pander to the far left and failed to address the concerns of police and terrified citizens.
In Minneapolis, weak, woke leftist Mayor Jacob Frey has turned over his city to protesters demanding “justice for George Floyd.” However, the no-go zone created near the intersection where Floyd died has seen an enormous reduction in customers, mostly hurting local African American business owners.
One area restaurant proprietor, Alexander W., told theNew York Postthat city leaders “left me in danger.” He said, “They locked us up…left us behind…left me with no food, no water, nothing to eat.”
Hopefully, the citizens in these woke hellholes will eventually realize that the best way to improve their plight will be to stop voting for Democratic Party politicians, who deliver only poverty, misery, violence and, ultimately, failure.
Liberalism is the new tyranny Americans accept without question
Broke?
LMAO.
More like wrecked, destroyed, sh*tholed, made or turned to 3rd world, etc.
Demonicrat politicians (including those sitting on the judicial bench) should be indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced for murder, crimes against humanity, and treason.
Some of these blue urban cities have been gentrified in certain areas in the last decade. Look for wokism to underscore the error of their ways as they start the trek out of there
More like wrecked, destroyed, sh*tholed, made or turned to 3rd world, etc.
In a word....broke.
Meaning....needs fixing.
The real, untold story is that the flow of capital and private investment in these cities has diminished to a trickle. They are lawless, unlivable and survive only with Federal subsidies.
They can TRY to bottle-up what’s become of our cities (with the help of the media), but word does slowly leak out.
The bottom line is that America’s cities are FINISHED, at least for a generation. They were in bad shape from the late 1960s to about 1995, then had a revival that lasted until maybe 2012 (due to people getting fed up with crime), but have been going down, non-stop since about 2012 (due to people feeling guilty about not having enough crime).
So now it will be at least 2030, maybe 2040, if the cities even recover...but it’s hard to see how that even happens.
So, WRITE OFF the cities, now it’s time to hunker-down and secure our red areas, if we have any desire to even live in this country anymore.
We are around 4% of people on earth. We own close to half of the guns on earth. The government has abdicated its most basic responsibility. Americans are self segregating right now. Eventually the mobs will move outward and choose the wrong location.
A blind man can see it coming. And someday, when antifa walks into a well planned ambush, as I watch it on TV I will be laughing. Every old grunt cringes and how they pursue people without a thought to security, how they bunch up, how their behavior drives cops to stay blocks away. They feel invincible, but every infantrymen can see what’s about to happen to them.
What is going to happen to them?
I don’t see it.
Verbose, redundant and superfluous.
Corrected: almost exclusively the result of the failed Democratic Party leadership
Anybody with more than two functioning IQ points knows the RAT party is the bane of civilization. The only question is whether or not there are enough committed Americans left to stop our descent into madness.
It’s pretty obvious to me that that there is not.
It's obvious the voters of these cities have been programmed to vote democrat no matter what.
The rest of us are best off staying out of these cities and dining in establishments vulnerable to attack. Let’s give the residents space, as it were, to clean up their own messes, and hopefully persuade the emigrants to stop voting Democrat in their new abodes.
PING!
Also, move out of Bleu states if you can. My own state, Maryland, will probably go up in its entirety within the next few years.
God willing, I will be in Florida by the end of the year.
UPDATE ON SECOND CITY COP BLOG (SCC) THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN LAST YEAR BY THE DEMOCRATS:
Second City Cop Addresses Chicago
April 21, 2021
Florian Sohnke
Administrators of popular Chicago blog emerge to deliver some great thoughts and observations
Two months. We could regale you with stories about what we’ve been doing the past sixty days, but rest assured, you’d be bored pretty darn quick. Suffice it to say we’ve been busy. Some good, some bad, some truly sad, but busy. Life goes on until it doesn’t.
We’ll get to the question everyone is asking shortly.
In the meantime, how about that Groot? Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, Groot goes out, makes things infinitely worse, and then blames...the Police!
Two more suicides while we’re in limbo – nothing from the Groot and worse, a canned e-mail from Brownie. Did you know that after the suicide in 019, not a single member of the Command Staff showed up at Roll Calls for at least three days? Including the District Commander. But they care. Really. They tell us so in e-mails and e-learning videos.
Four cops shot in a matter of days – no condemnation from the political structure. Almost like they’re scared to show even the tiniest bit of support for the men and women in blue, lest the suspiciously dormant “rioters” notice them.
And now a dead 13-year-old gangbanger. How do we know he’s a gangbanger? Social media pictures of him flashing gang signs. Tattoos noted in the coroner report and the “eyebrow lines” shaved in. The announcement (that actually made the media) that the gang would be targeting unmarked squad cars and the cops riding within – would they do that for a non-gangbanger? (Hint: No.) Can anyone reading tell us exactly when a 13-year-old is allowed to be outside at 0230 hours with a firearm? We know the assorted caucuses in Springfield are busy rolling back all sorts of laws and passing new ones, but we don’t recall this one sneaking out of committee. Did Pritzker sign something the night before?
And there’s Groot, the f#$%ing “mayor” of Chicago, sympathizing with the “mother” who didn’t know her son was missing for two days, didn’t even report him missing for three, and identified the body in the morgue five days after the shooting. That’s “mother of the year” material right there.
Brownie was worse, posting an e-mail to everyone where he expressed exactly ZERO concern for the mental well-being of the Officer involved, who was placed into the unfortunate situation of responding to a “Shots Fired” call, and being quick enough to arrive on-scene in time to actually on-view someone with a gun. End result? Cops are wrong for engaging in....foot pursuits. That’s the message, loud and clear. They’ve already all but banned vehicle pursuits, so now chasing anyone on foot is to be regulated, monitored and banned.
Crimesha has relegated her entire office to being a criminal’s BFF. If you follow the CWB blog (still a daily read for us) a number of articles aren’t just about criminals out on “affordable bails” that are shooting and killing rivals along with a few innocent bystanders – it’s about rapists who should be on electronic monitoring not even showing up to be lo-jacked, and then going out and raping again. Personally, there ought to be a bracelet of C-4 wrapped around their waist and detonated if they so much as approach a woman, but Crimesha seems happy to have them just out raping again.
You know what happens when cops can’t even foot chase? We’ve seen it on a daily basis with vehicle chases – you get a ton more of them because the criminal knows that (A) the cops aren’t chasing and (B) there’s no penalty for fleeing. No foot chases? Get ready for a massive upswing (or more massive upswing) in shoplifting, thefts, muggings and robberies.
Not only that, but they will almost all be armed. As in ready to visit violence on anyone who resists. As in bodies are going to stack up, because they know cops cannot engage in a foot pursuit. If you’re paying attention, you know it has already begun.
This part is darkly amusing – you know who is suffering quite a bit in Chicago? Minority mothers, whose kids are being raped, shot, mugged and murdered (check the HeyJackass.com stats page). And who’s in charge around these parts? Groot, Crimesha, Prickwrinkle – three minority mothers, whose “catch-and-release” policies, along with zero-bail initiatives, downgrading criminal acts (without legislative action) and anti-police support have led to the biggest shooting and killing tallies since 2016.
And a new crisis is on the horizon that the media hasn’t even touched on for some strange reason:
We still get e-mails from coppers with all sorts of info, hoping we will return and use it one day. Like the Academy. How many recruits are in the Academy right now? Many hundreds? One hundred? Try under 50.
And how many are in the hiring pipeline? Supposedly, after scouring the last THREE hiring lists for any warm body that washed out of pre-testing, over one-thousand letters and e-mails were sent out to take the Power test. How many showed up? About 70. One-third failed.
The FOP has the retirement numbers for Jan/Feb/Mar and there are hundreds. Literally hundreds....and not even 100 in the pipeline.
Anyone know why the media isn’t covering this? After all, Groot is “saving” millions in salary costs. “Savings” that will be dwarfed by overtime costs during the killing season on tap. Any reporters out there looking to make some waves, or is that illegal now? Or “undocumented” in the parlance of the current administration.
In any event, the BIG question....is the blog coming back? And again, we can only say, “Maybe.” We want to bring it (or something similar) back so that cops have somewhere to vent and participate in a “give-and-take” conversation. We don’t want to have the site reliant on the goodwill of the tech giants who have proven since the election that they have no qualms about attacking and silencing conservative thoughts, voices and anything that disrupts the current narrative. Our security is paramount in all of our calculations, and that means no obvious trail back to our people. Anonymizers and cut-outs are of limited use in the age of big tech. We are trying though.
Many thanks to the Contrarian for letting us camp out here and waste their electrons for a little while to touch base with everyone. In closing, from someone far wiser than we: “You aren’t here to save society...you are here to document the downfall, one RD number at a time.” This is what they want...nay, demanded.
Stay safe,
SCC
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/second-city-cop-addresses-chicago
Willful Self-determination
Wicked Self-deception
Woeful Self-destruction.
This is shown by today’s “Go woke, go broke”, which simply states “cause and effect” when the Marx madness mental malware displaces common sense.
Or even more simply said as “Vote demonrat.”
See Romans 1:18-31 for a more detailed explanation of this most basic truth.
And, if you have time, listen to Dr. Adrian Rogers’ “The Lost World” sermon for even more insights, found here:
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/custom-player/the-lost-world-571284.html
It’s obvious you were never a grunt and have that instinct for seeing when someone is -way- out over the tips of their skis. If you were, you would understand my comment. Also, such a direct question is very poor form these days.
Everyone knows that BLM/antifa woke mobs are destroying the country while only Trump voters get arrested.
If 2022 sees RINO-controlled state legislatures being replaced with conservative patriots, then it will be the first step toward taking our country back.
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