Police Officers Wanted – The Revolutionary Cycle in Swing

Armstrong Economics ^ | 6 June 24 | Martin Armstrong

[delta7]

The defund the police movement was so effective that countless agencies are struggling to fill job vacancies. So we have politicians who demonized the police, philanthropists who funded mobs who chanted for their demise, and non-citizens running rampant, committing attacks on officers without consequence. The police are unable to implement law and order because divisive practices and an uptick in crime have become political tools.

ZipRecruiter conducted a new survey that found law enforcement training has become the hardest skill to find for employers with 13,179 vacancies.

Some cities have resorted to completely shutting down their operations, such as the Pittsburgh police who have some precents completely vacant from 3 AM to 7 AM ET. “One hundred percent, this is about staffing,” said Robert Swartzwelder, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1. “You have a recruitment, retention and rhetoric problem.”

The Pittsburgh police force has declined by around 40% in recent decades as more officers quit or seek retirement. We are seeing this happen across the United States.

Governments fall when the police no longer offer them protection. This is one of the reasons why some cities are pushing to fill officer vacancies with migrants. All it takes it the police to side with the people over the government for everything to collapse.

Stages of Revolution This entire issue of rioting against the police is historically part of the Revolutionary Cycle that takes place in five stages:

Stage 1: Whistleblower Disagreements; Discontentment Grows Stage 2: Initial Conflict Begins; Economy Begins to Decline Stage 3: Civil Unrest Peaks Stage 4: Revolution Stage 5: Recovery

The FIRST STAGE in a revolution is always the rise of intellectual whistleblower disagreement, which the government simply ignores as a passing phase. This stage is the realization of corruption and injustice of governmental rule.

Perhaps the symbolization of this was the revelation of Edward Snowden that the government was violating the constitution and abusing its power against the people, constructing a 100% surveillance state tapping into every phone call and email account of every citizen.

Then there was the British whistleblower Katharine Gun, who they charged but could not put on trial without exposing themselves. They labeled both as traitors as if the government possessed inherent power of sovereignty and the people were the great unwashed economic slaves.

The SECOND STAGE is where the intellectual debates prove pointless, and the initial conflict begins. This corruption has run its course, and governments have transformed justice into their own self-interest. This stage is usually accelerated by governments raising taxes in the midst of an economic decline.

The economic hardships may vary per individual, but as a whole, they will tend to focus upon the prosecutorial arm of government, which includes the police, who will far too often claim they are moral under the pretense of simply following orders.

This is when history will typically produce some leader who can be a moderate who sees the problem and will often try to reason in order to reach a resolution that is ignored by the government. This further intensifies the feelings of injustice, especially in light of the economic decline. The leadership can also be seized by extremists who demand complete change, such as Lenin. This initial stage results in the first demands change with protests rising. The mobs rarely are able even to articulate the reform because they then make demands that they want certain actions that go far beyond what they actually need. This is where mobs will often turn to revenge rather than justice. Governments will typically refuse to reform and become often very defensive.

Therefore, the second stage is one of rising protests and discontent with initial confrontation against the government who relies upon the police state they have created. As long as the police continue to support the government against the people, this will inevitably lead to the next revolutionary stage.

The THIRD STAGE is where it often becomes an outright war in the streets as governments seek to retain power and refuse to see the error of their ways. In revolutions like the Nika Revolt of 532 AD, the police side with the people or stand back.

In the case of the Ukrainian Revolution against Yanukovich, once the police saw that the people coming to the aid of the president were Russians, the police switched sides and supported the people. In the case of the Nika Revolt, the government called in the army, who then massacred the people and the police. In the case of the American Revolution, the central power was in England and not local. This allowed the local authorities to differentiate themselves from the British.

The FOURTH STAGE is retribution in a domestic revolution in direct confrontation with the government and head of state. In the case of the American Revolution, the head of state was not within reach. However, they confiscated property and hung those who supported the king. Of course, in the case of the Russian Revolution, they executed the entire Romanov family. This is the phase of evening the score for years of suppression and injustice.

The former head of state is often publicly killed, and typically all their ministers. This was the case not just during the Russian Revolution but the French Revolution with Louis XVI and his wife and the English Revolution, where they seized King Charles I and beheaded him in public as well. There have also been incidents of assassination even after a loss, as was the case with Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

The FIFTH STAGE is typically the recovery stage, where a new form of government emerges from the ashes. The intelligent political moderates take power, as was the case in the United States, typically based on the ideas of some Utopian system. Once again, this differs insofar as the political power was in England rather than America, so there was not a wholesale murder campaign of all former ministers.

In the case of the French Revolution, after the retribution stage, even the moderates were killed by the radicals led by Robespierre, who seized control. As the French Revolution fell into the hands of Robespierre (1758-1794), he began a Reign of Terror (September 5, 1793-July 27, 1794) that would come to an end with his own death. This was followed by more uprisings and eventually the French Constitution was drafted (August 22-September 23, 1795), and approved with the Directory taking power.

During this recovery stage, the radicals are usually overthrown, and sometimes, a new head of state emerges, such as Napoleon or Oliver Cromwell. In the case of the United States, where the former head of state was not local, the bureaucracy began, and we saw the rise of political parties.

Divisions emerge once again between opposing political views. At this point, there is the restoration of a sense of nationalism, but the cycle of corruption slowly begins to take root.

We are currently in the second stage of the revolutionary cycle and rapidly heading toward stage three as discontent grows.

[delta7]

Remember when potato head Joe stated something about gun ownership but we ( the government ) have F-16’s….I have news for potato head, an armed citizenry always wins over a corrupted, authoritarian government…. as history has shown us, time and time again.

Make no mistake- we are living in historic times.

[ronnie raygun]

next step is stopping the entertaining of the mentally ill woke idiots

[MeganC]

I’m all for ending the experiment of modern policing.

Restore Constitutional carry and without police to protect the criminals we the people will clean things up pretty quick.

[Mr.Unique]

Your proposal is worthy of consideration.

I’ll note that the essay above makes no mention of the Police + Cop Union+ Criminal Justice + Law and Order Republican Cabal culpability in the current situation.

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: The defund the police movement was so effective that countless agencies are struggling to fill job vacancies.

The lie is right there in the first line of the story.

It wasn't the Defund The Police movement that caused the shortage, that came after the departments were cutting police funding since they couldn't fill the vacancies anyway.

The vacancies were caused by governments targeting officers for Leftist political expediency, especially starting with Ferguson Missouri a decade ago (2014). That agenda was repeated across the country where governments collaborated with Propaganda Media outlets as they threw officers under the bus when politically expedient, charging white officers and hiding black officers that were also involved. To add insult to injury, these governments then refused to charge rioters during the Democrat Riots of 2020 while charging officers at the same time.

The poster-tard for the Leftist campaign, St. George Floyd of Fentanyl, died due to drugs he took and for fighting with the arresting officers when caught trying to pass counterfeit money. The government charged and incarcerated the officers for political gain. What officer would ever put themselves at such risk for politicians who'd end their lives in such a blatant abuse of the law?

These departments are clearly desperate. I see now see video clips with the fattest, weakest cops imaginable. I can only imagine what the injury and disability costs they're bringing to these municipalities.

On a related note, for the first time ever I saw a web commercial trying to recruit police using the police motorcycle division. It was priceless how they were trying to sell motorcycle riding as a fun job with minimal focus on that it was to be a motorcycle cop. I expect you'll see Hollywood take taxpayer money via city governments to remake television shows such as CHiPs.

[ABStrauss]

By the evil leftists jumping on the ‘Defund Police’ bandwagon they, in the eyes of the ignorant thugs, reduced the value of a police force. The turned that force for good into targets for killers.

[T. Rustin Noone]

Welcome to “A Clockwork Orange”, my little droogies.

[frog in a pot]

Make no mistake- we are living in historic times.

Bingo!

The sooner our political party in opposition realize that the more likely the nation we believe in will survive.

From the article:
Governments fall when the police no longer offer them protection.

I think in this regard the elements of a revolution are not always, if ever, similar to the elements of a coup; it would seem to turn on which party wears the "white hats"

Those who wish to remake the traditional "law and order" America are, as one measure, stripping the judiciary and LE in hopes of introducing chaos, not necessarily bringing about the fall of our government.

In fact, those attempting the remaking effort may already believe they have sufficient control of the government.

It is that chaos that will result in governmental overreach with a new form judiciary and new class of LE that will result in tyranny.

[qaz123]

It’s about a lot more than defunding the police and lousy DAs.

It’s about the fact that the Left has “feminized” generations. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc have wreaked havoc on generations because everyone wants to be an influencer.

There is less meritocracy in law enforcement than years before and getting worse every year. So many incompetent people running departments and getting promoted.

And then, a US Dept Of Labor study, circa 2014-2015ish, found that every year, the number of people qualified/willing to join Police/fire/military declines by 5%

[frog in a pot]

Restore Constitutional carry and without police to protect the criminals we the people will clean things up pretty quick.

You and I may think we are capable of cleaning up our immediate environment - but I think a police force is essential for the other areas we are unable to reach. [;^)

[MeganC]

“You and I may think we are capable of cleaning up our immediate environment - but I think a police force is essential for the other areas we are unable to reach.”

And sheriff’s departments can handle those. It’s the anti-Constitutional urban Democrat-operated police departments that I want to see ended.

[230FMJ]

I believe that Obummer legitimized the targeting and murder of police officers starting with his “The police acted stupidly” crap early in his regime.

[MeganC]

“I’ll note that the essay above makes no mention of the Police + Cop Union+ Criminal Justice + Law and Order Republican Cabal culpability in the current situation.”

The “Law and Order Republican Cabal” needs to wake up and realize that law and order is no longer the purpose of Democrat-operated urban police departments. Enforcing Marxist policies and Marxist goals is their purpose.

These people are just thugs. They don’t enforce the law and to say so is utterly comical when these jacktards don’t even know the law!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUslkLG1moE

[frog in a pot]

Great point about the sheriffs depts. (thought you included those in a blanket exclusion of "police").

[Mr.Unique]

It was priceless how they were trying to sell motorcycle riding as a fun job with minimal focus on that it was to be a motorcycle cop.

A few years back CHP was using billboards to run recruiting ads with a Dodge Charger skidding into the foreground. Sure, pull in the guys that think they will be skidding around the streets in a Charger. That's just the cop I want.

[zeugma]

In general, the whole ‘defund the police’ mantra didn’t particularly bother me. This was especially true as it became obvious how eagerly the police enforced any suggestion by the political masters during covid, no matter how blatantly unconstitutional or nonsensical. Screw them IMO. These days they aren’t even useful as taking reports for insurance purposes, though they are as willing to act as tax collectors and highwaymen on the ‘public’ roads.

I have little to no use for police in my daily life because they seem to exist for no other purpose than to either generate revenue or to operate as enforcers of the edicts of the police state.