[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.

[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%

[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.

[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.