Thanks. I’m just hoping that one of the take aways here is a realistic analysis of what can really be done with police. Rather than the typical, knee jerk reaction to just hire more.
There were a lot of police in Ferguson last night. The National Guard made a debut. But to what end? The scum burned the town just the same. By having a police presence, all you’re doing is putting up a convenient and expensive scapegoat. A more honest and inexpensive response would have been to tell the local residents that they’re on their own, and if they don’t want to live in a burnt out, robbed out ghetto, it was up to them to decide to defend it.
“if they don’t want to live in a burnt out, robbed out ghetto, it was up to them to decide to defend it.”
Apparently some of that went on last night. According to one Freeper some residents of one neighborhood banded together and fired shots to deter a large crowd of rioters.