THE LEFT AND THEIR PARAMILITARY ARMS WANT WAR. THIS IS WAR, PEOPLE...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-county-sheriffs-reward-ambush-attacker

This is a direct result of the anti-cop rhetoric spewed by the liberal left, the media, Democrats, the media, and their followers.  Ladies and gentlemen, make NO mistake, this is war.  This is what they want, this is all part of their plan.  Let me repeat that in caps so we are clear here:  THEY WANT WAR.  THEY WANT THE COMPLETE FAILURE OF OF AMERICAN SOCIETY.  THEY ARE OPENLY ADVOCATING THE COMPLETE TEAR DOWN OF THE UNITED STATES, AND APPLAUDING THE MURDER OF OUR FRONT-LINE RESPONDERS...

Let's look at this with some common sense though:  None of these people have developed actual life skills, not for a soft, comfortable society full of malls and iPhones and Amazon, and certainly not for the anarchy and feudalism that will result if they get their wish.  Here's the truth of the matter...

Defunding the police, combined with the increasingly hostile attitude towards the police from their own leadership and elected officials means that police work is rapidly becoming an unattractive career choice.  All these cops who have been on the job for ten, twenty, even thirty years, with all their experience, street-smarts and abilities?  They are leaving in droves.  Big city departments (let's say departments with over 1,000 officers) are looking to lose up to 20% of their most experienced officers and leadership as guys and gals with enough time on the job to retire are doing so, even if they had planned to do thirty, they are seeing the writing on the wall and leaving at twenty.  Younger, college educated cops with seven to ten years on the job are young enough to start a new career, so they're leaving too.

What happens when you can't entice the good guys to become cops?  When they pay sucks, the danger is ever increasing as staffing levels drop and equipment less available, the chances of being sued or prosecuted are hanging over your head from day one, etc?  I'll tell you what happens.  The standards get lowered, and the quality of your candidate pool follows.  Pretty soon, you have cops who avoid those calls for service that might be hairy.  You have cops who don't know how to read a situation, you have cops who have hundreds of hours of sensitivity and diversity training but less than twenty hours a year of combatives training, firearms training, etc.  All of this leads to cops more likely to shoot or kick somebody's ass because they haven't received the training on how to safely take down a fighter, or shoot/don't shoot scenarios.

Pretty soon, you end up with residents of these jurisdictions who can afford to do so, leaving for jurisdictions where the cops are still supported and funded.  It will look like the "White Flight" of the 1970's, but it won't be.  It will be people escaping these large cities as the crime rates skyrocket, looking to live in a safer place.  If you think I'm wrong, just look at how the homicide and violent crime rates in major cities with administrations already defunding and leaving the cops out to dry.  New York City, Chicago, Seattle, LA, the list is growing every day.  But long-time residents of these cities are now openly questioning their safety and security.  It will be months, not years, before we see the middle and upper class residents of these places leaving for cities where this situation is not tolerated.

What comes after that?  Maybe at the five year mark?  Major cities look like New York City in the 1970s, what the FDNY called "The War Years" as entire boroughs became untenable slums filled with crime and chaos that bled into surrounding areas.  In five years, once modern cities like Seattle and Portland, Chicago, they'll all look like Detroit, with hundreds of city blocks full of abandoned, vacant, and burned out properties, a wasteland with an unsolved homicide rate hovering around 80%.  You want to talk about a socio-economic divide?  The haves and have nots?  This whole country will be irreparably divided in this scenario.  The haves?  In ten years, they'll be living in gated communities with para-military private security.  And their cities will be patrolled by cops driving armored cars and authorized to use whatever force is needed to keep criminals and the have nots out.  The have nots?  They'll be trapped by their lack of resources, stuck in the Mogadishu-esque wastelands that will be the signature of those locales that defunded and wrecked their police forces.  The cops in those locales?  They'll be corrupt, infested with thugs who passed the minimal requirements to get hired and now patrol their beats not to prevent or solve crime, but to collect bribes from the crime lords, gangs and militias that actually "police" their territories.  Think that's a stretch?  Look at Venezuela, Columbia, the Philippines, Johannesburg, Mexico...

But here's an article from one of my must-read fellow bloggers, Greg Ellefritz.  He lays it out much better than I can, from a cop's perspective...  Y'all best be stocking up on guns and ammo, and figuring out how you will live day-to-day when this country is in this situation.  Start learning to grow your own food, start learning basic medical care, the list is endless.

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