Last year was a rough year for people who lived in Democrat-controlled cities like New York City, San Diego, and Chicago. The liberal governments voters put in place showed that they don’t know how to keep citizens safe. Activism and a soft-on-crime approach to crime prevention backfired on them endangering their lives and property.
Crime rose dramatically in these liberal cities last year, and when the politicians in charge turned to the police to prevent this, the police weren’t there.
Police in these cities had decided that enough is enough. Low morale, poor pay, and lack of support from those they were trying to help led to police officers resigning or moving on to cities where liberal policies hadn’t turned the cities into places where criminals virtually controlled the streets.
“Patrol officers these days feel like they’re not getting the support that they once got by the public,” Texas Christian University policing professor and reserve officer Johnny Nhan told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s anything from apathy to hostility that they’re facing. They’re afraid of accusations of being racist or being brutal, they’re filmed all the time, so that does something to the officers. They’re feeling like, ‘Hey, there’s a lot of legal risk being a cop these days.’”
The more officers police departments lose, the more likely it is that the remaining officers will find themselves fighting a losing battle against crime in their cities.
The New York Times cited New York City Police Pension Fund data that showed 1,225 police officers within their first five years of service resigned from the New York City Police during the first 11 months of 2022.
The San Diego Police Department lost more than 50 police officers in a three-month period last year, according to Fox 5 San Diego.
“They see the urban decay that is really occurring in San Diego, and they are fleeing with their families, they are fleeing with their careers,” Wilson said, according to Fox 5. San Diego County hit its highest mid-year violent crime rate in ten years by the end of June 2022, accompanied by a 4% spike in homicides and a 15% increase in robberies, SANDAG reported.
While these stats are discouraging, they aren’t totally unexpected. Police have now reached the breaking point. They are being asked to control crime in their jurisdictions with ever-increasing restrictions on how they can do it to the point that they are unable to do their jobs safely. And so, they resign.
Police are facing an increasingly hostile populace, at least in cities, and if they feel like they aren’t supported by elected and city officials, they aren’t remaining around to be crushed. They are leaving… leaving their jobs and leaving officials and citizens to deal with the crime they encouraged.
The result is predictable. Things will get worse and the fewer remaining officers will be asked to continue to put their lives on the line for government officials who don’t seem to care as long as they can pander to the progressives in the city.
Michael A. Letts is the CEO and Founder of In-VestUSA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs.
Good citizens should leave the crime infested cities and states. Those places will collapse on their own.
Maybe. Bankrupt blue states have a habit of trawling the Federal government for bail-outs; courtesy of funds taken from red states.
That is happening to some extent but things will progress in one of three ways:
Crisis will awaken some city governments, they’ll wise up and turn things round again, doing what it takes to suppress criminal activity effectively.
Insanity will prevail and things continue to deteriorate until chaos and destruction reign supreme, leading to anarchy and destruction. This will persist until the unseemly and most violent thin their own numbers voluntarily.
Wisdom will rise up within the population, which will, in accord with or defiance of locally applicable firearms laws, arm themselves and take care of business, restoring order and decency.
The only one of the three that will bring lasting change is the third one.
My son was a deputy sheriff for 17 years, and getting shot in the line of duty was not his greatest fear. It was the possibility of having to use lethal force and then being destroyed by the press. Don’t like cops? The 9-1-1 function on your phone should be disabled. Call any Democrat you like instead.
The bad part about all these people fleeing these dangerous liberal controlled cities is that they will continue to vote Democrat and eventually turn their new homes into the same kind of hell holes that the fled from…
Don’t defunded the police
That horrible Joe Biden and those who hold in him power in the White House irrational and stupid if not outright evil because they want to defund the police.
One thing is for sure, which is if the police force is defunded then there in American cities and even towns there a drastic raise in crime especially heinous vile violent murderous crimes, as rapes and murderers along with rapes and the murder of the rapes victims. There would be more kidnappings and then along with that, many times, the torture and murder of the innocent people who had been kidnapped. Also more robberies and vicious violent assaults on peaceful people by hooligans and well as more vile sex assaults.
There would be a sharp and awful increase of wife and child abuse. In addition there would be a terrible large inflation of riots along with the arson, looting and vandalism that is always part of it.
There would even in non-riots be an increase in home and business break- in’s with looting vandalism and physical harm committed against the peaceful people by thugs.
There can be no doubt that many people who now want the police to be defunded would be first to complain if they would become a victims of hooligans.
In conclusion the police definitely be well funded and supported and never defunded.
In other words, defunding police will accelerate the collapse of civilization. But no matter how much the police are paid, the abuse that they deal with from the Fourth Estate (our ever-reliable Fifth Column) and the politicians has become unbearable and they are leaving. Do you blame them?
liberals who keep pressing the D when they vote, love being punished by those that rule over them… they believe that since they are human and beneath all planet and planet life are worthy of the worst kinds of punishment….. fools.
Have you had your head in the barrel that long? Seems it is NOT how many pr4ss the D or R button, but WHO “counts” them. Wake up. The voting process has been coopted. Until that is dealt with this will continue until WE THE PEOPLE rise up and take a strong stand against the violence the police are supposed to control. Didn’t use tobe that way. Used to be towns and counties were self-policing and self-governing.
Those heinous thugs who shoot at police officers are malicious and even worse than lawless. They are outright wicked. The character of those hooligan and other hoodlums as him are described in the Bible. Which reads “”Their feet are swift to shed blood; Destruction and misery are their ways; and the way of peace they have not known “ Romans 3:15-17. [N.K.J.V.] Those who engage in violence against police officers must have murderous intentions. They are blatant villains. The Bible teaches that a murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God. “ Galatians 5:21.
Furthermore, in the Bible in Romans 13: 1, 2 it is written “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resist resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.”
In addition to all this, in verses 3 and 4 in this same chapter of the Epistle of Romans, with emphasis on verse 4 it actually refers to governmental law enforcement officers as a type of “ministers of God” Therefore, it stands to reason that engaging in violence towards police officers are really, engaging in violence towards ministers of God. How evil, how heinously wicked, how demonic, how monstrous. What and affront to all that is decent, good and right.
Well, maybe not ministers of G0d, but ministers of the People, who are supposed to be the sovereign rulers of this land, under G0d.
Well, maybe not ministers of G0d, but ministers of the People, who are supposed to be the sovereign rulers of this land, under G0d.
a “minister” is simply someone who serves another. They are ministers of God in that He has raised them up to keep the peace, administer justice, and “bear the swrod against those who do harm”. (His words not mine). Wile directly serviing the Gd who made us, He has appointed them to serve US.. keepiing the peace, punishing those who “do harm”. Note well, this “list” does not include enforcing petty rules and regulations such as conducting a motor vehicle (or even a bicycle) at a rate of speed arbitrarily determoned to be “too fast” but harming no one.Or possession of certain “items” deemed “illegal” by thiose in charge, again, harming no one. God only aproves of punishment fr those who HARM.
The activists who do bail campaigns to release criminals from prison don’t really care about the community. They are narcissists who want to tear this country apart.
The dumb bltch Kamala is assured that those released early won’t visit her house. She & Hollywood donors feel safe in their cloistered neighborhoods.
Although; it’s not guaranteed that they’ll always be free of the consequences.
In 2021, ex-senator Barbara Boxer was mugged of her cell phone in Oakland. (Paul Pelosi’s assault doesn’t count, because he invited the punk in for a trist-gone-wrong.)
The Democrats have the knack to ruin everything they touch or have anything to do with and yet they just continue to reelect these Nit-Wits then wonder why everything is going down the drain fast
he who COUNTS the “votes” is he who gets his way.
Yeah… I really cared before the mask mandates. But they didn’t have time for murders, had to be on coffee shop patrol to make sure noses were covered. So maybe they had too much staff.
I’m with you on this one, in my small town in the UK the police drove up and down our little dead end street twice a day during the lockdown hysteria, never to be seen since.