Comments on: Bail reform in NY: the gift that keeps on giving

By: neo

neo — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:06:03 +0000

Bryan Lovely:

Agree. I have similar thoughts about the extreme difficulty of police work.

Plus I would add that it is all done not only under that psychological pressure, but under the pressure of very real physical danger that is nearly a constant possiblity.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:49:51 +0000

That’s it. The Democratic Party is the collecting pool of all the people with Borderline Personality Disorder.

By: Bryan Lovely

Bryan Lovely — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:46:32 +0000

To be a blue-city police officer these days must be like being in an emotionally-abusive relationship.

— you must never do too much or too little, you must be perfect every time;
— you must read minds to understand what the perfect response is;
— any prior understandings or agreements can be abrogated at the other’s whim;
— any prior event can be retroactively declared as proof of your perfidy at any time;
— you walk around on eggshells all day, trying to fulfill your promises but wondering what it’s going to be that you did wrong today.

Ask me how I know.

In any case, people in these circumstances either shut down and hide, or they lash out. Is it really any wonder that we have both police stand-downs and overreactions?

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:55:50 +0000

The warnings that police will resign because of today’s riots, plus the history of that actually happening in Baltimore earlier, plus the calls to disband the police — any bets there is a covertly coordinated policy of the left to deliberately drive away law enforcement in “their territory”?

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:53:46 +0000

John Tyler — also California east of I-5. In fact, the whole country between I-5 and I-95. Read Kurt Schlicter’s “Kelly Turnbull” series.

Maybe ArtflD can tell us — wouldn’t it be possible to identify every one of these assholes chanting “Defund the Police” and put them into a database? “No police for you, dirtbag!”

By: Dnaxy

Dnaxy — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:43:30 +0000

Sooner or later there are going to be some mistakes made by Antifa and they are going to go into residential areas. There are just too many guns and too much testosterone in these areas for this incursion of lawlessness to be successful. These folks are not turnips. There is too much unconformity in the suburbs. False flag, agent provocateur operations by the homeowners will succeed in pinching off Antifa groups into large arrestible groups. This will finally bring these terrorist efforts into public transparency and the useful idiot liberals won’t be able to endlessly excuse the radicals. Or, if we do not unite a bit, and have these successes, we will have a strange and sloppy militia civil war between the Gramscians and the conservatives for awhile.

How many homeowners began cleaning their guns and looking for ammunition over the last few days?

When something cannot continue, it won’t. Second Amendment police forces await.

By: ArtfldgrUselessNothing

ArtfldgrUselessNothing — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:27:58 +0000

i hope they do, it will be an interesting experiment in social work

Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police
http://www.citypages.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-members-consider-disbanding-the-police/570993291

By: ArtfldgrUselessNothing

ArtfldgrUselessNothing — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:26:25 +0000

RNB – your so right… and the people that did this, know that the black neighborhoods (not communities as they are not knit), will not be rebuilt, will lose businesses and support… the police with be loath to go in to help anyone…

sad

but i have my own problems of losing home, cant get work, and such due to the politics… so… i have little sympathy (left) for people who have the potential to get so much help and more…

By: RNB

RNB — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:33:04 +0000

If you want to see what policing in Big Blue Cities will be like next year, look at Baltimore today. In the wake of the Freddie Gray prosecutions, the police know they have lost the support of the city government and can be hung out to dry at any time. Current cops retire or relocate as fast as they can. The remainder do as little as possible. Recruitment of new officers is so hard that standards for candidates have been lowered to include people with prior drug convictions.

By: ArtfldgrUselessNothing

ArtfldgrUselessNothing — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:28:59 +0000

“For it is not always when things are going from bad to worse that revolutions break out. On the contrary, it oftener happens that when a people which has put up with an oppressive rule over a long period without protest suddenly finds the government relaxing its pressure, it takes up arms against it.”

but………

The economy was in a downward spin. The Eden Treaty of 1786, negotiated to open trade between France and Great Britain, created terrible pressure on French industry and many thousands of textiles workers lost their jobs. The year 1788 was a terrible one for agriculture, and led to food shortages throughout the country, pushing many to leave home in search of employment. These roving bands of men triggered fear among the broader population already living close to the edge.