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7 Ways The World Would Be Better Without Police

Posted on April 17, 2021 | Leave a comment

From The Babylon Bee:

Police are part of a system of oppression that is very systemic and oppressive. It’s true– our rich white sociology professor told us so. Some politicians are calling for us to “reimagine policing,” but we think that’s not far enough! It’s time to imagine a world with no police!

Here are 7 reasons the world would be better without police.

1. There would be more doughnuts available for the rest of us – We’re sick of showing up at the doughnut shop to find the police already came in and took all the best ones. Oppression at its finest.

2. Vigilante justice is way more fun – At least, according to the movies, it is. Why call the police when you can form your own posse and hunt down the evildoers yourself?

3. With speed limits not enforced, you can finally test the limits of your 2013 Honda Odyssey – Always wanted to see what this puppy could do!

4. There would be much more liberation of TVs from Walmart – Think about it: there are thousands of TVs, tennis shoes, and top-shelf liquor being held in captivity all across the nation. It’s time to liberate these high-priced goods from their shelves!

5. Unlimited loitering outside 7-Eleven – You can stand out there for hours and no one will bother you. Heaven on earth!

6. You can yell in the library now – Not only that, but you can check out unlimited books and never bring them back with complete impunity.

7. All problems in the black community will go away – Everything wrong in the inner city is the cops’ fault. If the cops go, everything will be solved. It’s just that simple!

Isn’t it fun to imagine? Now, all we have to do is vote in politicians who will promise to make all the cool things in our imagination come true. Get on it, people!

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Did America’s Anti-Cop Movement Lead To Largest Homicide Increase In US History? by Tyler Durden

Posted on January 28, 2021 | Leave a comment

Don’t tell the left, but society may actually work better with competent police forces. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

Did America’s ‘defund the police’ movement result in the largest percentage increase in homicides in US history? Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The War On Cops” makes a strong argument that it likely did.

In a Sunday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Mac Donald notes that 2020 ‘likely saw the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history,’ noting that murder was up almost 37% across a sample of 57 large and medium-size cities. According to preliminary figures, “at least 2,000 more Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than 2019.”

And while the establishment media is largely blaming the pandemic for the spike, Mac Donald says the chronology doesn’t support that assertion – and President Biden’s criminal-justice policies stand to exacerbate the ongoing crime wave while ignoring its causes.

The local murder increases in 2020 were startling: 95% in Milwaukee, 78% in Louisville, Ky., 74% in Seattle, 72% in Minneapolis, 62% in New Orleans, and 58% in Atlanta, according to data compiled by crime analyst Jeff Asher. Dozens of children, overwhelmingly black, were killed in drive-by shootings. They were slain in their beds, living rooms and strollers. They were struck down at barbecues, in their yards, in malls, in their parents’ cars, and at birthday parties. Fifty-five children were killed in Chicago in 2020, 17 in St. Louis, and 11 in Philadelphia. In South Los Angeles alone, 40 children were shot, some non-lethally, through September. –WSJ

The MSM, such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suggested that the increase is due to the “economic, civic and interpersonal stress” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot similarly blamed pandemic-related “frustration, anger … trauma and mental health challenges.”

However, this doesn’t square with the fact that crime actually fell during the first few months of the pandemic lockdowns – both domestically and abroad, only to reverse itself in May in the United States, “thanks to a surge in drive-by shootings.”

On May 31 alone, 18 people were murdered in Chicago – the city’s most violent day in 60 years according to Paul Cassell, a law professor at the University of Utah. Elsewhere, American cities saw ‘similar spikes in mayhem, all tied to the street violence unleashed by the death of George Floyd,” a black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis PD on May 25 after an officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes, while having fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system – and being COVID-positive – at the time of his death.

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‘Dangerous’ Language Like “Defund The Police”, from Techno_Fog

Posted on June 15, 2020 | 1 comment

It’s hard to read much ambiguity into “Defund The Police.” From Techno_Fog via zerohedge.com:

Op-Ed by attorney and investigative journalist @Techno_Fog,

“Defund the police” is quite the rallying cry. It’s a policy statement in five syllables. The language is clear and meaning is impossible to miss. The next steps after defunding the police, however, do require explanation. To whom does a community turn for its security needs when a police force is defunded and therefore eliminated?

Once you understand that there is no good answer to this question, then you get why the media has designated itself as the spokesperson of the movement. It becomes clear why the media has so graciously explained to us, the dumb public, why defunding the police does not mean defunding the police. Take this explanation published in the Washington Post:

“Defunding the police means shrinking the scope of police responsibilities and shifting most of what government does to keep us safe to entities that are better equipped to meet that need. It means investing more in mental-health care and housing, and expanding the use of community mediation and violence interruption programs.”

Of course, the movement disagrees. The New York Times is running op-eds with the title “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police” by an author whose stated goal is “to abolish prisons and police.”

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