Taking over a crime-ridden New York City in 1993, Mayor Rudy Giuliani applied the Broken Windows Theory approach to crime in which small crimes are enforced as a means to create an atmosphere of law and order.
Liberals have for 20 years denied his success reducing crime as mayor had anything to do with him, much less this theory.
But under Obama, liberals began proving Giuliani was most correct. Today, as the Black Liberation Movement (aka Black Lives Matter) takes over cities, Democrat-run cities are turning into shooting galleries.
Blogger K.T. Cat had a nice roundup:
- In Atlanta, traffic stops are down 80%. No big deal? Total arrests are down 71%. The cops have walked off the job while still getting paid.
- Chicago set a record for shootings last weekend. The middle of the week hasn't been much of an improvement.
- Minneapolis had at least 1,600 gunshots in the last 30 days, almost all of which came from the black neighborhoods.
- In Tampa, cops were ambushed by a black mob when they responded to a call about a shooting in a black neighborhood.
- New York City shootings have doubled since the anti-police riots began.
- In Portland, the police allowed an anti-cop mob to lock them in one of their precinct houses. They didn't come out to defend it, but cowered inside.
- In Milwaukee, a mob attacked the police and firemen as they responded to a case of missing teenage girls.
This is not an overnight nightmare. Democrats have planned this BLM rioting for a long time, and have actually held test runs in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore. Apparently, they are satisfied with their finished product.
But the breaking of windows has been going on for some time. First, Democrat mayors and the like stop enforcing drug laws. Then they make it OK to pee in the street. In California, the state government stopped enforcing shoplifting laws. Los Angeles started allowing hobos to put up pup tents.
This is the Democrat plan for America.
America's cities have regressed and will fall much, much further before they hit bottom. They may never rise again because I do not see any Giulianis on the horizon. Do you?
I'm following Col Kurt's advice: selling my beautiful home in urban and buying rural property with a special ammunition and weapons room.
ReplyDeleteGood idea, but if the mobs come, as ANTIFA indicated, then you need to organize the neighborhood. In my case, I have a farm and recognized if I had the whole nearby National Guard armory's weapons and ammo available, I could not defend myself and my wife 24/7. So my friends and relatives have agreed if it hits the fan they will bring food and other necessities and rally at my farm. As in New Orleans during Katrina, I expect law enforcement to defend their own families and cannot blame them.
DeleteAfter hearing some tales about Iraq and Korea, my major defense rifles have bayonets attached. The idea of meeting steel, when I watch Civil War movies, gives this vet the chills.
Amr, I would make a stand away from your property. I had nothing in common with the Branch Davidians, but look at the effect on their property. Might also want to watch a few Zombie Apocalypse episodes.
DeleteDon forgot to mention giving all a get out of jail free card so they don't get the virus.
ReplyDeleteBut Dan Bongino explained this so even I understood it. When you stop someone for shoplifting, peeing in the street or some petty offense -- you run them for warrants. There are far to many outstanding warrants for cops to chase down. But the minor offense works to self identify likely wanted criminals, I mean when was the last time anyone reading this shoplifted or peed in the street? It gets them off the street and into jail for their prior crime. Result? Much more law and order - much less chaos.
I agree.
DeleteI was recently stopped for a headlight out and no front license place. The deputy took my license back to his SUV and took a look. He was gone for a good two minutes. When he came back and returned my license, I said, "So, no outstanding warrants?" He didn't think that was funny. I should cut him some slack. Guys like him get shot every week. Regardless, it's sad to see humor disappear from society, like a lot of other good things. - Gary B
DeleteGary - I was taught by my mother to always THANK the police when they stopped me. In each case, I KNEW I was exceeding the speed limit.
DeleteSometimes I got a ticket, sometimes not but always thank the cop for stopping me at the outset and thank when he hands me the ticket.
You're right. I shouldn't have yelled, "Hands up!" That was stupid. - Gary B
DeleteCurrently many Blue municipalities the police are effectively on the side of the criminals and rioters. Because they're violent and scary. Much easier to run the law-abiding in for lucrative infractions, because the law-abiding generally don't get violent.
DeleteThey may change real soon if this keeps up.
TarsTarkas
There may be Giulianis but the denizens of the cities are too stupid to vote for them. These city dwellers are getting what they voted for...good and hard. - GOC
ReplyDeleteCan't you just see it? A dumb-ass leftist running from his burning house to vote for another Democrat. - Gary B
DeleteNot sure if this is going on in Boston, but Gov Hutchison's house got the 'treatment' from Boston patriots in 1765 after he supported Geo III's Stamp Act.
DeleteWe chased all of those Facist/Tyrant supporters once, will have to do it again a few centuries later....
Not the point.
ReplyDeleteExcept for transportation nexi and cultural centers, cities' purposes have been made obsolete by digitization.
No more cities, no more blue states.
The beast devours itself.
Which is why the left's control of the digital domain is so problematic.
DeleteThe mayors we read about in Chicago, Baltimore, NYC, Seattle, San Fran, LA, Mayor Pete Buttgag, Corey Spartacus etc. show the stupidity of the voters in these hellholes.
ReplyDeleteThese are the voters who will destroy this country if the liberal wet dream of abolishing the electoral college get their wish.
If these cities hit rock bottom, can even a Rudy Giuliani save them in two terms?
I doubt it. Unless the whole city structure changed at the same time, it would be a Giuliani against the criminals and the legislators. not many can make any progress against that.
DeleteAgree. It would Trump vs the Deep State writ small.
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"Los Angeles started allowing hobos to put up pup tents."
ReplyDeleteThose aren't hobos, they're bums.
"...a hobo is someone who travels from place to place looking for work, a tramp is someone who travels but avoids work whenever possible, and a bum doesn’t care to work or travel."
https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/11/26/the-difference-between-hobos-tramps-and-bums/
As I recall Hobos were men (and the occasional woman) who rode the rails to find seasonal work and Tramps were those who walked from place to place in search of work.
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Read about Robespierre and his movement.
ReplyDeleteEerily similar.
Guillotine anyone??
" In California, the state government stopped enforcing shoplifting laws." Politico rates this mostly false because it only covers theft less than $950. Over $950 still subject to arrest.
ReplyDeleteIs is possible blue state voters will tire of this before anyone accepts this as Trump's fault?
Won't matter whether they accept or not. California has so rigged the voting system that I suspect it will take bullets or a federal intervention to correct.
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If we let them the Democrats will turn the US into Venezuela.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a long time since the United States depended on the health of city centers. In no small part the only reason Democrats emphasize city living is because that's the way it was Way Back When. Like listening to a Union barker rattle off the litany of "Management Sins" like it was 1920 again, the Democrats have produced no new ideas and completely missed the move of most of the population away from their Hell Holes.
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Thanks for the linky love!
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