Brian Fallon, Former Press Secretary for Hillary Clinton and Democrat Visionary. Democrat controlled cities are bound to become safer with this idea. Crime will plummet, businesses will voluntarily stay, and no one will be fleeing NYC, Chicago, etc... Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio is a visionary and an inspirational source of wisdom for the people of NYC. This idea is a winner! https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/mayor-lightfoot-pleads-with-walmart-to-not-abandon-chicago
What a bunch of complete clowns. Like I said before, I support this idea. Let these places become complete and utter cesspools.
I don't want to end up paying for the result. If the stupid stuff they are doing in liberal cities was isolated to those liberal cities I would not care. But I can see a day where those cities seek federal funding to recover from their folly. For a long time my tax filings have been very safe and risk averse. I feel like I need to mitigate my exposure by adopting extremely aggressive tax strategies and filings going forward. I'm told I can get pretty close to neutral even with the additional accounting fees. I can handle the occasional audit. The last time the IRS decided to have a close look at me they ended up having to cut a check to me for $8000 as the audit went slightly in my favor. Audits pick up IRS errors as well as your errors. The logic eludes me. Uncontrolled crime and violence appears in your city and you elect to defund the the crime fighters. I think the Federal government is going to administrate some of these cities by consent decree after suing them. Failure to protect life and property might be some kind of civil rights violation. When Trump is reelected the gloves are coming off.
Unfortunately both of you are in a position where you still see the police as Barney Fife going door to door on his beat and greeting the nice old ladies, striking up conversations with the neighborhood, kids, etc. You know - doing actual police work. In my lifetime I have never seen this type of police officer. However boomers I know say that at one point they were like this. We pay more of our tax dollars to cover police mistakes than you are losing because of so called "liberal cities". You are 58x more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. Police have no duty to defend, qualified immunity, and virtually zero repercussions for senseless violence against civilians. Who pays for the civil suits and criminal attorneys when a police officer screws up? Yep, you guessed it, the tax payer. The current iteration of police must go back to it's roots for people to take them seriously as true upholders of law. Remove qualified immunity, require bodycams to automatically upload footage, make it so the cameras cannot be turned off, and bring in a third party reviewer that is independent of all law enforcement. People are rightfully scared of the police. Punish police officers with the same severity as court martials. With the militarization of the police we don't have law enforcement as much as an occupational force that roams the streets. We need to change that. Bring back Barney Fife.
That's quite a leap for you to suggest I see the police as Barney Fife and suggest I am a boomer (I am not). I don't argue that there is a lot of waste in the police force and corruption throughout. I also don't have any issues with anything in the paragraph above. But getting rid of the police entirely? I'll say it again, there are 800,000 police officers on the street. We hear about 10 a year? Maybe 20 that cause issues? If you're going to go after waste and corruption, why on earth would you start with the police? Why not go with the politicians? Get good politicians in charge and they can legislate good changes to the police. I mean, pie in the sky is all about shooting high, right? In the interim, get ready for mass chaos on a scale no one wants and understands.
Good post. But... I'm from Bunker Hill.. uptown. The police there shoot first and ask questions never. When I live somewhere normal I'm always amazed that the police aren't looking to kill me. LA is a special kind of messed up.
Let's be clear in a retail environment already under financial pressure prior the riots - the large retailers including grocery stores are going to leave downtown areas in droves.... and they won't be coming back at least for a couple of decades. This will be a set back for downtown "re-development" since all the residential development and business that use these stores will also disappear. The administration of these cities have no one to blame except for themselves. If you allow riots to freely loot businesses with no intervention then don't expect businesses to stick around.