The Police Force Baltimore Deserves

by JASmius



Which is to say, a police force that has been functionally instructed not to enforce the law.  And the result?  Not cops shooting suspects, but what would once have been considered suspects shooting each other and innocent civilians with wild, unfettered, bloodthirsty abandon:

Ten shootings were reported Thursday across Baltimore, continuing a spate of gun violence that began after riots overtook West Baltimore on April 27th. At least three of the victims died.

About forty people have been shot since April 28th, the day after Baltimore's most intense day of rioting.

Police said eighty-two people have been killed this year, twenty more than at the same time last year. Nonfatal shootings also have surged 47%, to one hundred thirty-four this year from ninety-one last year at this time.

Did I mention that Maryland has some of the most suffocating gun control laws in the country?  Rendering the entire State, and most definitely its largest city, a "soft" target?  Something tells me Pamela Geller won't be holding a "Draw The Prophet" event in the City of Charm any time soon.

But if you disarm the law-abiding citizenry, the cops become their only defense against chaos and anarchy, right?  So what happens when the cops are effectively declared the REAL criminal element?

This:

“I’m hearing it from guys who were go-getters, who would go out here and get the guns and the bad guys and drugs. They’re hands-off now,” Butler said. “I’ve never seen so many dejected faces.

“Policing, as we once knew it, has changed.”

Lieutenant Victor Gearhart, a 33-year veteran who works in the Southern District, said residents with complaints about police “are going to get the police force they want, and God help them.”

As I keep saying, life is a function of incentives.  If you deter and, well, "handcuff" law enforcement, you will encourage crime waves without limit or precedent, every country, and eventually every city, will become a "war zone," and the public outcry to restore order will become deafening.

And that, my good friends, is called "martial law".

Incentives.

Today, Baltimore, tomorrow, America?  Would you bet against it?