{"id":15211,"date":"2021-07-14T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:41:51","slug":"14jul2021-city-journal-why-cops-are-quitting-by-charles-fain-lehman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/14jul2021-city-journal-why-cops-are-quitting-by-charles-fain-lehman\/","title":{"rendered":"14JUL2021 &#8211; City Journal &#8211; Why Cops Are Quitting by Charles Fain Lehman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/why-cops-are-quitting?wallit_nosession=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s an article<\/a> where the writer interviewed policemen who had either just resigned or were preparing to.\u00a0 He gets their read on why policing the blue cities is no longer worth the personal risk.<\/p>\n<p>A newly retired Minneapolis officer said, <strong>\u201cAnd the fundamental conclusion that I reached was that following Derek Chauvin, it no longer matters if what you were doing was legal, trained, the morally right thing to do, reasonable under the circumstances, the best effort of a reasonable human being in a marginal circumstance, which is basically what cops do. 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