{"id":16145,"date":"2021-10-07T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=16145"},"modified":"2021-10-07T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:51:35","slug":"brilliant-leftist-journalists-reveal-whats-wrong-with-dying-leftist-cities-too-many-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/brilliant-leftist-journalists-reveal-whats-wrong-with-dying-leftist-cities-too-many-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Leftist Journalists Reveal What\u2019s Wrong with Dying Leftist Cities \u2013 Too Many Police!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this pair of articles,<\/p>\n

Minneapolis Is About to Vote on Whether to Dismantle the Police<\/a><\/p>\n

The Past 2 Years Have Left Portland Reeling. What Kind of Recovery Comes Next?<\/a><\/p>\n

written by leftist loons, we are educated by the authors on how it\u2019s not the fifteen months of riots, murder, arson and robbery that have made their cities hellholes that tourists avoid and residents flee for safer places.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually the police that are the problem.\u00a0 And remember these two cities, Portland and Minneapolis are governed by the most anti-police city governments in America.\u00a0 Both cities are actively working to dismantle their police departments.\u00a0 So effectively there is no policing going on in either city.\u00a0 The police, such as they are, barely make their presence known.\u00a0 They wait until the crimes have occurred and show up to record the details for police reports that can be used by the victims for insurance purposes and to direct the ambulance or morgue truck to the bodies, living or dead.\u00a0 But the articles are clear that it is systemic racism that is killing these cities.\u00a0 Although the Portland article is clear in telling us that Portland is safe and vibrant.\u00a0 It\u2019s only prejudice and racism that is spreading the false impression that the city is a dirty, abandoned shell of its former self, filled with homeless encampments and homicidal drug addicts.<\/p>\n

These articles are very long so you might want to skim them.\u00a0 Better advice is just skip them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done the public service of reading this crap for you.\u00a0 I think the take away I got from these articles is that even in the leftist bastions of Portland and Minneapolis it is getting difficult to sell people on the \u201cdefund the police\u201d narrative.\u00a0 They try, they really try.\u00a0 We get thousands of words about policing being slave control and Jim Crow and blah, blah, blah.\u00a0 But I think they\u2019re trying to sell all this to people who just want their lives to go back to normal.\u00a0 And not just white people.\u00a0 Minneapolis has become very dangerous.\u00a0 And that has been noticed by the black neighborhoods.\u00a0 The change impacts everyone.\u00a0 The white neighborhoods have seen an enormous increase in property crime but also things like carjackings.\u00a0 But it\u2019s in the black neighborhoods where things have gotten out of hand.\u00a0 So, it will take a lot of talking in circles to convince the black population in Minnesota that they really want to get rid of the police.<\/p>\n

Portland is one of the whitest big cities in America.\u00a0 Their problem is the enormous homeless population.\u00a0 Druggies come from far and wide to live in a place that reflects their values.\u00a0 When there was a working police force, it could be kept under control.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s gone.\u00a0 So, you have antifa and BLM rioting, the homeless defecating in the streets and addicts robbing you at knifepoint but Portland wants people to think it\u2019s a \u201cvibrant\u201d and safe place to visit and live.\u00a0 It turns out that\u2019s a hard sell.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to me to see if these two cities are able to convince their residents to get rid of their police.\u00a0 Maybe they can.\u00a0 Leftists are very good at ignoring reality.\u00a0 Maybe they can make it happen.\u00a0 But if they do, I\u2019d guess that the size of these cities will shrink way down.\u00a0 Most people want to live in a place where they are safe.\u00a0 And this goes double for families.\u00a0 It takes a really hard-core leftist to be willing to let her kids be victims of street crime to prove a point.\u00a0 But the writers of these articles sound like they just might be crazy enough to try.\u00a0 It does indeed take all kinds.<\/p>\n

So good luck to you folks in Portland, Minneapolis and of course Chicago and New York.\u00a0 You\u2019ve made your bed and now you get to sleep in it.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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