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As I was reading one of the endless posts<\/a> decrying the crime wave that has a ignited across America I was reminded of a conversation I had with a friend about this.\u00a0 I was saying that the cities that still had enough sane people would have to reauthorize the police to restore order and then restore the police tactics and policies that were shown to work back two decades ago in places like New York, things like broken windows enforcement.<\/p>\n

This friend is a rabid opponent of the police.\u00a0 He is a libertarian that would like to see open carry as the solution to violence.\u00a0 When asked whether he would be glad to see a policeman instead of a gangbanger if he found himself at night in a really bad neighborhood he replied he\u2019d much prefer that his gun was there to protect him.<\/p>\n

Putting aside the small proportion of the population that would prefer to shoot it out with the bad guys personally, I thought about where all this anarchy is leading.\u00a0 And what I concluded was that we\u2019re all going to have to choose sides.\u00a0 For a large but not majority section of the population the police are a gang that harasses their people.\u00a0 The largest part of this section are urban blacks.\u00a0 They have been the recipients of stop and frisk and other urban anti-crime tactics.\u00a0 So logically they are the most opposed to the activities of this \u201cgang.\u201d\u00a0 Other components of the Left are the other opponents of the police.\u00a0 Some of these components like the whites and the Asians do not themselves suffer from these policies and tactics.\u00a0 In all honesty they are the beneficiaries of these programs.\u00a0 But in solidarity with their fellow partisans and in the spirit of doing what they believe is \u201cthe right thing\u201d they take the side of the urban blacks and decry the \u201cinjustice\u201d of these police intrusions on the activities of young black men.<\/p>\n

But now things are changing.\u00a0 The activities of the other gangs, the ones that up until now have mostly only impacted the residents of the destitute black neighborhoods, are being felt everywhere.\u00a0 Smash and grab theft is happening exclusively in affluent white areas of the cities and carjackings and drive by shootings and just plain assaults and murders are spreading to every neighborhood of these unpoliced cities.\u00a0 Now that makes the calculus of these leftists more complicated.\u00a0 How much pain, fear and uncertainty must be accepted in order to show support for their black brothers?\u00a0 And even for black residents of the inner city, which gang do they fear more?\u00a0 Sure, the cops are white outsider oppressors of the neighborhood ecosystem but what about the local gangs that now shoot up the neighborhood more or less with impunity.\u00a0 Is it worse if your eighteen-year-old brother gets frisked by the cops on Friday night but then goes on his way or that he gets gunned down by some neighborhood kid who is auditioning for the local amateur version of the Bloods and Crips?\u00a0 And forget about adults what about your three-year-old daughter who is sleeping in her crib and suddenly is struck by a stray bullet when rival gangs fill the air with lead on your street?<\/p>\n

Back in the 1990\u2019s New York City chose the police as the gang to back in the war that was playing out on the streets of New York.\u00a0 But that was a very different New York City.\u00a0 I think it will take a long time for the minority majority population of New York City to figure all this out.\u00a0 But that is what has to happen to set things right.\u00a0 In this \u201cdemocracy\u201d we supposedly inhabit the people have to wake up from their social justice daydream and realize that the police are the least dangerous gang that is needed to keep all the other gangs from running amok.\u00a0 Sure there will always be rogue cops and sure the police will always to a certain extent use their privileged position to tilt the scales when one of their own is at fault.\u00a0 But that is just human nature and it is seen everywhere people interact.\u00a0 It\u2019s no different than what politicians do every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s what we all do when we\u2019re in charge of anything from a little league team to a corporate behemoth like Google.<\/p>\n

So my prediction is when the pain and fear reaches 51 % of the city population, they\u2019ll bring back the cops and put down the gangs.\u00a0 That is of course if the gangs haven\u2019t gotten too strong in the meantime to outshoot the cops.\u00a0 At that point we\u2019ll need the Marines to restore order.\u00a0 Sort of like Mogadishu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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