Of all the most discouraging aspects of the breakdown of civilization we have been living through the single worst was the orgy of violence and destruction that the Blue State and City governors and mayors unleashed on their cities.\u00a0 Forcing the police to stand down and allow the mobs to terrorize and victimize the innocent people of these places was horrifying.\u00a0 And the consequence of this decision has been the ascension of criminal urban gangs to dominance over the streets of these cities.\u00a0 The consequences of this have been unsustainable for law-abiding people trying to raise families and make a living.\u00a0 Businesses are subject to random and overwhelming attack by mobs of smash and grab thugs stealing everything of value and threatening violence or even shooting and killing the patrons and employees of businesses.\u00a0 And every city dweller is subject to random violence at any time.<\/p>\n
This state of affairs is similar to what went on during the Middle Ages when marauders and pirates would descend on a coastal town and rape and pillage and burn whatever they wanted to, leaving the inhabitants terrorized and devastated.\u00a0 The threat was only finally ended when the local nobles figured out that building walled towns and recruiting a standing army was the only way to defeat the Viking incursions.<\/p>\n
Now we already know that the only way to suppress crime is to have a strong and effective criminal justice system.\u00a0 You need a professional police force and a carefully calibrated court and prison system.\u00a0 It can be neither too draconian nor too lax.\u00a0 Too strong and the citizens will feel enslaved, too weak and the criminals will rampage across the countryside.\u00a0 But once you break that system you can\u2019t just click a switch and reactivate it.\u00a0 It will require an effort and a conscious decision by both the government and the people.\u00a0 By necessity the people will have to empower a champion whose job it will be to reconquer the areas that have fallen to the barbarians.\u00a0 And that will of necessity require that the actions be severe and possibly exaggerated.\u00a0 Death penalties may have to reappear in order to make an example of the worst offenders.\u00a0 But none of this will happen until the people despair of fixing things by half measures.\u00a0 The police won\u2019t take the risk of prosecution for using deadly force unless the people signal their desperation and their clear agreement to the use of drastic measures.<\/p>\n
I do not imagine we are anywhere near this point yet.\u00a0 Idiots like the mayor of San Francisco will talk about empowering the police to stop crime an restore order.\u00a0 All that talk is just noise.\u00a0 It means nothing.\u00a0 Even Eric Adams who was elected in New York to be a law-and-order mayor has already signaled by his choice of a black woman diversity candidate for police commissioner that any talk of law and order will be lip service.\u00a0 I\u2019ve often facetiously talked about cannibalism breaking out in the blue cities.\u00a0 Well, it may be a joke but I think things will have to get a lot worse before they get better.\u00a0 Maybe once some billionaire has his child kidnapped for ransom the rich people will realize how close to third world banana republic we\u2019ve sunk.\u00a0 Or maybe a gang lord will shoot up a school yard and the sight of fifty dead kids will bring people to their senses.<\/p>\n
But whatever the exact circumstance, I think it will be crime that finally snaps this country out of its stupor.\u00a0 When that happens whoever has the courage to lead that crusade will find enormous leverage to make big changes to our government.\u00a0 And hopefully he\u2019ll be smart and wise enough to make them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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