This week’s riots were probably made worse by 40 million out
of work people who need some entertainment after a couple of months on lockdown
at home. That 40 million is out of work
because of state government orders closing down their employers.
Many of our citizens are law abiding. I don’t have any numbers, I hope that the law
abiding are the majority. A large number
of citizens are lawless. Again, I lack
numbers but I sincerely hope we have more law abiding than lawless
citizens. The most lawless have close
encounters of the cop kind and wind up in jail.
The medium lawless will take advantage of a riot to pick up a new TV or
a new computer, but usually don’t engage in burglary and shop lifting for fear
of getting caught. Only the police and
the courts keep the lawless citizens in check.
I am hearing calls from the left to abolish the police. God help us if that ever happens. The lawless will over run the country. We need police and courts to keep the lawless
in check.
The police have a
strong sense of comradeship. They stick
together. It is extremely hard for a
police department to lower the boom on misbehaving cops, because the department
is made up of cops and all cops feel they need to protect and defend fellow
cops from hostile citizens groups. I’m
thinking every department has a few, one or two, maybe more, bad cops who ought
to be off the force. But they don’t get
the boot like they should because of the feelings of solidarity with everyone
on the force.
The only fix for
this problem is an independent group of non-cops running an agency that finds
bad cops and indicts them and pushes the paperwork thru to get them kicked off
the force. Maybe a federal agency like
the anti-trust lawyers group at the Justice department.
Or we could use the Cambridge
solution. Cambridge
MA, better than twenty years ago, had a
very offensive Officer De Luca. He
patrolled the public housing projects in Cambridge
and was a real pain in the ass to project residents. One fine day Officer De Luca’s cruiser became
stuck in Cambridge traffic. Suddenly the doors of his cruiser were yanked
open, Officer De Luca was pulled out of the cruiser, and the locals beat the
stuffing out of him. It was noticed that
Officer De Luca’s behavior in the projects improved greatly after that.
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