The negative consequences of Democrat attacks on police

 Stephen Kruiser:

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The “Summer of Mostly Peaceful Fiery Violence” is two years in the rearview mirror now, and much of the country has moved on. The super woke commie blue cities that Granny Boxwine and the rest of the Democratic elite embraced are — SURPRISE! — facing a bit of a cop shortage, though. It turns out that His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama is the only Democrat who can routinely crap on law enforcement and still receive adequate armed protection.

Athena wrote yesterday about the sorry state of affairs in one of the showcase progressive hellholes from two years ago:

Progressive American culture has become so anti-law enforcement that police agencies across the country are struggling to hire adequate personnel. The problem is most pronounced in large urban centers, and a shocking new video illustrates the depths to which community relations with law enforcement have sunk.

Seattle, Wash., Washington, D.C., St. Paul, Minn., and Minneapolis, Minn., are among the prominent cities currently looking for someone brave — or foolish — enough to head up their police departments. Let’s zoom in on Minneapolis.

Unless you were in a coma, you heard about the fine, upstanding Minneapolis citizen, George Floyd, who ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl and passed away after fighting with cops and being subdued with one officer’s knee on his neck. Fiery riots and lengthy jail sentences for the officers ensued. Unsurprisingly, two years on, the Minneapolis Police Dept. is more than 100 sworn officers short of the minimum legal requirement of 731. MPD currently employs 629 officers; compare this to the 902 sworn who served there just weeks before the Floyd death.

Honestly, I’m surprised that there are that many cops left there after the viciousness with which city officials turned on law enforcement in the effort to canonize George Floyd.

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Meanwhile, the dregs of their local societies will almost surely be looking for any excuse to peacefully protest and pick up some more free merchandise with the blind-eye blessing of the Democrats in charge.

The left doesn’t have principles or ideas that translate well into coherent policy; it merely has slogans like “Defund the Police” that get a lot of play in the criminally irresponsible mainstream media.

Many of America’s blue cities are going to find out that governing by hashtag has severe and long-lasting consequences.

I suspect it is hard for Democrats to admit they made a mistake with their attacks on police.  The Floyd case was blown out of proportion because the cops were slow to get medical treatment for a thief dealing with a self-induced drug overdose.   

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