I’m nit sure it takes a lot if intel to be able to fill in the blanks. If they don’t get what they want they will riot. If they get what they want they will celebrate. Same difference.
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Looks like a "No" bill (other than the wanton endangerment).
Let the riots commence. :rolleyes:
This. I have been retired, 2+ years, from a big-city PD. I don’t need to ask any of my former colleagues about LE-only intel. My intuition tells me that this is going to be an “interesting” next several days, so my personal def con one has been activated.
Edited to add: Much as I try to adopt a stooped-little-old-man demeanor, I still have “look like a cop” mannerisms, and have to be careful not to walk with that slight swagger, with my arm moving so as to clear a big duty pistol on my right hip. Plus, I am easily “dox-able,” without the need to hack anything.
I fear that local LE is being squeezed from several different directions. The left already is applying pressure for perceived systemic racism. Support from regular citizens is simultaneously being eroded by a perception that police are allowing property destruction out of fear, and elected prosecutors are selectively prosecuting those who attempt to defend it.
My parents are selling their city home for the deep suburbs because they don’t believe that the police will protect them. Several of their neighbors are looking to pop smoke. When people leave that support police in the most fundamental way by actually following the law, it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy with the criminals who remain.
You're not wrong.
It'll (unfortunately) be a while before we get a needed dose of:
https://youtu.be/icCmo2p6w8g
I’m just unsure how that is going to happen, although I desperately wish it would. We’ve already seen the hostile takeover of entire city blocks (where people were murdered), police precincts, and private property with little in the way of repercussions from legitimate authorities. For the record, I generally do not like the idea of citizens using lethal force to defend their property - especially when their is a vigorous law enforcement presence to prosecute property crimes. However, this changes for me when the police are unwilling to provide a deterrent. So, how are people going to react if law enforcement participates in the selective prosecution of people using lethal force to protect their property, while simultaneously allowing widespread looting and arson?
I look at it like we're on our own. If we get backup, it's gravy.
I don't mean that to come across in melodramatic fashion. Simply a fact.
If someone were to attempt a breach of my residence, there's no way that the sheriff's office responds before the incident is over, or well in progress...unless a deputy just happened to be in the area.
I don't spend a lot of time fretting over it, we live in a great area in that regard...but I take nothing for granted either.