If police are disarmed, either by actually having no sidearm (or maybe just a taser), or practically by being accused, investigated, indicted, convicted, and not supported by their community and "leaders" - then who will be the police?
If police are disarmed, either by actually having no sidearm (or maybe just a taser), or practically by being accused, investigated, indicted, convicted, and not supported by their community and "leaders" - then who will be the police?
200 years of federal jurisprudential activity aside:
Tenth Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
New Use of Force Continuum
Wag index finger
Wag index finger in concert with a noticeable harumph
If a minor with a firearm, threaten to tell their mother
If none of the above are succeeding, stamp foot
Stamp foot loudly and wag finger simultaneously
In the event none of these have had the desired effect...
Run away!!!
There's nothing civil about this war.
Perhaps my meaning was unclear. If, tomorrow, every police officer in the USA were to suddenly quit, the vast majority of local communities would very likely form their own “citizen police” to bridge the resulting gap.
You see a form of this in some churches with internal security designees.
In all seriousness, I (thankfully) can’t imagine the state of mind of whatever administrator cooked up this insane plan in the first place.
I'm waiting for this to happen...
Headline: Police Department Commended for Country's First Gender Affirming Non-Lethal Shooting
That's what you get when you call the woke police.
P.S. @blues I shouldn't have had to write this. You're slacking.
Gaming will get you killed in the streets. Dueling will get you killed in the fields.
-Alexander Hamilton