Long time readers of this blog know that I am absolutely against police brutality. But it needs to be understood that not all police use of force is brutality.
As the great Robert A. Heinlein wrote in Starship Troopers:
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”
Police brutality is wrong. But when you take away the ability of the police to use any force whatsoever, this is the result.
Not are London police effectively disarmed, the rules of engagement they operate under tie both hands and one leg behind their backs when it comes to being able to use the little bit of defensive force they have (truncheons and pepper spray).
As a result, a group of British police are herded by the crowed, driven from the street to hide inside a government building as people threw things at them as the ran away.
This is the future of policing in the United States if the Left gets its way.
Police departments that are not disbanded will be disarmed and forced to operate under such restrictive ROE that they will be ineffectual.
It’s not about reducing police brutality. There are other things we can do to reduce that (and we should). This is about emasculating police until they have no choice but to turn tail and run away as soon as a couple of thugs put up resistance.
These cities will turn into chaos once the anti-cop politicians make it easy for criminals to drive the police off the streets to hide indoors.
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