Twangbanger
Grandmaster
- Oct 9, 2010
- 7,137
- 113
Fair enough, and reasonable people can have different opinions on this. And maybe I do agree with your position after all, because what I fear is that this is no longer a far-right or far-left concept, but rather has become a "center-left" and "center-right" position, the newly-redefined "responsible center" with people like Ryan Mears and Joe Hogsett being in perfect alignment with each other, and no room for anyone who thinks otherwise. In another 10 years, it will probably lose any ideological flavor it ever had and just be the accepted normal, but it will not be normal for citizens who have to live with the consequences of it and they will literally have no options to represent their views.Not a rabbit hole I'm willing to spend the time looking for specific threads or rehashing to deal with the resulting butthurt (not from you, mind you) that inevitably comes with these conversations. If you see it differently or believe I'm way off base, I'm ok with that.
Law enforcement is mostly reactive, and the "new managerial mindset" is to hate anything that is reactive. When in reality, a properly functioning system needs both proactive and reactive elements. The "managerial center-left" is so obsessed with proactive, systemic preventive measures, they've gotten confused and see anything reactive as wrong-minded and a poor use of resources. But without reactive enforcement to "keep the bushes pruned," all that proactive money and solutions just gets swallowed by a jungle.
It is a shame, because people who support the police, are eventually going to come to not really support the police, not because of any particular animosity toward them, but simply due to the practical realization that since the Civil Rights Lawfare Machine won't allow law enforcement to actually be effective (because it's reactive and deals with things that already happened and entails risk or the possible violation of someone's rights or both), it's essentially pointless. Once the people see the police can't do much for them, it's a small jump to "we might as well just cut their budget and replace them all with social workers." Law Enforcement becomes like a gun you don't have ammo for.