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I keep thinking about what happens when the cops are truly gone and won't be coming back.
Something that I keep considering is how our legal system goes so very light on first offenders.
The punishments aren't deterrents to potential criminals and a record is a rite of passage for some.
This assumes that the police can even be bothered to come for relatively minor crimes.
However, the law abiding citizen is deterred by the threat of punishment for resuming the police role presently delegated to the cops.
But what if the cops aren't there and aren't coming back?
Suddenly there's no light punishments for first offenders.
The home owner doesn't call the cops who will not arrive before the thief can leave with what they've stolen from the home owner's car. The home owner shoots the thief.
Home owners don't make suspicious persons calls, they just kill those who don't belong in their neighborhood.
They band together and get to know each other better for mutual benefit.
Civilization returns on a micro level. The neighborhood might even pay a few neighbors to do the "shoot the suspicious" job.
That's how vigilance societies progress into being police, by the way.
What's most fascinating about this is the people who are going to need the cops the most once civilization crumbles past a certain point are the ones driving the elimination or hobbling of them the hardest.
The rest of us are only using them because we'd certainly be punished for resuming our rightful police power from a state which has abdicated it.
Angus, I'd propose that the ones who are really pushing to defend the police are the same rich liberals who are behind so many other leftist causes. They can hire private security, so it's no skin off their nose - or so they believe. Unfortunately, too many are happy to follow the crowd with just a little encouragement.
ReplyDeleteI saw an interview with the chief of police of an Arizona town a few years ago. There was a police strike in progress and he was asked what the effect would be on the crime rate. He said that it would go down. The interviewer was shocked and asked why that would be. The chief said that most of the people in town were armed and would probably just shoot criminals if there were no police to call.
ReplyDeleteHe went on to say that criminals always preferred to be taken by the police rather than random citizens. Thus they would be less likely to commit some kinds of crime until the police came back.
Yup. Committees of Vigilance will spring up all over. And the Rule of Law enforced by any CoV has always been a rather harsh interpretation of the basic laws of society, with equal harshness in the punishment phase. Actually caught doing bad things, well, there's a tree or a wall or a bunch of rocks or...
ReplyDeleteRight now the legal system is geared towards the criminal, protecting and encouraging the little bastids, from robbing the local convenience store to mega-white collar crimes and even murder.
this is my though on a lot of this...when otard was in office, his goal was a federalized police force...anything run by government is already a cluster fuck and a money pit...anyway, the going light on people will eventually make neighborhoods resort, possibly, to vigilance, giving them a reason to ban guns...they won't let officers do their jobs and that makes the pd's look bad, they defund them, makes officers want to leave, feds move in...it's all part of some messed up libtard plan to get rid of guns...panzer guy
ReplyDeleteTo further the pain of Committees of Vigilance, they will return to pre-Quaker punishments, which means corporal and capital. Whips, stocks, hard labor or death. It's the only way CoV have worked out. Work around the corrupt legal system and go straight to real punishment.
ReplyDeleteIt has happened before, it will happen again. What do you thing Rooftop Koreans were? A boy band? Nope. A Committee of Vigilance. Just like they had in San Francisco, twice, in the 1800s. The Koreans didn't have cannon, but they had better firearms.