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In a fight between a good big man and a good little man, the good big man will generally prevail. In a straight-up shootout, a small female police officer is the equal of a large male predator. But police use their firearms rarely, and only as weapon of last resort, to stop a lethal threat or attacker. More regularly, their job, in a confrontation, is to subdue the suspect, and, if necessary, take him into custody. Here, the smaller, female officer is at some disadvantage.
The contest was more equal when police used impact weapons. A baton, nightstick, monadnock baton, Kubota, saps, and so on, allowed the officer to stun, control manouevre or incapacitate a recalcitrant suspect. A pistol displayed in the hands of an officer the felon understood was reluctant to use it, was probably less effective in affecting compliance, than a sharp blow to the wrist, elbow, knee, or shin. But impact weapons use has been banned by most jurisdictions as brutal, and control techniques like the knee-in-the-back, and the carotid choke have also been generally abolished – methods which enabled a trained smaller and lighter officer to subdue a larger opponent.
The female officer, thus found herself stripped of tools allowing her to protect herself and the public from larger male offenders. (Short of lethal force, the use of which would take her off the force and give her to the courts.)
Women were admitted into American police forces to correct discriminatory practices. But without the impact weapon, pain avoidance techniques, and the control of jiu-jitsu, the woman street cop is at a disadvantage. Most streetfights go to the ground, and, there, she is in danger. But government, which can never be seen as wrong, equaled the playing field. Under California Penal Code section 242: resisting arrest, is now generally charged only as a Class One Misdemeanor and prosecuted infrequently.
Then, in the 2020s California District Attorneys had shoplifting decriminalised. Any theft under $1,000 was allowed, and neither store employees nor the police intervened nor were allowed to do so — the cops, first hamstrung, were then ordered to “stand down”. Like the tactical evisceration, this move led to the (internally) logical suggesting that police be banned altogether. See: The Knock-on Effect: fairness in diversity hiring; fairness to suspects, then fairness to criminals, after which, there would be no need for police.
This adolescent confusion of fairness and justice has led our country to the last brink of dissolution. For the question is “who is being far to whom?” Is fairness to female officers unfair to the now under-protected citizens who pay them? Is depriving them of adequate offensive and defensive weapons fair to police?
We’ve had a decade of shrieking about “fairness”, by those unfit to ponder Milton Friedman’s: “When some government program is proposed to ‘help’ a group, we need to ask, ‘Whom does it harm?’” The question, historically (if aspirationally), was addressed not through a debate about “fairness and equity,” but through the process of jurisprudence.
Justice means deciding between the conflicting claims of two petitioners by reference to previously determined laws. A mature citizen understands that every claimant (himself included) initiates his claim with some reference to “fairness”, but that this fairness can only mean “That result I prefer”. Every loser in a court of law knows he was treated unfairly. The universal (and moot) claim of “fairness” allows the protestor potential access to the news-cam, the podium, and a leg-up in a court system dedicated to “Social Justice”.
There is no such thing as social justice. It means “fairness”, a metaphysical concept defensible, finally, only by a reference to “feelings”. But its application is easier (as improvisational) than a dedication to the codified common sense of the community, that is, Law.
Perhaps even more than that of the cops, the brotherhood of firefighters seems unlimited and inviolable. The police are always at risk, but much of that risk is potential, while the firefighter, every week in the career, will be working at on or in a burning building, at the end of the hose, or going up a ladder to save lives. Their mutual devotion, as Joe Wambaugh explained in Fire Lover (2002), grows, in shared, mortal danger, undertaken with the absolute assurance that his brothers will back him up and come for him unhesitatingly at the risk of their own lives. But, at some point, up the chain of command, that brotherhood was replaced by a commitment to “DEI”, a concept not recognised by fires.
Today, Los Angeles is still burning. My family was evacuated, and has just returned after two days to our house, which is still in the “warning” area. Many of our friends have lost their homes.
It has been known for decades that massive brushfires were fueled by debris and blowdown, which should have been regularly cleared. On August 31, 2023 Circling the News reported that Pacific Palisades Community Council President Maryam Zar contacted her Assemblyman about concerns regarding brush abutting her land. “She was put in touch with Richard Fink, California State Parks District Superintendant II. He attended the August 24 Community Council meeting and explained that the state does not do brush clearance of park land because ‘we’re here to protect the natural habitat’.”
In an email to Circling the News, it was explained, “The department works closely with the Newsom Administration and other State departments to improve and expand forest management on state owned land to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildlife fires and improve forest and wildlife health.” But where the state land ends, habitation begins, and what unutterable fools would suggest a wildfire would respect the boundary? Answer: the Newsom Administration.
Brushfires on uncleared State Land have been devastating California for years, and the ecosystem Newsom’s commission was protecting did not extend to human beings and their property in the Palisades, or Altadena, or Franklin. And, so, the largest and most catastrophic fire in Los Angeles history resulted from fairness. Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Bass, and Fire Chief Cowley, though not on the hose, have been in the frontline of the Struggle for Fairness.
Fire Chief, Kristen Crowley, wrote to the Board of Fire Commissioners on December 4, 2023, that budget cuts “have adversely affected the Department’s ability to maintain core operations”. Karen Bass had just cut 17.8 million dollars from the fire department’s budget. But according to CSB News, “When asked about the budget cuts at Thursday morning’s Press Conference (January 9, 2025), Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said they did not impact the department’s ability to handle the ongoing fires.”
Yet many hydrants had been stolen for scrap and never replaced, as periodic inspections had been cancelled due to budget cuts; and hydrants ran dry in the Palisades and in Altadena, where firefighters were reduced to filling their tanks from homeowners’ garden hoses. County officials said this (shortage) was to be expected due to the constraints of the municipal water system, which LA County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella said, is “not designed to fight wildfires”. (LA1st) One must ask why it is not so-designed, and, as always, what happened to the taxes we pay to insure public safety?
So where did the 17.8 million go? According to the department’s website: “Creating, supporting, and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of the communities are Chief Crowley’s priorities, and she is grateful for the opportunity to serve the City of Los Angeles.”
Mayor Karen Bass just returned from vacation in Ghana during the fires, was interviewed by Sky News last week. Asked if she had anything to say to the victims of the disaster, had she any apology to make, and where was the money cut from the fire department, she remained silent.
If wildfires don’t care about DEI, it can only be because they’re racist and probably sexist. I’m sure that the media will back me up on this; any day now I expect to see headlines proclaiming CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: WOMEN, MINORITIES HARDEST HIT.
I recall the disproportionate deaths in poorer parts of cities during COVID in UK. Clearly a racist disease.
Rather than poorer people, likely with more underlying health conditions, living in higher higher populate housing in higher density areas meant more deaths.
Thre was a thing about Covid at the time that said people in the UK are old, fat, cramped, unequal and much visited, all things that increased the impact of the disease.
Wildfires are white-adjacent.
This excellent article offers a profound examination of a society crippled by misplaced priorities and the abdication of accountability at every level. It reveals a dangerous trajectory where political correctness, bureaucratic incompetence, and a fixation on “fairness” have systematically eroded public safety, leaving citizens and frontline responders vulnerable. From under-equipped police officers hamstrung by illogical policies to firefighters denied critical resources due to budget cuts masked as equity initiatives, the repercussions of leadership failures are laid bare.
Politicians and bureaucrats deflect blame while the fundamental institutions designed to protect the public falter under ideological experiments and gross mismanagement. The lesson is clear: societal “fairness” without accountability leads not to justice but to chaos and human suffering. The ultimate betrayal lies in the false promises made to taxpayers, who bear the brunt of failures disguised as progress, while leadership evades scrutiny with empty platitudes.
This is not just a policy failure—it’s a moral one that demands a seismic shift in priorities and accountability.
I’m sorry, citizens voted for them. I read the stories of the fire victims in the Free Press. Here are quotes from one woman, age 51:
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On Tuesday when the winds picked up, I took some videos of my enormous Newfoundland dog, Hugo, sitting in the front yard, his fur blowing dramatically and his body standing firm even in 60 mph winds. A few hours later I saw there were deadly fires in the Palisades, some 25 miles away, and felt badly for posting fun videos on Twitter, though not badly enough to take them down, since they were getting a lot of likes. Around 6:30 I learned of a fire in Eaton Canyon, a few miles to my east. I learned of it on Twitter.
There were still no phone alerts so I didn’t think too much of anything until I walked into the front yard around 7:15.
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I live in Altadena (it seems strange to put that in the present tense but even stranger not to, so we’ll stay in the present). It’s a foresty enclave at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Pasadena. The elevation is about 1,500 feet, the population is about 42,000, the racial makeup is relatively diverse. There’s always been a significant black population.
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These are the thoughts of a college freshman (freshwoman in her case). She chose her leaders. She chose her priorities:
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The tweets were getting a lot of likes and it’s a pity to delete them!
The racial makeup is relatively diverse, …significant black population.
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She deserved what was happened with her
Nobody deserves to have their house burn down just because we disagree with their politics. Where is your compassion?
The in relation to these fires is the same as that we have here in relation to grooming gangs: impunity. The State of California will not punish these cut-and-dried cases of misfeasance in public office any more than the British state will make accountable the police officers and public officials who enabled the grooming gangs for so long. Throughout the West the ethos of public service has been irreparably damaged by post-modern ideology.
We need, in both countries, to explore the use of class action in MIPO (Misfeasance in Public Office) claims. It’s no use criticising institutions, the individuals corrupting them must be made accountable.
“This is not just a policy failure—it’s a moral one that demands a seismic shift in priorities and accountability.”
Very nicely put.
When your city is being burned down, it’s important to know your pronouns.
No, it’s important to know other people’s pronouns.
When your city is burning down, it’s important to know your pronouns.
Are the fires “he/him” or “she/her”?
Probably one of those recently made up which nobody can pronounce.
I’m entirely persuaded by this article but, as the author knows better than me, California has been mismanaged for decades by the “progressive” left, but still Californians vote for leaders such as Bass and Newsom. Does he really believe things will be any different once the current outrage dies down?
My sense is California has to reach rock bottom before change will come. And by rock bottom I mean its principal money-makers, and Democrat supporters, notably the major tech companies and VCs, will have to quit the state and let the fiscal coffers, like the hydrants, run dry.
It will be interesting to see now how keen Hollywood is, in backing the latest fashions in ‘social justice’.
In a democracy, the citizen is sovereign and the voter is king. Just one foolish king can bring down a nation. How much more so for a populace composed of many foolish sovereigns …..In the Golden State, the people vote for these “wise” leaders, whether they perform well or poorly. Ask yourself, what impetus do they have to perform, when they know that there is no failure of office which will suffice to cause their citizenry to “throw the bums out”?
These people don’t need democracy, they need the whip.
Down vote was from the leabian dei gire chief who wants so e short sexy crew cut short chicks and not those big beefy and sweaty and fratty men…
Live by dei…burn by dei.
What is a “gire chief”? What does “who wants so e short sexy crew cut” mean?
It takes a complete moron to NOT understand what “gire chief” is. How stupid are you, Mikey-boy?
If you persist in voting for stupid politicians you get stupid outcomes. It is not as if California voted in stupidity on the basis of 33% of the voters as we in the UK did.
Ah, that would be a little over 30% of the votes cast – schturmer only had 20% (1 in 5) of the eligible voters give him their assent. I wonder how many of them now have buyers’ remorse? Paraphrasing Ms Kate Moss, (peoples’ philosopher) “no joined up policy works as well as smugness feels” . Further i think the “stupid” excuse is starting to look a little thin – rape gangs, arson, etc etc? – Even if leftists start stupid their attempts to carry on despite the dire effects of their hate based policies means venal, wicked or evil are more accurate now. They don’t have a monopoly on stupid but certainly seem to be the GOAT compared to other political movements.
Eventually, this social experiment that is progressive politics will run out of steam and common sense will prevail. And there will be a correction back to where the government does actually work in the interests of the governed. For a while at least, or until there are sufficient deluded voices who cry ‘but it wasn’t done properly last time’ and petition to have another crack at lunacy.
This is, after all, the Golden State, a place like the past where they do things differently.
Historically there is very little evidence of despots, tyrants or oligarchs giving up voluntarily. (Apartheid RSA and some Eastern Bloc states are the only ones i can think of and both had big caveats – former stasi or mafiosas in plain view and doing well from the new deal).Common sense will hopefully prevail but likely at the cost of many lives.
Greece came close in 1974 when the colonels gave up the struggle. How the country went from right wing dictatorship back to democracy is a fascinating read.
As the saying goes, “socialism ends when they run out of the money of others”.
You get the government you deserve
So i guess the logical corollary is “you get rid of the government you don’t deserve?” When i heard about the govt cancelling local elections it did occur to me that UK has form fighting that sort of ruler – De Montford, Cromwell and William of Orange are examples. Drilling down into the story it seems as well as Labor’s kneejerk “too stupid to vote” view of their opponents there are also Tory boroughs desperate to avoid democracy as they will get trashed by Reform, or the limp dims. If they keep this up the “Overton Window” will have to include black powder recipes and the works of Debray or Guevarra lol
Democracy as a form of government is always the best form of governance. The problem is democracy is not merely the right to vote, but the ability to affect change and kick out underperforming governments.
Those large cities, and California, don’t have democracy, as a large population – blacks, some Hispanics, single college educated women – will vote for demrats come what may.
Hence its really the equivalent of Rome or Sparta, but instead of the soldiers and productive citizens controlling the state, it’s the least productive and useful segments.
At least the silly headline made me llol,; otherwise, Mament’s gotta get caught up on what research shows surrounding female cops and de-escalation
Please enlighten us.
So, in other words, female cops are equivalent to social workers. Most bad guys understand social workers – they know that physical force beats whining and bleating.
As the Manchester Airport incident illustrates, female police officers have no de-escalating effect on individuals from a culture that deprecates women.
Surely it was her fault for putting her nose right where his fist was aiming?
I’ve heard many people who rail against DEI claim that we will see services collapse as a result of poor hiring and promoting. Is this an example of this? It seems likely.
I’ve often looked at some of the female uniform officers in the UK and thought “I’m not sure they’re physically up to the job”. The much circulated video of the female officer receiving a broken nose at Manchester airport (and the resulting boot to the head of the assailant) may not have happened had it been a large fella attempting the arrest.
Like so many theories, DEI sounds nice. Sounds fair. And on a piece of paper. Or a laptop screen it almost works. In reality, it’s laughably bad. Bordering on ridiculous.
Women should not be in combat infantry, firefighting, or police. They cannot cope physically.
The problem isn’t the DEI hires etc, and it’s far worse than that. That “didn’t earn it” crowd are useless and incompetent, we know that, they themselves know that for all their “can do anything the white man can do” rubbish.
The real concern is, once you distort incentives, make a mockery of ability and disparage masculinity and masculine virtues such as heroism, stoicism and patriotism, the productive male population’s morale and willingness to sacrifice themselves also collapses.
Hence, just 110 years after millions of Brit men happily signed up for a deadly war and trench warfare, today Britain has it’s smallest standing army in a couple of centuries or more, and still can’t find enough men to enroll.
Women aren’t going to fight wars, as Ukraine has shown, but that a given. The problem is, the men won’t as well now, for a nation that doesn’t respect them.
And similarly, you don’t have enough men willing to be truck drivers, builders, or men willing to slog away to feed and house their families.
DEI is not just a few useless workers, it’s societal rot.
. . . once you distort incentives, make a mockery of ability and disparage masculinity and masculine virtues such as heroism, stoicism and patriotism, the productive male population’s morale and willingness to sacrifice themselves also collapses.
A good phrasing that sums it up.
I think it’s more complex than that. A lot of jobs are fake it till you make it.
An issue with dei hires is that they are beholden to those who hire them above others who are more qualified.
I’m sure this is a great article but the poor grammar makes it so difficult to read.
Was it Mayor Bass or Fire Chief Crowley who was responsible for the diversion of fire dept cash to DEI? It’s not clear from the penultimate paragraph versus the fourth from the end. Or do I need another coffee this morning?
Clearly the USD 17.8m were misspent but let’s not pretend that if they hadn’t been, the fire would have been put out straight away – that’s a facile and fatuous inference.
It would be a poor inference. However, if $$$ had been spent on forest management and water supply the wildfires may not have got such a grip in the first instance. In both cases there’s evidence that state authorities didn’t spend those $$$ because of ‘environmental concerns’….
That’s a fair point but the article is framed differently – just look at the title.
It’s a shame that the few adult, sensible people like David Mamet in that part of the world have had to suffer because other people seem only able to learn the hard way.
It really is time for DEI and EDI to DIE
Until you arrest and publicly beat every celebrity who lost a home and who demeaned us for voting for trump, nobody will change…
I’m finding it very difficult to summon up much in the way of sympathy for these Hollywood celebs who have lost one of their houses.
“what happened to the taxes we pay to insure public safety?”
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what happened to the taxes we pay to *ensure* public safety?
Does anyone in power give tuppence for “public safety”? Not much evidence of it I can see.
One wonders if living with the consequences of their voting decisions will make people think twice next time. Somehow, I doubt it. The average partisan would rather be boiled alive that admit that his team was wrong.
Even ignoring the human impact to all the burnt out families etc the pure financial cost of the destruction will surely mean that decent funding and prevention of such a huge fire/s would have been a massive financial saving. But hey progressive Govt doesn’t care about such things when it can pretend to look out for nature etc (a nature which inevitably has frequent fires and is a vital part of the cycle).
Defund the politicians! 🙂
Oh dear, as usual DM writes beautifully but does talk some nonsense! I’ll post individually starting with “police use their firearms rarely, and only as weapon of last resort, to stop a lethal threat or attacker.” One would hope and expect that to be so in the overwhelming majority of cases, but evidently that is not “only” so.
Here’s another one: ” in the 2020s California District Attorneys had shoplifting decriminalised. Any theft under $1,000 was allowed,” It didn’t take me long to check that out – https://www.guidelinelaw.com/shoplifting-in-california/ . If you disagree please link to something authoritative to say otherwise, don’t just downvote.
There’s this: https://www.ppic.org/blog/commercial-burglaries-fell-in-2023-but-shoplifting-continued-to-rise/
And this: https://www.hoover.org/research/why-shoplifting-now-de-facto-legal-california
And the fact that the new laws (passed in late ’24) are designed, evidently, to plug the holes which previous legislation dug.
But beyond the stats and the wording of the laws themselves, there’s the question of police practice and prosecutorial behavior. Even if a theft is illegal…will the police be called….if called, will they pursue the thief…if arrested will Gascon (no longer there) and his acolytes spend the time and $’s to chase the tiny-dollar-criminal in the courts.
I think the answer demonstrated over and over again out there in LaLa Land is no…probably not.
And “Women were admitted into American police forces to correct discriminatory practices.” I think that in practice, women are better at many aspects of policing than men; in the UK we don’t have many women on those racist/sexist disgusting WhatsApp groups sharing crime scene photos for kicks. I don’t think that women pcs would have been quite so quick to dismiss the stories of those abused girls etc
Social workers are mostly women, many did dismiss the grooming gang stuff. In fact, they could see it right before them but did nothing.
You are very likely correct, Tony. It’s in front line policing roles that many women seem less suited . In back room, detective and analysis roles they potentially have equal or even sometimes superior potential
Even front line policing where the probability of violence or confrontation is low they might be an asset I can imagine.
But sending them out on Saturday night pub closing patrol, or on riot control duty, is just perverse.
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“Yes, “Der Ring des Nibelungen” is widely considered a tragedy of power, as the central narrative revolves around the destructive consequences of the pursuit of absolute power through the possession of a magical ring, with characters succumbing to greed, betrayal, and ultimately, their own downfall due to their obsession with its dominance. ”
Is this article Mamet speech ?
Indeed. Who is being far to whom?
Right on. As a former police officer in my younger days, I have always laughed at movies and shows that portray a 130 pound female police officer taking bigger men down with dazzling regularity. Didn’t happen, doesn’t happen and it is a real risk for an excellent police officer, male of female, to engage in physical altercations. It can be a crap shoot for a man and a terrifying event for a woman. Blue Lights, the excellent police series set in Belfast has an episode when a hood punches one female officer in the nose and she goes down hard, the other female police officer pushes the hood on the ground, but he soon overpowers her. Her use of mace was the only way she had to keep from being badly injured.
This is real, not bullshit DEI propaganda. A properly trained and physically fit police officer doesn’t have the nightstick, sap, or baton I did but mace and other tools can be used from a distance without physical contact. There is absolutely nothing wrong with diverse hiring of gender, nationalities, or cultural differences, they have to be competent. If not, you end up with the situation in LA, and countless other cities where the citizens who pay taxes for police and fire services to be protected end up homeless or victims of violent crime due to incompetence. The other negative outcome is that the DEI hire who is not competent can suffer injury or death when placed in these life-threatening situations. Not really fair or good for good for them either.
Time will tell if the shit will hit the fan in LA, and what the possible outcomes will be. It certainly won’t be the same but will it be enough to rid us of the inept, angry, and greedy bastards that have held sway over the last 10 years?
‘AfD endorses controversial ‘remigration’ as German election race tightensParty’s co-leader pledges ‘total closing’ of borders and mass deportations of immigrants if it wins power next month’ The Telegraph
Sounds bit N—
Why blame DEI? It’s like blaming an arm for a brutal attack. Whose arm is it?
This ridiculous article and all the truly stupid comments in reply are exactly why I’m letting my UnHerd subscription lapse. Have fun in your echo chamber, morons!
The focus on DEI in relation to the California fires is a red herring meant to scapegoat minority groups. If DEI is truly the issue, why are we reaching across the world to bring in South African experts who are highly skilled in firefighting? These same South Africans helped Canada a few years ago with great success. Fires like these result from systemic failures, not from who was hired. This scapegoating is just another distraction from the reality of a declining empire unable to manage its own issues—is not it very Christian like, always finding a sheep to sacrifice. Let’s focus on real solutions, not manufactured blame.
Did anyone else commenting here on this LA fires post have to verify their identity with “select all images with a fire hydrant”?
Among other things; the endless suppression of small forest fires will lead to very big forest fires in the long run- especially when fuel clearance is not taking place, as the article suggests it wasn’t.
Should you be moved to disagree, my pronouns are thou/thine…
The Death Spiral of Deliberate, Consciously Crafted Mediocrity…inexorable, irresistible….it ends only with death and dissolution amidst the ashes of utter, unmitigated disaster… and the terrifying reality of professionally weaponized incompetence. Here we are. Los Angeles has arrived,
Tens of thousands of acres burned, thousands of structures incinerated, block after block of homes turned to smoking piles of rubble, piles of bodies, trillions of dollars of waste…. Why? And what could have been done to — if not avoid — significantly mitigate the scope and pain of this catastrophe?
It starts with little things; it always does.
Seduced by the Progressive lie that ‘disparate impact’ means racism, means sexism, means evil White Supremacists oppressing the under-represented ….the governments we form to protect us, serve us, and keep us safe, turns and tears at us. For our own good, they say.
Rather than looking for the best, to train the best, to build the best, to maintain the best and make it better….regardless of skin color, genital configuration, or sexual preference (a task difficult enough when that is, indeed, your goal)….we begin the seductively easy and entirely self-righteous process of bringing in those who — while not the best — are of the ‘right’ color or sex…because Diversity, because Inclusivity…because Equity & Social Justice. We know the rest.
If you’re lucky they’re maybe just as good…but nobody really believes that, even if they are. They’re tainted from the get-go with the broadly, though silently, shared expectation that they’re hired because they make the quota (even when there is no quota). We all know where the bread is buttered and by whom, for what. The odds are better that they’re not as good. They don’t have the background, or the interest, or the talent. The lacks are painfully obvious, but what the heck, they’re a small cog in a larger and generally successful organization…so we can compensate, bring ’em on.
And so it continues.
And the Mediocre who perform in an exceedingly average way are promoted. If it’s good to have a DIE-Guy at Level 1, it’s even better to see them at Level 2 & 3 & 4. They then propagate, begatting even more mediocre sub-hires (don’t like feeling threatened). And on and on and before you know it, the generally successful organization is sputtering and increasingly failing. Call it the Fire Department, the Government, the Water Management Groups, whatever. Things don’t work quite as they should….and the people who used to be able to fix it, aren’t there…or just don’t care anymore. More dollars spent on DIE Training, Inherent Bias, and Anti-Racism Initiatives than on improving emergency response times, getting better equipment, and better training. After all, priorities are priorities.
Throw in the Climate Change insanity which has allowed fanatics to dictate countless laws and regulations that prevent, slow, outlaw, or hobble any and all efforts to build more reservoirs, or capture snow melt, or clear flammable organic debris, or improve access to vulnerable areas, or or or or.
After all, there are E-car incentives that must be established. Homeless initiatives that must be launched. Parties in Ghana that must be attended: DIE DIE DIE, the chorus sings.
So bluntly: we don’t have the right people leading any of these organizations which have themselves been hollowed by decades of AA hires and confused & contradictory operational priorities….all that hamstrung by decades of Progressive, Hyper-Climate programs which have choked-off even a chance of building the kind of real-life ‘firebreaks’ that could have slowed, prevented, or significantly ameliorated this disaster.
Welcome to the Death Spiral. Maybe now it can begin to change, now that they’ve destroyed what they’re charged to protect.