It’s strange how the defund the police movement lost wind after the Democrats cheated themselves into the White House. Sheer coincidence, I expect. The return to sanity is most notable in Seattle where the Bolshies and the spineless civic bureaucracy got the police on the run. Now with a new mayor Seattle is paying $25k bonuses for cops to sign up. Reality has sharper teeth than ideology.
They have to pay mad bonuses in places like Portland or Seattle after crazily demonising all police officers.
Douglas Proudfoot
2 years ago
My Florida grandson has just been admitted to a STEM PhD program at the University of Chicago. Normally, you would think everyone would be pleased, because it’s an excellent program. We live in North Suburban Chicago, so we’ll get to see him more. However, my wife and I are worried about the crime down near the U of C. People get shot down there. If he had been accepted anywhere else, we would have preferred he go there, instead of Chicago.
Democrats control Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois completely. Their agenda is high taxes, high pensions for government workers and high crime through lack of prosecution. Occasionally, Republicans win an office, like governor. However, since they don’t have even a strong minority of seats in the state legislature, a single Republican in office can’t do anything much to bring sanity to state government.
Democrats have wrecked Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois, with high taxes and increasing crime. There’s almost no hope that Republicans can reestablish any control at any level that matters. People leave here for a reason.
R Wright
2 years ago
No mention of the evil ‘white flighters’ here then? I thought evil white people moving to the suburbs and no longer paying taxes in the CBD was meant to be primarily responsible for urban decay, or at least from what these metropolitan liberal elites say
The only ones who really want to defund the police seem to be the young, white Zoomer class (your metro elites) seeking a cause and who are addicted to social media.
When they end up turning those places into the places they just left.
Richard Falardeau
2 years ago
All the major cities that you mentioned have participated in the Covid Show! The damage is done!
AC Harper
2 years ago
“How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)” is perhaps becoming “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Up in the City (After They’ve Seen the Burbs?)”.
You can argue that technologies becoming ‘ubiquitous’ have shaped how we live. Ubiquitous transport, power, sanitation, literacy, radio, TV and now the Internet have all had their effects. You might even, in a pessimistic moment, think that ubiquitous crime has had an effect too.
Derrick Hand
2 years ago
The coming food and fuel shortages will be eye opening, especially in the larger cities. Mankind has tripled in number since I was born in 1948. Is it possible that we have outrun our ability to supply ourselves with the means of sustenance?
Ted Ditchburn
2 years ago
It could be that the Conservatives might have attached the label of Levelling Up to an idea that is actually running with an unstoppable tide for once…and even if the Manchesters, Leeds and Newcastles struggle a bit, the Harrogates, Yorks, Durhams, Boltons, and the like might be laughing fat cakes.
It’s strange how the defund the police movement lost wind after the Democrats cheated themselves into the White House. Sheer coincidence, I expect. The return to sanity is most notable in Seattle where the Bolshies and the spineless civic bureaucracy got the police on the run. Now with a new mayor Seattle is paying $25k bonuses for cops to sign up. Reality has sharper teeth than ideology.
They have to pay mad bonuses in places like Portland or Seattle after crazily demonising all police officers.
My Florida grandson has just been admitted to a STEM PhD program at the University of Chicago. Normally, you would think everyone would be pleased, because it’s an excellent program. We live in North Suburban Chicago, so we’ll get to see him more. However, my wife and I are worried about the crime down near the U of C. People get shot down there. If he had been accepted anywhere else, we would have preferred he go there, instead of Chicago.
Democrats control Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois completely. Their agenda is high taxes, high pensions for government workers and high crime through lack of prosecution. Occasionally, Republicans win an office, like governor. However, since they don’t have even a strong minority of seats in the state legislature, a single Republican in office can’t do anything much to bring sanity to state government.
Democrats have wrecked Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois, with high taxes and increasing crime. There’s almost no hope that Republicans can reestablish any control at any level that matters. People leave here for a reason.
No mention of the evil ‘white flighters’ here then? I thought evil white people moving to the suburbs and no longer paying taxes in the CBD was meant to be primarily responsible for urban decay, or at least from what these metropolitan liberal elites say
The only ones who really want to defund the police seem to be the young, white Zoomer class (your metro elites) seeking a cause and who are addicted to social media.
What is evil about wanting to get away from high crime, crap schools with violent enwords in plenty, and live somewhere nice, eh?
When they end up turning those places into the places they just left.
All the major cities that you mentioned have participated in the Covid Show! The damage is done!
“How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)” is perhaps becoming “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Up in the City (After They’ve Seen the Burbs?)”.
You can argue that technologies becoming ‘ubiquitous’ have shaped how we live. Ubiquitous transport, power, sanitation, literacy, radio, TV and now the Internet have all had their effects. You might even, in a pessimistic moment, think that ubiquitous crime has had an effect too.
The coming food and fuel shortages will be eye opening, especially in the larger cities. Mankind has tripled in number since I was born in 1948. Is it possible that we have outrun our ability to supply ourselves with the means of sustenance?
It could be that the Conservatives might have attached the label of Levelling Up to an idea that is actually running with an unstoppable tide for once…and even if the Manchesters, Leeds and Newcastles struggle a bit, the Harrogates, Yorks, Durhams, Boltons, and the like might be laughing fat cakes.