It's Dodge City, Baby!

A total of 503 New York City police officers have filed for retirement since May 25th.  That would be the date that Geoge Floyd died.

That's the number so far.

Retirement applications are up more than 330% nationwide over a year ago, same time.  I wonder what it will be a month from now?

This number would be much, much larger, except for Mayor Bill De Blasio (real name, Warren Wilhelm, Jr.;  If I'd lived with and helped the Sandanista communists in Nicaragua, and then honeymooned in Havana, with Castro's help, I'd change my name too).  He just put through a $1 Billion Dollar Police Department budget cut, trimming the current $5.7 Billion dollar budget by more than 15%.  He also disbanded the NYPD's 600-man plainclothes drug and gun task force, depriving the citizens of their primary violence reduction resource.

And shootings are now up more than 300% as a result.

In fact, gun violence is at a rate not seen in more than 25 years.  A rate not seen since Rudy Guiliani swooped in and cleaned up New York City so very long ago.  Sigh!

His doing so has left the office that processes the retirement applications short-staffed.  This left no room for overtime, whether for policing the streets, or for providing administrative support to their cops.  Instead of an increase in the Police Department's budget, as had been requested, they just got hammered with this 15% reduction.   Only one part-time, half-day staffer is handling the retirement applications, with only 20 - 25 being accepted PER DAY, while up to 100 other officers are left standing in line, every day, disappointed.  

Once again, that's 20 or 25 officers putting in for retirement, PER DAY!  

That's a lot of very expensive, highly-trained talent being lost, don't you think?  Most police officers choose to serve well past their 20-year retirement window, so as to continue not only earning a living, but padding their ultimate retirement income as well.  25 years is the universal goal.  Yet NYC police are now leaving in droves just as soon as that 20-year calendar milestone is reached.

Perhaps their departure should tell us something...

I predicted several months ago on the pages of this august little blog that this current anti-police vendetta we're experiencing would cause officers with less than 5 or 6 years on-the-job to bolt just as soon as they could find alternative employment.  That means moving themselves and their families and their law enforcement experience to Wichita, KS, or Rapid City, SD, or Savannah, GA, or Omaha, NB.  And those over 20 years would retire immediately, thus avoiding all the anti-police unpleasantness (read: bullsh*t) now unfolding in America's biggest, and bluest, cities.

Three months ago cops were considered a part of our vaunted "first responders."  They were being applauded, loudly, along with our nurses and doctors and fire people.  There were parades for them.  The Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds did fly-bys in all the big cities for them.  Roses were thrown at their feet as they passed by...

Now?  Their lives are at risk.  They now face hatred and violence every day they go to work, which is why many just don't.  More than 300 cops have been injured in the past three months and some 18 have been killed, murdered on the job.  The "Blue Flu" has attacked more cops in our bluest big cities than has the Coronavirus.  On any given day as many as 15% of their active-duty cops are out "sick." 

And instead of roses, the "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matter" Marxist revolutionary thugs are now throwing bricks and crowbars and frozen bottles of water at them, hoping to wound, or even kill.  And yet, the perpetrators are seldom, if ever caught and prosecuted.  And if caught, they'll likely be granted no-cash bail and be back on the streets by lunchtime.  NYC and Lost Angeles have pioneered this little judicial nicety, meaning that any alleged crime short of murder leaves you with a "get out of jail free" card anytime you feel like breaking the law.  

There was one recent case worthy of the retelling.  This past May a car thief in Glendora, CA was chased by the cops.  A gun fight ensued, injuring one cop.  The perp was captured, arrested, booked...and then released on a no-cash bail.  He then proceeded to steal another car, got caught, and got released once again.  And then he stole ANOTHER car and was caught, and released.  All of this occurred between midnight on one day and noon the following day.  12. Total. Hours.  Does this make sense to you?  That's just how unbelievably stupid our laws have become in our biggest, and bluest, cities.  And how unbelievably stupid our lawmakers are in our biggest, and bluest, cities.  And a reason, perhaps the main reason, citizens are leaving in droves...

Do you think our police should be playing "catch and release" with our most dangerous felons?  Me neither...

NYC has already defunded its police force.  More cuts are expected soon.  Lost Angeles has cut its cop budget by $150 Million.  Minneapolis is planning to cut its police budget by 50%!  So is Seattle.  It even voted to decouple its 911 program from Seattle's police department operations!  

Can't you just imagine your midnight emergency call to 911 being answered by...Wal-Mart?  Or even worse, by the local chapter of "Black Lives Matter?"  

Something tells me these miscreants aren't smart enough to stop while they're ahead.  And they're waaaay ahead!  They'll continue their efforts to defund and eliminate the police in our biggest, bluest cities until they've achieved their goals.  However, that means that police in our smaller communities, along with the 100+ million American gun owners, will be at odds with the policing in our largest cities.  And the miscreants in those bigger cities might then decide to bring their little clown show to the suburbs. 

And that is where it will end.  With a thud.

Once again, have you noticed that all of this nastiness has occurred only in Democrat-run cities?  Only in the cities where Democrats are the governors, and mayors, and police chiefs?  Not a Republican anywhere to be found?  Worthy of note...

Can't you just imagine what would happen if a hundred or so black-clad "BLM" goons decided to take their little "protest" on the road to, let's say, Springfield, Missouri?  That would be the end of that "BLM" posse.  And the only thing Springfield's police department would have to do is clean up the mess...

Might I remind you that the last great high noon-style gunfight of the Old West occurred on July 21, 1865 between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt on the streets of Springfield.  Hickok drew his .36 Colt Navy Model revolver and shot Tutt right through the heart...from 75 yards away.  It seems that Tutt made Hickok mad.  Not a good idea to make a guy with a gun real mad, especially if he knows how to use it...  

Those hoping and praying that this national crisis we're all now enduring will somehow magically end, fuggettaboutit.  They want to get back to "normal."  Well folks, that's not going to happen.  Not so long as there's a General Election in less than three months.  In fact, I'd say that this nastiness we're now facing is actually because a General Election is upcoming.  I'd say it's being manufactured by those who wish to destroy our system of government and install socialism in its place.  

It seems that POTUS Trump and 100+ million American gun owners are the only ones standing in their way.  What are you going to do to help?