Overcoming A Bow Wave Of Filth

SanFran elected London Breed as mayor. She is a black woman, so they've got that going for them. Now that they've spent years hating on the cops, accusing them of racism and brutality and years weakening their law enforcement, they have so much crime, homelessness and drug use that Mayor Breed is asking the Feds for cops to help them clean up the sitch.

Mayor Breed and her buddies defunded the cops after trashing them for being racists. As a result, they're 540 cops short of full staffing. That means the SanFran police department is operating at about 75% combat strength. The increase in crime, drug use and homelessness suggest the enemy forces have, for the sake of discussion, doubled in that same time.

Anyway, dig this.

Three years ago, San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed announced a plan to defund the police. Now, with the city short 540 police officers, and a rapidly growing area controlled by violent drug dealers, the mayor is finally asking the federal government to help. pic.twitter.com/VOpcdwVsVZ

— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) April 1, 2023

Well, at least she's trying to deal with the problem, right?

Let's think about the mechanics of the solution.

First, where are the Feds going to find the cops to backstop the SFPD? Is there a big ranch out in Texas where trained police officers roam the chapparal, waiting for cop cowboys to round them up and take them to the feed lot to prep them for SanFran?

How many extra Feds does the City by the Bay need? 540 won't do because the enemy is much larger than normal. Let's say they need one battalion of Fed infantry - about 1,000 cops. That would get things under control quickly and allow SF to get back to a normal sized police force, releasing about 500 Feds back onto the fantasy cop ranch. The remaining Feds would be out of luck. They would have to stick around until SanFran could recruit, train and deploy 540 more new cops.

But wait a minute. How long would this take? If it takes longer than a month, the Feds would have to move to SF. Have you seen rent prices in SF? At more than a month, the Feds would want to relocate their families to SF. Have you seen the streets and schools of SF? Unless the Feds treat their cops like the Army treats infantrymen, giving them no choice of assignments, how are they going to find ones willing to go?

If you're a white Fed cop, how insane would you have to be to voluntarily work for the SanFran political structure? It's not hard to game out just what might happen if an arrest of a Citizen of Color went sideways.

Even if you find these leprechaun cops, then what? Do you have the legal infrastructure ready to handle a massive load of cases as the bad guys are arrested? Not likely. You don't just need cops, you need lawyers, lots of them. Some will be prosecution, some defense and some judges. I suppose there's a lawyer ranch out in Kansas to mirror the cop ranch in Texas.

Right.

How about jails? If you arrest a swarm of people, where will you put them? Maybe you could lock them up in all of the abandoned office space in SanFran. Maybe you could use the husks of abandoned Walgreens as jails.

The Great Sort means that blue areas get bluer and red areas get redder as sane people leave California, Illinois and New York. How many scenes of addicts and pushers resisting arrest and then getting roughed up by cops will the hard left polity stand before the new cops find themselves facing trial and the public appetite for law and order wanes?

This is part of what I've been on about here on the blog. The progs don't know how anything works. If you allow your city to fall to ruin, you can't reverse the process by returning to status quo, you need to dramatically strengthen the centripetal forces of civilization for a time. After that, you can go back to the previous normal.

Good luck getting this thing under control.

This is a long way from playing itself out here in CA.

Chicago

Meanwhile, Chicago has thrown in its lot with a black racist. Here's a bit about the closing arguments of Brandon Johnson, the guy who won the mayoral election yesterday.

Race-baiting has become Johnson’s go-to campaign tool. Last week, he all but outright stated that Vallas was racist, accusing him of “being dismissive of a black man who taught for four years in Chicago Public Schools.” His concern with the COVID-19 pandemic was “to make sure that black and brown people in particular did not continue to die.”

All criticism of his campaign is just “yet another attack on a black man as an elected leader.”

 Expect Illinois to get even bluer. The Great Sort continues.