Defund Stupidity

Defund the police. No. Defund the Police unions.

Remember the baseball steroid era when supposedly clean ballplayers railed against the steroid cheaters? Ironically, it was the ballplayers union, along with some money hungry greedy owners that protected the cheaters until protecting the cheaters was no longer possible. So the clean players were paying dues and supporting the activities of the union that was benefiting the minority of cheaters against the interests of the majority of non-cheaters.

Much the same, the majority of good cops, a far greater percentage of the whole than the majority of clean ballplayers, continues to fund and support the police unions who protect the much smaller number of bad cops. But as you see in the streets across America today, with far greater consequences than someone breaking someone else’s home run record.

I have many friends that enjoy the legitimate benefits of union protection. If you are one of them this is not about you or your union. 

And whether the murder of George Floyd was committed by a good cop having a bad day or a bad cop, both are inexcusable, is also not the point.

The point I am trying to make, probably rather clumsily, is that the good cops have to demand that unions no longer protect the careers of bad cops. Root them out. Now!

So much talk about defunding the cops, most of it self serving panderings from useless elected officials. Defunding, or in the case of the far left lunatic fringe in Minneapolis, dismantling only makes the jobs of the good cops harder. And the predictable result will be a country that is less safe, indeed more dangerous for the law abiding taxpayer.

Root out the bad cops. Root out the bad union policies. And root out the alpha male psychology that exists in many male dominated domains, such as the police precinct. Because the bad cops aren’t just bullies on the street, they are probably bullies in the station house. And in their homes. Too many precinct captains are more politician than cop. Politicians worried more about optics than policing, with not one but both eyes on their next promotion and indulging the bullies in their midst who maintain some kind of wild west law and order on the streets and in the precinct house.

So much talk about ending “systemic racism”. Most of the talk comes from people like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo etal. Guess what folks, they are the system. Root them out too. And the new breed of politician, the AOCs and the like. They should study history if they really care, and not doom us to repeat it. Remember New York City in the 70s. I do and it wasn’t pretty. Not pretty for the average citizen much less pretty for the disadvantaged these lying politicians pretend to represent. 

Systemic racism exists but to a much lesser degree than the activists and bad actors want us to believe. It is systemic stupidity, coddling law breakers, protecting bad cops, pandering politicians that will ultimately do us in.