Folks, did you see this?
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has implemented a new response policy. Beginning March 11, officers will only respond to calls of in-progress emergencies, WPXI reported.
https://www.police1.com/911/pittsburgh-police-will-only-respond-to-calls-of-in-progress-emergencies-as-part-of-new-staffing-plan
The policy is part of Chief Larry Scirotto’s efforts to reduce the bureau’s call volume from about 200,000 calls to about 50,000 calls this year, according to the report. Calls for criminal mischief, theft, harassment and many others will be handled by the telephone reporting unit or by online reporting.
If you are a victim of theft, burglary or a slew of other crimes, you won’t get police officers to come out and help you. Instead, you’ll get a link to a website to “report” the crime. After which obviously nothing will happen, encouraging more criminals to act with a justified expectation of impunity.
Another innovation in Pittsburgh is that police precincts will be left unmanned and closed at night:
The bureau … will remove desk officers from precincts between the hours of 3 a.m.-7 a.m., and reduce the number of officers on overnight shifts.
Remember how I’ve been telling you for yeears that police is one of the main forms of welfare in a nation-state? Once the nation-state withers away, there’s no more reason for governments to provide this or other forms of welfare.
A scared populace that’s besieged by criminals and is afraid for its safety on a daily basis is easy to despoil. Once the nation-state is gone, there’s no need for a middle class. One of the ways of pauperizing the middle class is forcing it to bear the financial burden of providing itself with basic safety.
The reason why we hear so much about the threat of authoritarianism is precisely because the actual danger is the exact opposite. It’s anarchy in the streets and oblivious citizens who are concentrated on policing their own thoughts while losing the actual and precious guarantee of crime policing.
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another way this works – scared ordinary people buy guns to protect themselves and get in trouble for having or using them.
Amanda
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Exactly. And then they get impoverished by court costs, losing their jobs, etc.
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” police is one of the main forms of welfare in a nation-state?” Once the nation-state withers away, there’s no more reason for governments to provide this “
And unlike education they can just withdraw from providing police protection and ignore the consequences. Getting out of education took decades of subversion and nudging people to leave of their own accord.
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And the most insane part is that people demanded this of their own free will in the largest protests we’ve seen in year. They demonstrated for months to have their welfare protections taken away!
And there were simpletons who were telling me here on the blog that “defund the police” didn’t really mean defund the police. How can people be this exceptionally stupid, God!
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“Remember how I’ve been telling you for yeears that police is one of the main forms of welfare in a nation-state?”
Yes, and it’s the same way with a military that is incapable of designing and fielding inexpensive weapons instead of hugely pricey “weapons systems” as a Jobs For The Boys programme.
“Once the nation-state withers away, there’s no more reason for governments to provide this or other forms of welfare.”
Which is actually awesome because the private militaries that will fill their place won’t be distracted by gleaming Wunderwaffen such as The Patriot Weapons System, The Leopard (without its Bundestripes), and so forth.
“One of the ways of pauperizing the middle class is forcing it to bear the financial burden of providing itself with basic safety.”
Which starts with an absurd tax code meant to redistribute the wealth that could be used by people to protect themselves, and so Taxation Is (And Always Is) Theft.
“It’s anarchy in the streets …”
It’s a state of deeper lawlessness created by punishing people for confronting the lawlessness on the streets.
A thorough application of “natural law” under anarchy as well as Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up, aka The Three S Plan, would do a lot to remedy that.
But the people who are going on about the threat of authoritarianism aren’t really going on about that, they’re actually reacting to the deeper lawlessness created by people in positions of authority protecting the violent shock corps.
So the police will be off the streets in Pittsburgh?
Splendid!
That leaves plenty of time for the pauperised middle class and those otherwise punished by those “authorities” to leave plenty of bodies belonging to the violent shock corps!
This is incredibly wonderful news!
Just as long as they clean up after themselves, I’m sure nobody will be around to complain. 🙂
But why is any of this a surprise that the US has abandoned its “social contracts” with its people?
It started a long time ago with abandoning the idea of the US as being “for ourselves and our posterity”, and it proceeded inevitably from there.
That’s why this bit of bluster about how the US wasn’t honouring its agreements with Ukraine was more than just a little bit of cheek and bullshit: the US doesn’t honour its agreements with its own people, so why would anyone else expect anything to play out differently?
So no, you weren’t defrauded, you were deceived, and you were fools for going along with it and going along with your political representatives, a huge difference.
As far as the precious US cities go and their ongoing demands for reparations from anyone and everyone they can lay into with the threat of violent shock corps, why is it that we keep building these things anyway?
Not one major city in history has survived over the long term without having to reinvent itself, and even those cities (such as London and Paris) are less of a model of success than a model of engineering fixes on top of a never-ending collapse.
It’s an architectural planning typology few ever criticise.
Why can’t we just let the violent shock corps do us a favour and let the cities burn?
Maybe there are some good answers out there, but a few “doughnut hole” cities burned out might serve as a wonderful lesson in the mode of Voltaire: from time to time, it’s necessary and ideal to kill an admiral.
I was thinking Chicago would be first, but why not Pittsburgh?
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Didn’t Detroit become a donut hole city? I think or hear that it has been or is being revitalized. I wonder how much truth there is to that.
Amanda
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RE Pittsburgh, I listened to Matt Walsh talk about the finances of the city.
In the wake of Saint Floyd, they put a moratorium on new Police Academy classes -> not enough officers (about 20% short staffed).
Meanwhile they spent millions on a Climate Resiliency Office, LGBTQ Office, DEI Office and the attendant staff and consultants.
They need a Javier Millei type to come in and “afuera” all those offices and redirect the funds to the Police Dept. I’m surprised the whole force hasn’t quit.
Amanda
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“The policy is part of Chief Larry Scirotto’s efforts to reduce the bureau’s call volume from about 200,000 calls to about 50,000 calls this year, according to the report.”
This is crazy lol. “Call volume” is a proxy for crime. If you want to reduce call volume, reduce crime. But they literally mean call volume, a nonsensical metric. Helpful tip: you can reduce it to 0 if you just don’t pick up the phone!
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Let’s close our eyes, and baddies won’t see us because it’s dark. It works for toddlers, so it must be a good strategy.
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… so how long before decoy key fobs full of Semtex?
Naturally they’d come with an area denial transmitter keeping people from accidentally blowing themselves up.
Another fine Black Market Social Solution(TM)!
Who said anarchy couldn’t be fun? :-)
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In SA, there are lots of would be Mugabes and Putins. The main thing preventing them from establishing authoritarian rule is the lack of an army or police force capable of enforcing it.
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2024/03/17/why-would-the-anc-allow-itself-to-be-kicked-out-in-may/
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