{"id":55812,"date":"2020-06-09T11:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55812"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:11:59","slug":"55812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55812","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Auto Defensas Para Mi! <\/em>(I called it)<\/p>\n

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If You Want To Know What Disbanding The Police Looks Like, Look At Mexico<\/a>
\nThe rise of vigilante groups in Mexico offers a hint of what happens when institutions fail and civil society collapses. America should be paying attention.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most visible and insistent demands of the Black Lives Matter movement is the abolition or disbandment of the police\u2014or at the very least defunding them, which taken to the extreme would amount to the same thing. \u201cAbolish the police\u201d has become a rallying cry among protesters and a litmus test for elected officials seeking to ally with them.<\/p>\n

What comes after the police have been abolished remains unclear. Protesters and politicians alike are hazy on details, preferring instead to talk about \u201creimagining public safety\u201d and throwing around vague terms like \u201ccommunity policing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, in concrete terms what would happen if a city actually disbanded its police department, as the Minneapolis City Council\u00a0pledged to do over the weekend<\/a>, is that the county sheriff\u2019s office or the state police\u2014or perhaps even federal law enforcement\u2014would step into the vacuum and the city would have almost no say in how it was policed or what policies county and state law enforcement agencies adopted.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s say these ultra-progressive municipal governments could get their wish and abolish the police in their cities entirely. What would happen? Inevitably, an armed group would emerge and impose a monopoly on the use of force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want an idea of how that works, look to our southern neighbor, Mexico, where over the past decade endemically corrupt police departments in some areas have been supplanted by\u00a0autodefensas<\/em>, or local self-defense militias. But before you get too excited about the prospect of paramilitary\u00a0autodefensas<\/em> policing American cities, understand that in Mexico these groups are a mixed bag at best\u2014and at worst they\u2019re not much better than the corrupt local police and cartel gunmen they replaced. More importantly, their mere presence in Mexico was and is a disturbing sign of societal decay…………….<\/p>\n

Aside from Minneapolis\u2014where on Saturday the mayor, Jacob Frey, was\u00a0booed and heckled out of a rally<\/a>\u00a0after saying he didn\u2019t support \u201cthe full abolition\u201d of the police\u2014cities like Los Angeles, Portland, and Toronto are taking steps to reduce funding for law enforcement, in some cases redirecting tens of millions of dollars to various community programs while slashing police budgets.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, \u201cdefund the police\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201creform the police.\u201d It means take the money away, which means fewer police on the street\u2014and in the case of Minneapolis, apparently no municipal police on the street.<\/p>\n

That local elected officials would even consider such policies is deeply troubling. America might not be a failing state overrun with drug cartels and corrupt politicians, but it is sliding in the direction of Mexico. We have declining levels of confidence in our institutions and declining levels of trust across society in general. The fabric of our civic life is fraying badly, and calls to abolish the police are a sign of that.<\/p>\n

Despite the insistence of the protesters, getting rid of law enforcement won\u2019t usher in a more just or equitable order. But it will invite new arrangements for security, as it did in Mexico. These arrangements, however well-intentioned, will fall prey to the same corruption and unaccountability as the forces they replace, especially if the underlying causes of societal decay are left to fester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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