As IF Times

link:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15036239/morning-joe-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-crime-police.html

Anyone paying even the slightest attention to the news is aware of the rampant crime that’s evident in so many large major cities. Though we observe wanton criminal activity in Europe, the most brazen criminal activity occurs in the large cities of the United States.

For the majority of normal people, this is not a good thing. Despite the political bleats of such as Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson, most would prefer a safe city where the average number of shootings on a weekend is not close to an average school classroom.  How can this be allowed to happen on a regular basis?

On a frequent enough level to be newsworthy, a ‘mass’ shooting of some kind takes place in the US and the usual tired narratives of gun restrictions surfaces once again. Conveniently ignored is the fact that a large percentage of these shootings are carried out by mentally disturbed people who are coincidently gender confused. It’s as if they blamed shootings on the guns rather than the obvious fact that all the shooters happened to wear a bear costume.  Like blaming the fork instead of the fat guy.

It’s logical that the ‘population’ will demand that the government in charge do something to keep people safe.  In the UK, there have been rumors of food stores soon requiring digital ID to shop in order to protect from criminals who would enter there to rob or create havoc.  You read that right; people will require digital identification to buy food at the stores.  This is their government’s idea of helping the people.  What could go wrong there?

For some reason, this modus operandi reminds me of a very successful business model that has been in place for centuries.  The model is the Mafia. As in, “nice restaurant you have there.  It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.  Why don’t you pay us a regular fee to keep you safe?”

If we step back and reflect upon the authorities’ attempt to restrict people during the last Covid pandemic charade, the steps taken were all about controlling the movements and activities of people. Where you could go, whom you hung out with and what you could do were all dictated by the state because, you know, to keep everyone safe.

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect the possible dots on the long range plan for the big cities.  Violence and crime are rampant: citizens will demand action: politicians will decree control measures on everyone, even on your currency. In the nation formerly known as Canada, some of the measures taken to protect the public are straight out of Monty Python.  Some may recall the advice of police regarding car thefts from people’s homes.  Just leave the keys at the front door to make it easier for the thieves.  Recently, a man was charged with aggravated assault for daring to use a knife to fight off intruders in his own home!

People can cluck about the ineffectiveness of politicians; that they don’t know what they’re doing.  But there’s the other possibility….that they know exactly what they’re doing.

link:  https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-cops-advise-car-owners-to-leave-keys-at-their-front-door-so-thieves-can-steal-without-confrontation?utm_campaign=64530

Deserved or not, populations of different countries have reputations that are generally accepted as being true. Scots are dour, the French are snooty, Americans are simple and the Germans are orderly.  Canadians have historically been renowned for an admirable trait; they’re known as being tolerant and nice.

With immigration and travel, populations lose some of their traditional characteristics and stereotypes are harder to maintain.

As existing native populations are proportionally reduced and as old traditions and values get watered down, a certain homogeneity appears across all nations.

One such universal aspect of a watered down culture is crime.  No one can claim that any society is without its share of criminal activity of course, but no one can deny the growing level of crime in all western nations.  Were this not the case, budgets for policing would be falling, whereas just the opposite is true. According to statistica.com, in American cities, 65 of the 300 largest cities in America spend 40 percent of their general budgets on policing.  I won’t go into discussion of how to parse the statistics, that’s fodder for party conversations.

What is interesting is the uniquely Canadian solution to some criminal activity recently proposed by the Toronto police department.  In response to the relentless crime wave of stolen cars, many of which were stolen by taking the keys right from people’s homes, the brave constabulary have proposed placing car keys right at the front door of the house to make it easier for the thieves. He may have also advised placing some cookies at the door, but we don’t know.  Clearly, this preserves the reputation of niceness on the part of Canadians.

To be fair, the police may have borrowed the idea from the strategy used in New York city in the eighties when cars were left unlocked with a sign on the window stating “no radio”. The idea is the same: crime is going to happen anyway; why make it difficult? While some may think there’s an elegant logic to this way of thinking, it leads us down a road to an undeniable conclusion:  Why have any police at all?  As a matter of fact, if you keep pulling on that thread of logic, why have any justice apparatus including judges and especially lawyers?  If you’re in the locksmith business, you may want to learn to code.

As we have seen in major urban cities, theft, often brazen daylight theft by gangs of ‘youts’ are commonplace, especially in the US.  Employees are instructed not to impede the thieves and thus they ransack retail stores with fearless abandon. Any day can be black Friday at the Nike store or the nearest Best Buy or CVS. Actually, it’s better than Black Friday, because you don’t even have to be inconvenienced by paying.

Responses to this have varied from enclosing display cases with plastic or mesh to just closing down retail stores altogether. Flagship stores of big retail chains have completely closed down in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago.

As in Canada, the logic behind the acceptance of a bit of petty crime here and there is so that the citizens can be ‘safe’.  The mayor of Britain’s London, Sadiq Khan, has stated that violent crime is just something to accept when living in a big city; but without explaining Tokyo or Shanghai.  We hear this word invoked a lot these days as a pretext of not doing anything or to follow policies so inane as to be idiotic.  As we’ve seen from the very recent Covid debacle, being safe meant policies that were enacted even if they harmed or even killed you.

The idea of a safe society has been severely perverted from its original intent. It’s not supposed to be safe for those who make others unsafe. This is almost the entire point of paying for a police force and a justice apparatus.  However, if nations such as Canada determine that they don’t want their citizens to inconvenience criminal behaviour, they should at least change the semantics.  Let’s just call them faux pas.  If by chance, these perps are caught in the act, the ‘police’ can take them aside, wag a finger and tsk tsk them.  Perhaps some will require a scolding.  In the most extreme cases, a strongly worded letter would be sent to their address.

This can free up a lot of manpower and resources for other more serious breaches of society’s rules;  such as posting rude comments on-line.