An example of cops joining the fire department....

Or as I once said, "Going Galt."

From an article I wrote in the American Thinker last year:

Cops are pulling back and yes, “women and minorities” will be "hardest hit."

...I recently read an article on the results of the “reforms” of the Chicago Police Department from the Obama “Just-Us" Department and the American Criminal Lovers Union. And the results:...

According to the report, the number of investigatory stops fell from more than 1.3 million in 2014 and 2015 to just over 54,000 in the first six months of 2016…”

Lets look at those numbers. Assume 650,000 investigatory stops per year, you've now dropped to around 110,000 per year now. One fifth of the previous numbers. What are the results?:

Chicago murders per year:

2013: 422

2014: 428

2015: 495

2016: 747

2017: 134 (As of March 28, 2017)

You read that right, murder increased 50% in one year...

Now we have Baltimore and their "reforms," inflicted upon them by the B Hussein Obama regime and his "Just-Us" department:

Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death. A wave of killings followed.

BALTIMORE – Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation’s deadliest big city, a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime.

Police officers reported seeing fewer drug dealers on street corners. They encountered fewer people who had open arrest warrants.

Police questioned fewer people on the street. They stopped fewer cars.

In the space of just a few days in spring 2015 – as Baltimore faced a wave of rioting after Freddie Gray, a black man, died from injuries he suffered in the back of a police van – officers in nearly every part of the city appeared to turn a blind eye to everyday violations. They still answered calls for help. But the number of potential violations they reported seeing themselves dropped by nearly half. It has largely stayed that way ever since.

“What officers are doing is they’re just driving looking forward. They’ve got horse blinders on,” says Kevin Forrester, a retired Baltimore detective.

The surge of shootings and killings that followed has left Baltimore easily the deadliest large city in the United States. Its murder rate reached an all-time high last year; 342 people were killed. The number of shootings in some neighborhoods has more than tripled. One man was shot to death steps from a police station. Another was killed driving in a funeral procession.

What's happening in Baltimore offers a view of the possible costs of a remarkable national reckoning over how police officers have treated minorities...

As an old friend of mine says, "DA!"

Go out there, look at the area, see the problems and take action...and get complained on, investigated, terminated, prosecuted...now go out there and do a good job! A few good looks at the results of the Obama regime's war on cops:

...So has the U.S. Justice Department. During the Obama administration, the department launched wide-ranging civil rights investigations of troubled police forces, then took them to court to compel reforms. Under President Donald Trump, Washington has largely given up that effort. "If you want crime to go up, let the ACLU run the police department," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at a gathering of police officials in May...

Whether that scrutiny would cause policing to suffer – or crime to rise – has largely remained an open question.

Well put Mr. Attorney General, very well put. Who would have thought the American Criminal Lovers Union would be hostile to cops. Some details on Baltimore:

Millions of police records show officers in Baltimore respond to calls as quickly as ever. But they now begin far fewer encounters themselves. From 2014 to 2017, dispatch records show the number of suspected narcotics offenses police reported themselves dropped 30 percent; the number of people they reported seeing with outstanding warrants dropped by half. The number of field interviews – instances in which the police approach someone for questioning – dropped 70 percent.

I remember back in 2000 (?) one morning my agency called in all lieutenants and above for an emergency meeting. That afternoon we were told at roll call, "You will start collecting demographic data on all your self initiated actions, on view investigations, traffic stops...you must document all of the racial and sex data of these on this forms and the department will start analyzing the data. If your percentages are not normal, that is if you pull over 100 whites and give 50 of them tickets, then of every 100 blacks you should give around 50 of them tickets...if not, you can be investigated, suspended, terminated or prosecuted...."

We could tell the lieutenant was uncomfortable with this, as he knew it was putting us at an unknown risk. We didnt' know what would happen with this order, so we did what any logical person would do. We did nothing! People in roll call would take that "self initiated" form and put a big "0" on top of it. In certain areas, tickets dropped 60% in a few days.

And in a few days, the department put out "additional guidance," basically a message saying we're not going to screw you for doing your job.

I've said this countless times, effective law enforcement, no matter if you used "Community Policing," "Intelligence Based Policing," or the "Broken Window Theory," must be assertive. Cops must go out, know their areas, know the problem people and concentrate their efforts on the relatively few criminals that commit the most crime. The war on cops is currently at a cease fire with the Trump administration. But cops are not trusting, and we saw how close it came to having Mrs. Bill Clinton, who had "Mothers of the Movement" at their convention in 2016, blaming black deaths on cops. We were assured the war on cops would continue in a third Obama term, which she promised. So it will take a while to recover from the damage.

The article shows more details on the disaster that Baltimore has turned out to become. The future is undetermined, but certain things are pretty certain. The population of Baltimore will continue to elect anti-law enforcement race baiting poverty pimps, and the BPD will have more trouble recruiting candidates. Sorry big city Democrats, you made your bed, now lay in it.