Advice for Cops
As most of you know, I've been an ideological Anarchist all my adult life. I've also done my share of marching in the streets -- for peace, civil rights, and labor causes -- and had a thwacking acquaintance with many cops thereby. I also lived for 12 years in Chicago, about which no more need be said. As a natural result, I have no reason to love the police.
On the other hand, I'm also a realist. I know as well as you that, at least until we can create an efficient militia system to replace them, we need local police to protect the citizens from crime -- usually by catching the criminals after the fact and locking them up where they can't get at their victims. We've also seen, over the past few months, what happens when the police are pulled back or constrained -- by various politicians -- from doing that job. I won't go into the complex politics of why the police are being thus constrained, even threatened with "defunding" or actual "disbandment", but in all fairness I'll make some suggestions as to how the police themselves can improve this situation. I've mentioned some of these before, but they're worth elaborating now.
How to deal with the "defund/disband" campaign:
Go on strike.
Seriously. Announce the strike at least a week in advance, very publicly, and give the public warning. Also tell the public how to defend themselves while you're out on strike. Give them instructions on how to get together and hire private security-guards, and especially give them training on how to organize, arm and train a proper citizen Militia. With luck, they'll know how to maintain such a Militia even after your strike is over. Meanwhile, while out on strike, moonlight as private security guards.
Insist that you won't return to work until the people -- not the local government -- bring up a petition asking you to return. Then insist on your demands. These should include no more talk about "defunding"; instead, increase the police department's budget and spend every penny of the increase on purchasing -- and intense training with:
1) Stun-weapons -- stun-guns, stun-batons, stun-shields, wired and wireless tasers.
2) Also improved high-volume smoke-grenades rather than tear-gas. A cloud of smoke is much less likely to cause fires or blow back on and incapacitate your own troops. It can, however, keep rioters from seeing where to throw firebombs and bricks. Police armed with stun-shields and stun-batons can safely charge into the crowd and "hunt by Braille" until the rioters are all down and snoring.
3) Likewise MAVs -- miniature solar-powered spy-drones, easily disguised as large insects (I'd recommend the North American Silk-Moth) or small birds (I'd recommend Hummingbirds) -- which can deploy above the crowd, pick out which marchers are carrying bricks, acid-bottles and firebombs in their pockets and backpacks, and get pictures of them. MAVs can also fly high above the crowd to see which way it's going, and which way spin-offs from the crowd are going, and report back to a centralized computer in a mobile command-center.
4) Improved police armor, including polarized clear face-shields to prevent blinding by laser-beam, improved breathing filters, and more extensive body-cameras.
Also demand immunity from Critical Race Theory "Sensitivity" Training, which creates racism rather than curing it.
Once granted your demands and back at work, use some of the increased funds to hire more Black cops -- also Latins, Asians and Native Americans if they'll take the job, but definitely enough non-Whites ("People Of Color") so that every cop on the street is paired with at least one non-White. This won't prevent accusations of Police Brutality, but at least it will guarantee that the accusers can't fall back on "racism" as an excuse for getting reduced charges, political clout and money.
Be serious about creating, organizing and maintaining those civilian Militias; you'll need their help against the crooks and politicians.
Don't bother talking to the media; they'll never believe you anyway, and they're likely to twist whatever you say into supporting their own political agenda. Also pass that word on to your Militias -- and listen to what they have to tell you in return. Make a habit of recording and filing whatever citizens say to you; you never know when it will come in handy, as in the case of the Boston Marathon bombers.
These tactics will, at best, create the efficient Militia system that we need. At worst, it will damn-well improve police/citizen relations. Remember that, no matter how well propagandized by politicians, "activists", the media, academia and the entertainment biz, average people trust in what they see and hear for themselves. This has been the downfall of many a tyrant -- and crook -- before this. Take it from a practical Anarchist.
--Leslie <;)))><
