Louisville PD Needs to Pull an Atlanta

Let me begin by stipulating that the Louisville Police Department has a lot of internal problems.  Let me further stipulate that the Breonna Taylor shooting is a bad shoot and that Det. Hankinson deserves some sort of criminal sanction, although nothing that will satisfy the BLM mob.  

That said, the rank and file officers deserve better than this:

LMPD officers were ordered to remove riot gear

One of the things that is overlooked by many critics of policing in America is how awful the leadership is at police departments that have a lot of problems.  And the leadership at LMPD is simply terrible.  Poor leadership leads to poor morale which leads to poor performance by the subordinate officers.  

Asking officers, particularly officers who have faced mob violence for weeks the way that the officers have in Louisville, to clear a protest area where a murder just happened without their tactical gear is simply insane.  

The rank and file police officers have tried the accepted methods of protest.  They held a "no- confidence" vote against their previous chief.  Dozens of them walked out early in the current troubles when the mayor came by to make a speech to officers who were getting ready to deploy to face the mobs.  

It's time for them to do the unacceptable.  Every officer who is eligible to retire should do it.  Tomorrow.  And then the rest of them should not come in for a couple of days the way Atlanta PD did.   

What is your "woke" red line?

Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher asked his readers, particularly the progressive ones,  what act of woke aggression would be their breaking point.  His focus on the post was that the BLM/ ANTIFA/ Progressive mobs have moved from Confederate statues to statues of white people generally.  As he put it in the final lines of his original post:

Don’t play innocent. The unwillingness of decent liberals to draw a line in the sand and defend it is why these statucidal Stalinists get away with it.

 Read the whole thing.

The bigger question, which Mr. Dreher didn't seem quite ready to consider is: The "breaking point" to do what, exactly? Write a blog post complaining about it? A letter to the editor of your local paper, doing the same?

Are you willing to join a counter protest? Are you willing to line up as part of a human chain to protect one of these monuments? Post "All Lives Matter" on your Facebook page?

Are you stockpiling canned goods and ammunition for if (when) the violence really starts? Making contacts among your neighbors to determine who will stand with you to physically fight the mobs and who will cower?

Are you just waiting to get to November so you can secretly cast a vote for Trump and hope that's enough?

I'm past my breaking point. Have been for a long time, which is why I used to call for working out a peaceful separation. We're past being able to peacefully separate now. We're either going to quietly accept the cultural Marxist ascendancy with all the horrors that will historically follow it or a lot of blood is going to be spilled to create the physical territories necessary for separation.

I think our society is on a knife edge. There are just enough people in society who still want to believe that "the rules" are still in effect. They believe that even if they are aggrieved in some way, that there's an appeals process and a "fair" way to fix the situation. More importantly, they believe that if they engage in truly anti- social or extra- legal behavior, that they will be punished.  It keeps just enough of us in line that the blood hasn't really started spilling yet. 

Every time a statue comes down at the hands of a mob or an autonomous zone goes up and the laws and order go unenforced, a few more people come to believe that the social compact is dead.
Either the law and social order apply to all or they apply to no one. You do not want a plurality of whites coming to believe that the rules don't apply any more. I think we're getting close to that typing point and a lot of people who have been patient and peaceful up until now are just waiting for somebody else to go first. 

That's when the Great White Riot kicks off again. It has been noted elsewhere, but bears repeating: White people basically have two settings: "Follow the rule of law within an agreed upon framework for social harmony," or "Kill Fucking Everybody."

Maybe it won't happen. Maybe enough Soma has been administered to enough of the populace to keep them submissive as long as the Netflix streams hold out.

But if it does, if somebody actually decides to go first... 

You might want to avoid Lansing for a few days...

H/T: Ace of Spades HQ

Things are getting worse out there.

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Site Reboot: Welcome to My Old Kentucky Crime Scene 2.0

Let's try this again.

Good evening and welcome again to My Old Kentucky Crime Scene.  I started this blog way back in 2017 and, after half a dozen posts or so, I let it die.  My last post to this thing was in March of 2018. 

Not that it mattered, of course.  I'm not sure that anyone has ever read this blog.  I decided to leave my old posts up just for the hell of it.  If this thing ever takes off I'll be curious to see what kinds of comments those old posts generate. 

A lot has changed for me and a lot has changed in the world since just over two years ago.  The main thing is that I retired from the Lexington, KY police department.  I had done nothing to promote this blog back then, mostly out of fear for my position if my real life identity became well known.  Now that I've started collecting my pension I have "Fuck You" money.  Not a lot, but enough guaranteed income that I won't starve if the mob comes for me as a result of anything I might post here.

With retirement has come a fair amount of freedom that I didn't feel like I had before.  It's nice to have my 1st Amendment rights back, something that police officers as a practical matter have to curtail during the course of their careers.  And, folks, have I got a lot of pent up things to say...

Where to begin?  Well, with the Black Lies Lives Matter movement most likely.  The current troubles, brought about by the death of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, are subsiding for now.  They could flare up again and they will, no doubt about it.

One thing that I didn't do before is try to promote this blog publicly.  I'm still thinking about the best way to do that but hopefully it won't be years between posts.  I don't intend for it to just be a "Cop" blog.  I want to opine about other things as well.  But with a name like My Old Kentucky Crime Scene, there's going to be a lot of cops and robbers stuff. 

We'll all just have to see where this goes.