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Across the country, police departments are struggling with ballooning response times, with jurisdictions reporting that they have doubled the time it takes to react to 911 calls. What we are seeing is a rapidly developing erosion of the “thin blue line.”

This breakdown should give pause to every law enforcement officer, who now must wonder if their “brothers in blue” will be there. In the dispatch logs, federal agents reported they were boxed in by 10 vehicles, under attack and requested urgent backup. In response, the Chicago Police Chief of Patrol can be heard on dispatch recordings ordered: “No units will respond.”

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This crisis is not limited to Chicago. In New York City, tensions are escalating over the impending mayoral election. Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who has in the past called for the defunding of the NYPD, has triggered threats from officers who say they may quit en masse if he is elected.

Chicago Police, ICE and the fraying of the thin blue line  

From the article:

The collapse of law enforcement capacity is not inevitable, but neither is its recovery. It will require a reknitting of trust between police and citizens, layered resilience, and a shared awareness that safety is a public good, not a spectator sport. 

This was precisely what the ‘defund the police’ movement was meant to do - rebuild trust in law enforcement by taking a portion of their funding and invest it in social work. When cops are called out to arrest the homeless or some college student with two joints in her backpack, it creates a picture of cops as the enemy.

Republicans were tremendously successful at spinning ‘defund the police’ as ‘get rid of police departments.’ Democrats were shit at not countering that spin.

Boru