Dakota Beacon

Yesterday it was Warner Brothers swiping Elmer Fudd’s gun and replacing it with a scythe?!  Not only is this pointless but really stupid.  Doesn’t WB know that knife attacks are now the leading method of murder in places like the UK, where guns are illegal?  (As a matter of fact, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan outlawed knives after a number of knife murders on public streets and bridges.)  But now things are reaching extremes.  Now there are calls to cancel Paw Patrol.  Where will this end?  Not until we are all in little prisons of our own making.  It is that important to these “social justice warriors” to instill in the youngest of our children of all races that we cannot have any good images of police? The Paw Patrol is a sort of weird little fantasy force of pups that get together to prevent or stop crimes and other wrongdoing.  We sure can’t have that.  What we need to teach them is . . . what, exactly?  That cops are bad and the “enemy”?  That should help attract the best people to the profession of peace-keeping, right?  Just demonize all law enforcement personnel.  There is something seriously wrong with our society.  Maybe it is just too many people with not enough of their own problems to solve and too much free time to “think”.  It is not improving the quality of the thinking, I venture.

The big push now is not for anyone’s rights anymore.  Now it is all about “defunding” - which is to say eliminating - the police.  Seattle’s city council was commandeered by BLM activists.  David Horowitz had an interesting article which I’ll link here in case you’d like to know more about Black Lives Matter history and he also provides some enlightening statistics, in case you are interested in those facts.  In Minneapolis the city council is moving ahead, under the leadership of Jeremiah Ellison (the son of Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s AG) and fatuous council president Lisa Bender, with fully disbanding the police.  For the record, last I heard Mayor Jacob Frey isn’t on board (yet).  But the steamroller is speeding up and bearing down on law enforcement in Minneapolis as well as other cities - Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, to name a few.  

When Lisa Bender was asked by a CNN host what she should do, then, if someone was breaking into her house.  Bender retorted that this question came from a place of “white privilege”.  I guess she thinks black people have no problem with criminals breaking into their homes.  I would think that her attitude “comes from a place of white privilege”.  I have been told by a resident of the cities area that they are just going to “defund” the police.  They are looking at an alternative form of keeping the peace in Minneapolis - modeled on an experiment that is being tried in Camden, NJ.  Now, Camden is one of our most dangerous cities and has been for some time - unemployment as of April of 2020 (and, granted, we must consider the impact of the ill-advised and extensive government-mandated shutdown of nearly all business everywhere) is 94.7%.  You read that right - ninety-four point seven percent.  So things are badly out of whack in Camden to say the least.  They have had a dysfunctional city for a long time.  In 2014, the city hit the reset button.  They disbanded their police force and went to using a county-based system.  Something like turning it over to the sheriff’s department.  All of the police had to re-apply and most of them were rehired.  This is said to be working better than it was before.  It is said that there is more of a friendly police presence on the streets, at least as of last report, which, again, may not be current, given a 94.7% unemployment rate having a lot more people with time on their hands.  The normal rate is in the neighborhood of 25% to 28%, which is bad enough.  And, to be honest, following these riots there will be a lot more unemployment unless you count the temporary cleanup crew.  And to be fair, Camden did not have any riots.  You might see why if you keep reading.

Here are some comparisons.  Minneapolis proper has a population of 425,000 and St. Paul, its twin, has 307,695.  The rest of the surrounding contiguous communities total some 3,515,902.  Camden’s population is 76,000.  Not even 100,000.  To be sure, they are right near Philadelphia, but Philadelphia really isn’t their jurisdiction or even in New Jersey.  

Crime remains high in Camden.  Property crime is at 16.22 per 1000.   Personal violence is at 50.29 per 1000.  Minneapolis has more property crime at 41.40 per 1000 and personal violence is at 8.15 per 10000, considerably less.  St. Paul stands at 35.01 per 1000 for property crime and 6.62 per 1000 for personal violence.   Murders:  Minneapolis, 48 in 2019, St. Paul, 30 in 2019 and Camden 34 in 2019.  Note the murders are straight numbers, not per 1000.  The overall crime rate is 49.55 per 1000 in Minneapolis, 41.63 per 1000 in St. Paul and 47 per 1000 in Camden.  

Now, to the property values.  Minneapolis:  $269,500.  Camden:  $82,300.  Median income echoes this.  Minneapolis:  $63,590 and it has been rising.  Camden: $26,105 and it has been declining.  Homeownership - Minneapolis, 47.7%, Camden, 39.29%.  The average number of cars per household - Minneapolis, 2; Camden, 1.   There would be no “safe” suburb, because if you have a police-free zone criminals will move freely from their crime scene in, say, Richfield and just drive on into police-free Minneapolis.  You can imagine what will be left of Minneapolis.  

Let’s return to the population figures.  Minneapolis is 59.3% white, 9.62% Hispanic, 19.3% black.  Camden - 48% Hispanic, 41’% black, 5.92% white.  Both cities, of course, have other minority populations.  It would appear that it would be pointless in Camden to riot against whites because there are virtually none, statistically speaking.  That doesn’t mean it can’t happen, of course.  From the above figures, added to the fact that there are other differences such as geography, it would seem that there is no reason why Minneapolis should expect to handle law enforcement the same way that Camden does.  It would be a lot like Los Angeles looking for a model system to Fargo-Moorhead or Bismarck and Mandan to emulate.  It makes no sense.  

I would venture to say that it is not secretly intended to make any real sense.  The disbanding or “defunding” of our law enforcement departments and leaving citizens to fend for themselves (perhaps successfully disarmed as well) is part of a bigger plan to destabilize the nation through our major cities and bring about an “alternate” form of “peace-keeping”.  Something more along the lines of Soviet Russia.  

Elections have consequences.  Usually the ones we think are most inconsequential, the ones we don’t bother to go out and vote in, the ones in which we don’t even know who’s running, they are the most important ones.  The county sheriff is the ONE elected law enforcement officer in your county.  Did you vote on that?  Did you know anything at all about the person for whom you voted, if you did?  The school board elections is where YOU decide what your children are being taught.  Have you noticed how our college students are all for replacing “capitalism” and freedom with collectivism - communism and socialism?  Wonder where they got that?  Your local schools.  Who runs them?  Who hires the people who administer and set policy in your local schools, who hires the teachers, who determines what is taught?  Do you know who you voted for in your last school board election, that is, if you did vote in that?  What about the mayor?  The mayor, as it happens, is the guy who has the power to hire the police and put them in your neighborhood - or, in the alternative, to order them to stand down and turn over their headquarters to be burned to the ground.  The city council members are the ones who are now voting and resolving to disband those police.  It turns out that all of our elections are important.  You might find that this is all a day late and a dollar short.  If you live in one of these war-torn cities, when the smoke clears you will find that your economy has gone with it.

Until the next time you have a chance to vote, and I suggest you do that in person, maybe you should put some effort into petitioning and holding your own protest against disbanding your local police.  Nothing good will come of this latest wrinkle.  And remember, this isn’t organic.  It is part of a long-range plan that is beginning to finally bear some very bitter fruit, fulfilling some of the most evil purposes.  It’s part and parcel of all of the crumbled statues, burned out buildings, looted business and broken heads.  Some revolutions are announced and met with clashing armies.  This, too, is a revolution.  It is assaulting our culture, our economy and destroying lives.  What shall we meet it with?  Something to think about.  

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