Pittsburgh is Pennsylvania’s second-largest city. Naturally, being a large, northwestern city, it’s under Democrat control. And also naturally, it responded to George Floyd’s drug death by doing everything it could to hamstring policing. Inevitably, that meant that the police force began to suffer from a staffing crisis. Now, that staffing crisis means that at night unless people are experiencing a real-time, life-threatening emergency, no police will show up. In Pittsburgh, the “broken windows” theory of law enforcement is irrelevant; instead, the windows are breaking.
For those young ’uns who don’t remember the 1970s, that was the first decade that felt the full effects of the leftist contention that policing was inherently racist and classist. With police prevented from doing their jobs, cities fell into decay. This was the heyday of subway train tagging in New York and the irritating windshield guys who’d dirty your window and then extort you through […]
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