All it requires is resources and determination and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is "Provocative" and "Escalatory" and must be avoided.
As has been established across decades of civil disturbances, it is police passivity that emboldens mobs.
In a display of sloppy wishful thinking at the worst possible time, the city's leaders decided last week to vacate the third police precinct.
Some police reported being ordered to leave the area-and then being ordered not to return.
Back in 1970 in his classic book on domestic unrest, The Riot Makers, Eugene Methvin identified police absence or pullback as the accelerant on riots.
Looting one store, overturning one police car is never enough.
Over the weekend, Minneapolis finally got more serious about policing itself and saw a drastic diminishment of destruction.
As has been established across decades of civil disturbances, it is police passivity that emboldens mobs.
In a display of sloppy wishful thinking at the worst possible time, the city's leaders decided last week to vacate the third police precinct.
Some police reported being ordered to leave the area-and then being ordered not to return.
Back in 1970 in his classic book on domestic unrest, The Riot Makers, Eugene Methvin identified police absence or pullback as the accelerant on riots.
Looting one store, overturning one police car is never enough.
Over the weekend, Minneapolis finally got more serious about policing itself and saw a drastic diminishment of destruction.
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