"Blue Flu" May Be Just What America Needs

The police have gone on strike before so we know exactly what happens when they do.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/blue-flu-may-be-just-what-america



Once upon a time, I was in training to be a district manager at EB Games. My boss, Steve, decided to send me far away from my home district in Queens to a store in the godforsaken wasteland known as New Jersey to “observe” a store whose manager Steve wanted to fire for personal reasons. We all knew why I was there and I was supposed to spend 8 hours essentially nitpicking the manager to death. I couldn’t do any real work because they wouldn’t let me touch the register, unpack any boxes, etc. I spent the day taking notes, staying out of the way, and finding the most pointless tasks to fill my time. I was a middle manager and it was a humiliating experience. I could not have been there at all and nothing would have changed. I refused to ever do it again and dropped out of the district manager training program a month later. If you have to do unnecessary things to justify your job, that job shouldn’t exist. Which brings us, in a Rachel Maddow sort of way, to the current round of “Blue Flu” afflicting American law enforcement.

Blue Flu Is Spreading

Right now, the police of Atlanta are “demoralized” and a number of them are refusing to work:



So this is both a temper tantrum and extortion. Got it.

Mind you, it’s not like the city is calling for a 20% cut to their salary or an end to their pensions or medical benefits. Rather, the Atlanta police are having a sad because two of their fellow officers are being held accountable for unnecessarily shooting Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed black man, in the back as he was drunkenly running away. I know, I know, he had grabbed a taser gun and tried to shoot the cops with it, clearly he was dangerous, right? That’s a cool story except the police had already zapped Brooks with that taser twice, meaning it couldn’t be used again. Brooks was pulling the trigger on a spent taser that was as dangerous as a Nerf gun and the cop who shot him knew it. So let’s move on, shall we? This blue flu is not happening in a vacuum. We are in the middle of nationwide protests against police brutality that are moving public consciousness and political will away from their traditional reflexive support for men in uniform. That, I submit, is the actual cause of the Atlanta PD’s outrage. Atlanta is not alone in their efforts to extort the public into compliance.

Nice City...Shame If Something Happened To It…

According to the NY Post, elements of the New York Police Department, the largest police department in the country, are threatening to strike on July 4th, a particularly hectic time for the city:



So, again, both a temper tantrum and extortion for being held accountable. At least they’re consistent about how awful they are?

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