CAPS is dead. Scarecrow policing is a failure. Actually incarcerating criminals has fallen out of favor with the current crop of morons in the courts. Time for the "opt out" plan. It works like this:
- The "community" dislikes the police. Snowflakes are ambivalent - they know they need the police but they aren't quite sure why. Normals like the police.
So every ward should have a binding referendum. "Do the residents of the (??) Ward want the police to maintain a presence in the neighborhood? A simple Yes/No answer is all that is needed. The results are tallied and the results are law for a four year period. The Normals vote for police service. The snowflakes probably vote against it. The "community," too.
The Districts/Wards that want manpower probably get heaps of it, something they haven't seen in a decade. The savings in facility costs alone would pay retiree health care for years. The snowflake part of town becomes the Happy Hunting Grounds of the criminals. And the anti-police parts of town.....well, they get what they asked for, and they get it good and hard. Dissenters can be placed on a "Response Call List" if they so desire and police will respond to their registered phone number, but no proactive police-work will be undertaken in the Wards that voted for no police. Eventually, the wanna-be-Normals will move to better policed areas or leave town.
In four years, the remaining snowflakes will realize the error of their ways and vote to return cops to the neighborhood. Anti-police areas are suddenly full of vacant lots and dilapidated housing stock that has to be bulldozed and plenty of room for real economical development. Eventually, the area becomes Normals.
Certain volunteer fire departments do something similar where if you aren't a "subscriber" to the local Fire Protection area, you don't get service when your building catches fire. You see the articles here and there that a fire department didn't save someone's building - they just stood by in case it spread to one of their subscribers. We think it might be time to try something similar in policing. We'll call it the Darwin Method.
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