The Pendulum

 Over at PJMedia, the Morning Briefing talks about the reckoning that large, Democrat led cities are facing after the 2020 summer-of-mostly-peaceful-violence.  In the analysis, Kruiser talks about the Minneapolis PD, which is struggling to retain officers and is currently  He links to a piece by Athena Thorne.

Unless you were in a coma, you heard about the fine, upstanding Minneapolis citizen, George Floyd, who ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl and passed away after fighting with cops and being subdued with one officer’s knee on his neck. Fiery riots and lengthy jail sentences for the officers ensued. Unsurprisingly, two years on, the Minneapolis Police Dept. is more than 100 sworn officers short of the minimum legal requirement of 731. MPD currently employs 629 officers; compare this to the 902 sworn who served there just weeks before the Floyd death.

It's not surprising that when politicians and others vilify police, the agency suffers.  The remaining officers have to work harder to cover what needs to be covered.  If, hypothetically, a city needs 200 sworn officers to cover the patrol zones and investigate crimes, and that department finds itself with 150 officers, something has to be left undone. Police chiefs in those departments are loath to cut officers from politically visible details (Like the Mayor's security detail), so he had to cut somewhere else.

It is rank hypocrisy on th Mayor's part to rail against the police and live under the very umbrella of security that the police provide.  Especially when he (or she) enjoys a personal protection detail.  Yet, that is where many cities find themselves today