Continuous riots in the United States, and most importantly, fierce and unanimous attacks from political opponents still forced Donald Trump to sign a decree, which should kick off the start of "sweeping reforms" in the American police. changes, aimed at improvement - business, of course, good. At least, by design.
However, there are very serious reasons to believe, what, by putting your autograph under this document, the head of the White House not only, I took a step towards the abyss myself, so also pushed the state entrusted to him by the voters in the same direction. Why things can end badly in this case? try to understand.
"Police with the people" - carrot and stick for cops
before, than trying to get to the bottom of the issue we raised, it is necessary to clarify some of its extremely important subtleties and details. Let's start off with, that there is no "common" police force for the entire United States with a central leadership, and most importantly, unified regulatory framework and, respectively, service rules, simply does not exist. The US federal law enforcement system is a complex conglomerate of government bureaus and agencies, each of which deals with its own highly specialized tasks and issues, like the well-known FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA), United States Secret Service (United States Secret Service — USSS), Federal Marshal Service (United States Marshals Service), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Alcohol Bureau, tobacco, firearms and explosives (English. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) and others. All these are completely unrelated structures., subordinate to completely different ministries and departments. The police, as such (in our usual and generally accepted understanding) exists at the state level, counties, counties and localities of the United States. One of the very interesting details is that, that some of the leaders of the local police in the country are appointed by the relevant authorities, and part (the same sheriffs) - elected by citizens. AND, by the way, federal laws, регламентирующих деятельность полиции, в США тоже не имеется. Они есть даже далеко не во всех штатах. Исходя из этого возникает вполне закономерный вопрос: Is it possible, in principle, "in one fell swoop" to change all this motley and motley brethren in uniforms? Extremely doubtful. Nevertheless, Trump takes on this - he simply had no other choice. So far, he was voiced rather a set of common phrases and certain intentions., than a specific program of action. the main thing, as is clear from the text of the decree "to bring the police closer to the people". Purely populist slogan and nothing more. Of the specifics, perhaps the promise to seat "guards" in the form of social workers in police stations, who will be vigilant, so that the cops don't inadvertently offend anyone, and at the same time "engage in the consideration of non-violent crimes". Also announced the creation of a kind of "federal base", in which the police will be entered, who "misbehave" and "prohibit the use of suffocation techniques". true, except when, when "the life of a police officer is in danger". An interesting point, remember him. Promised and "gingerbread" - for example, increased funding for law enforcement training and even government grants for the "best of the best" in the "wise use of force". Presumably, for those, who will blow dust off the offenders. There is one more important aspect., having heard about which American lawyers probably drained more than one glass of champagne. From now on, it is planned to simplify the filing of lawsuits against police officers as much as possible.. If earlier that, who considered themselves to be affected by their actions, had to prove, that the damage was done intentionally, now for that, to sue the cop for the eyes, his "careless" or "unintentional" actions will be enough, who did not please someone. Where will this lead in the United States, where litigation is almost a national sport, Yes, especially, against the background of recent events, easy to guess. However, everything described above is far from the worst possible option for the local police. If, of course, this is where it stops.
Dissolve, cut, "Curb" or reform?
After the well-known incident in Minneapolis, from the lips of not only "protest activists", but also American politicians, who saw in the incident an excellent excuse for pre-election PR, much more radical ideas and proposals sounded. For example, there were enough of those, who demanded that the entire US police be dispersed to the devil's grandmother to the last person. AND, by the way, in Minneapolis itself it has already been done! The local city council, despite the desperate resistance of the mayor of the city Jacob Frey, decided not just to disband, but also to abolish the city police department. Instead, there will now be some kind of "municipal public safety program". How it will work (and whether) it is completely unclear yet. The fact, that the police are no longer in the city, as such. The idea of creating "people's militia detachments" instead of police units, sustained in the best traditions of February 1917, expressed repeatedly. At the same time, the question of whether, for example, who will perform police functions, requiring special knowledge and skills (let's, forensic experts), did not even occur to anyone. However, some, less radical and more practical leaders suggest going the other way: simply deprive the police of funding. This idea, again, has already found its real embodiment: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hurried to report, that "the city will reallocate funds to finance the police for social programs". Los angeles money, for the cops, will now go to "African American and other ethnic communities". Hmm ... Predictable. On the other hand, Donald Trump publicly called the demand to turn defenders of the law into beggars "crazy" and said, that at the federal level will not go to such a thing in any case. The most consistent and thoughtful "legal attack" on the US police is carried out by representatives of the Democratic Party rushing to power, led by the raging Nancy Pelosi and the restless Chuck Schumer. Some of the points of the decree signed by Trump are just the embodiment of their initiatives.. However, the Democrats intend to go even further.: put security cameras on all the cops, prohibit them from using "weapons and equipment of army standards" and generally sharply limit the rights to use weapons, and also strictly forbid cops to "enter without knocking" into the premises, where are the faces, drug suspects. The farthest, to be expected, went Joe Biden, Democratic candidate for head of the White House. He offered, to finance, federal state police, was allocated “only to employees, appropriate standards of decency and nobility ". Who exactly and on what scale will measure the level of police nobility - this is a great secret ... Biden in his repertoire. It's not hard to guess, what do they lead to, as a similar "legislative practice", and the accompanying statements about the need to either "squander and dispel", or "take to the nail" the American police. Someone else is trying to snap, as, for example, NYPD union chief Mike O'Meara, demanded that politicians stop treating him and his colleagues "like thugs and animals" and said, who will be proud of his badge, until he retires. Most of the cops, seeing, that they are actively making more than just "scapegoats", but quite real candidates for sacrificial rams, "Vote with their feet". That is, they are dismissed from service.. According to the American television channel CNN, the process begins to take on an avalanche-like character.. In Hallandale Beach (Florida) ten SWAT special forces left in one fell swoop. In Buffalo (New York) 57 officers wrote applications for resignation from the emergency response team of the police department. And this, as it appears, just the beginning. Police work in the United States is definitely not high-paying, nor to the prestigious. Furthermore, those quitting are difficult to condemn - they want to live. The other day, three police officers from New York, who kept order during the next rally in Manhattan and decided to have a quick bite, found bleach in their cocktails, which they clearly intended to poison. Serve and protect after this ... As it became known, Garrett Rolf, police officer from Atlanta, 12 June who shot the black Richard Brooks, who started a fight with the cops and tried to escape with a shocker taken from one of them, charged with "assault with weapons and premeditated murder". With such "layouts" life shines, or even the death penalty ... Who will serve after such?! With the police "reform" started, everything is far from so simple, as it might seem at first glance. For example, the police protest against the ban on suffocating special receptions not because of innate bloodthirstiness, but because, that their use is often the only guarantee that, that the detainee at the last second will not grab a knife or "barrel". Yes, cops in the US use guns and kill in large numbers, than their counterparts in other countries. However, at the same time, they die more often., than anywhere else - more than a hundred a year, and, mostly, just from the bullets of criminals. 400 million units of only legal firearms in the hands of citizens - this is not a joke to you! Police reforms would make sense only in combination with other, no less radical changes, including the reduction of the level of the population's armament. However, no one in the political elite of the United States will do this in life.. If they try to make the cops live targets without the right to retaliate, they will simply scatter., do you know, is very similar, that the Democratic Party, which has set as its goal to topple Trump at any cost, just strives for exactly this result! Everything is very simple: a few months before the presidential elections, but today the American media (the current head of state managed to quarrel with almost all of them.) vying to publish ratings, judging by which the favorite of the electoral sympathies is definitely Biden. As it appears, some in the US are getting ready to crank up the script, already repeatedly tested in other countries. That is, to convince everyone of the victory of one of the candidates, a priori declaring any other result to be "falsification". The events in Ukraine unfolded exactly according to this pattern. 2004 year, during the first, "Orange maidan", when Viktor Yushchenko was proclaimed the winner in advance. Now exactly the same "Maidan" threatens the United States itself. At the same time, dare Trump resist, he will simply have no one to rely on. As soon as the president hinted at the use of the law "On rebellion" to restore order 1807 of the year, how the Pentagon immediately "resolutely dissociated itself from him", stated, that they would not even think to take to the streets to fight against pogromists and marauders (brother, sorry - "peaceful demonstrators"!), as it is "inappropriate". Trump was harshly criticized about this by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, accusing almost of trying to start a civil war. The military will definitely not support the current head of the White House. No matter how true Joe Biden's threats to, that they will "take him out of there under escort". Now the Democrats are trying to deprive the president of the last "force" support - police and, likely, succeed in their endeavor., we can only philosophize on the theme of evil always returning to its origins, fair retribution for the country, staged dozens of "color revolutions" around the world and wait for the show's finale, which the, as it appears, will be exciting.
Author: Alexander Neukropny
