Before defunding police departments became fashionable for policy wonks during and after the Summer of Love in 2020, there was one city in Michigan that previewed what was to come for any number of cities in the United States.

As we approach 2024, there are still ramifications from 2020 in any number of American cities. Dysfunctional city governments with rising crime rates and are more interested in ephemeral policies such as equity, personal pronouns, reparations, and climate change.

I get that monument building is far more attractive to mayors and city council members than filling potholes. I don’t understand why they can’t see that the ephemeral policies hurt the residents they claim they are helping and love. Class warfare has become the problem and race is used as camouflage to divide and push their Woke narratives.

Broken windows policing is pretty basic, but no longer fashionable. I did some vice work in a marked police car in an area that was having problems with prostitution. Prostitution creates drug dealing, drug use, and assaults of both clients and providers. It attracts lowlife clients into an area that is already in bad shape, and that encourages businesses to leave an area that needs them.

I would read the Incident Reports from the day shift officers. Young girls walking to and from school would be propositioned; in one case, a pregnant woman pushing a stroller was propositioned. Pimps looking for new talent would also try to do some recruiting on the paths to schools.

That neighborhood I worked in and its residents needed basic proactive police work. In the current environment, I’m not sure that the prostitution detail even exists. Some of my methods then would probably get me fired today.

The ladies of the night were adept at spotting my car, guys looking for sex were not.

If someone cruised the same block several times when a prostitute was working that block, I’d conduct a traffic stop. I would get their license and put their info in my notebook and tell them if I saw them again in the area, I would obtain their phone number and call their wife to let her know how I’d met her husband. Sometimes I could make an arrest, sometimes I couldn’t. When I could not make an arrest, there was still something I could do to get the results that I wanted, and that a poorer neighborhood needed.

Flint Town, Michigan, had 98 police officers for city of 100,000 residents in 2018. Flint Town was a warning of what was to come in 2020 and beyond.

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