Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency due to a police officer shortage.
Landry’s executive order issued Thursday lifts limits on how many new employees Louisiana sheriffs can hire and on payroll increases for their departments.
Landry, who previously had a career in law enforcement, said that police departments in the state are experiencing record-low employments “resulting in increased crime and less public safety.” As of July, sheriff’s offices statewide were down 1,800 deputies, Landry said.
Is this just political theater or is this guy planning to recruit brownshirts into the police force?
This is somehow reminiscent of how the nazis came to power, including the milktoast reporting by mainstream media. If they continue to inject their brand of fascists into the system they’ll slowly gain more and more power and win.
milquetoast
I think this is an issue across America. My law enforcement friends comment on the recruiting issues and the reduced response times.
They could also be manufacturing the crisis and then taking advantage of this. Like mobbing the good cops to leave and then to be able to say “crisis!” and recruit more fascist cops.
Ahhh I’m just kidding there are no god cops and these guys aren’t that smart ;)
It doesn’t take smarts to follow orders. We’re primates - monkey see, monkey do - and even an idiot will have heard of “manufactured scarcity” by this point. I wouldn’t write off the evil inherent in and enabled by the system so easily if I were you.
For sure, those with money can hire the smartest sociopaths to create amazing strategies. I didn’t want to outright spout off a conspiracy theory, but see if there is any investigation showing some kind of organized takeover of the police.
Hmm, I wonder why no one wants to be a pig? 🤔
Nobody wants to be a pig, or live in Louisiana.
High risk, and everybody hates you. Fuck that shit.
Though not as high risk as being a logger, a fishing worker, a pilot, a roofer, a general construction worker, any job driving a car or semi, any agricultural laborer, and certain types of maintenance work, among a few others.*
Granted, but cops are dangerous within their own hierarchy. They have a clubhouse mentality that people definitely need to fit in or death could be an outcome.
I don’t think the risk is as high as they perceive it to be and that seems to be a huge issue
Seems ridiculous.
Maybe they should look at reducing crime from the start, instead of just attacking it after its already underway. Better schooling and other social programs, maybe? Give people people enough prosperity so that they’ll have something they want to protect, instead of having nothing to lose.
Not profitable. They need more slaves for the Angola
PlantationPrison.Nah dawg gotta feed that slave labor machine
I would suggest they go hand in hand. It’s not a sucker’s choice.
Happy, healthy, educated people not scrapping for money don’t rob the gas station nearly as often. Supporting those issues decreases crime directly and would make for a scenario where less officers are needed.
I’m originally from Louisiana but have been away for awhile. I know that this is a problem in New Orleans, which we still visit on a regular basis, and while it was bad when I lived there, I read local news and hear from friends that it’s even worse now.
The rest of the state - outside of a few random areas here and there, depending on trends that just affect these sorts of things regardless - I would be surprised if this is a real “crisis” everywhere else vs Landry (who is a major POS btw) just wanting to lock more people up in the private prisons that allegedly may help to fund his political ambitions.
Landry is a garbage person who looooooves “law & order”, is a Trump sycophant, and who will allegedly make decisions based on what will “own the libs” the most. He’s trash. I cannot explain how awful this person is.
NO and BR always have had bad crime. Seems like authoritarian ideology bubbling to the surface again.
Nasty ass teleprompter
I thought Louisiana had a surplus of pigs
The shortage is real despite how he’s trying to play political theater with it.
Washed up cops like to set up shop in Louisiana thinking no one will see their backgrounds and then get fired once their terrible demeanor is exposed. Some Police Chiefs are also corrupt so it’s hard for them to keep the good workers.
And all of that is before some of them get arrested for crimes themselves. It’s a shit show.
