All over the country, in cities big and small, police departments are recruiting tiny fractions of what they used to be able to. Cleveland's graduating class from police academy this year was 9 piglets. In 2000, they had 87. Similar drops are happening all over the country. Cities may be refusing to defund, but their PDs are shrinking anyways because the vast majority of people have realized that cops are basically evil.
I wonder if they'll copy what happened to the american military over the past 20ish years and shift away from larger numbers of "regular" cops and towards smaller numbers of better armed and equipped "special forces" cops supported by drones and other tech. Less "boots on the ground" and more "surveilling cities with drones" with followup swat raids. I know it's already happening to a certain extent but I wonder if the lack of recruits will exacerbate it
Other option could be recruiting people from abroad to do law enforcement. Historically, many regimes have used "foreigners" for security purposes because they don't have local loyalties or attachments to the population.
That said, this option probably won't happen in the US because of
You say that now, just wait until the Azov PD is recruited to "stabilize" American cities
how are there any of them left?
Wars are great at radicalizing people, and azov had a head start even before the war with their "summer camps" so I don't doubt they have quite a pool of recruits to choose from
True, though now I'm curious about what would end the cycle. If the population of young adult men in Ukraine is nearly halved and they're still recruiting willing nationalist zealots, what ends it?
Well in Nazi Germany they got as far as mobilizing the volksturm and the Red Army storming Berlin, so my guess is it'll unfortunately go pretty fucking far before the situation comes to an end
Kill one insurgent, and two rise up to take his place.
They kinda do this but with recruiting from the suburbs to patrol the city.
Yes. I think that there is a lot of deputizing of regular people into roles like immigration control and with gun ownership concentrated in a class of people more than willing to use it against others, they may already cover their lost personnel.
Idk, I can imagine the thought of Israel is their major talent pool. Supposedly there are a lot of over educated young people with their mandatory military training
They could deputise random people into auxiliary police units with rudimentary training to do stuff like traffic control. Another option is using the military to do stuff
We did this with the Irish. Brazil could do
My city is moving towards that already. They keep trying to push a new drone initiative and the ppl show up to counter it over and over but it'll happen eventually.
They'll spend a million dollars on a single robot dog with a flamethrower attachment, and it'll get stolen and sold to a scrap shop in 48 hours.