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"This Is A Glock Block" – Frustrated Homeowners All Over America Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
All over the United States, frustrated homeowners are banding together, arming themselves and patrolling their own streets. One of the primary reasons this is happening is because police budgets all over the nation are being slashed at a time when violent crime rates in the United States are increasing and many our our largest cities are being transformed into crime-infested war zones. So instead of waiting for government to come up with a solution, many Americans are taking matters into their own hands.
For example, one community group in Milwaukie, Oregon has started posting flyers with an ominous message for potential criminals: "This is a Glock block. We don’t call 911." You can see a photo of this flyer right here. One of the founders of the "Glock Block" is a breast cancer survivor named Coy Tolonen. She decided to arm herself after a thief stole one of her favorite statues out of her front yard while she was watching...
It’s mostly petty crime that neighbors are sick and tired of: stolen lawn ornaments, vandalism. But for neighbors like Tolonen, a breast-cancer survivor, that’s enough: “I will defend myself — and my home,” she told KOIN 6 News.
Tolonen recently had a beloved statue she calls “Lilly Rose” stolen off her front porch. She said she even saw the man who stole it and tried to chase him down — but he got away.
This was the last straw for Tolonen, who decided to take a class to get her concealed carry permit.
We are seeing similar things happen in other areas of the nation. As I wrote about yesterday, the size of the police force has been cut in half in the city of Detroit over the past ten years. Meanwhile, crime rates have skyrocketed. So frustrated citizens are now teaming up with the police to patrol their own neighborhoods...
Volunteers given radios and matching T-shirts help officers protect neighborhoods where burglaries, thefts and thugs drive away people who can’t rely on a police force that lost a quarter of its strength since 2009. With 25 patrols on the streets, the city hopes to add three each year. Meanwhile, the homicide rate continues rising.
In some wealthier neighborhoods around the country, citizens are pooling their resources and are hiring private security firms to ward off criminals. Just check out what is happening in Oakland...
After people in Oakland’s wealthy enclaves like Oakmore or Piedmont Pines head to work, security companies take over, cruising the quiet streets to ward off burglars looking to take advantage of unattended homes.
“With less law enforcement on the streets and more home crime or perception of home crime, people are wanting something to replace that need,” says Chris de Guzman, chief operating officer of First Alarm, a company that provides security to about 100 homes in Oakland. “That’s why they’re calling us and bringing companies like us aboard to provide that deterrent.”
According to Steve Amitay, the executive director of the National Association of Security Companies, this is also happening in other high crime cities such as Atlanta and Detroit. In fact, it is being projected that the "private cop" business is going to absolutely boom in the years ahead.
But not everyone can afford to hire private cops. Those with more limited resources are trying to cope with rising crime any way that they can.
In Chicago, firefighters are actually being enlisted to provide security for public school students walking to and from school...
The city of Chicago has ordered its firefighters to provide security for public school students walking to and from class through the city’s gang turf, according to an official memo from the Chicago Fire Department that WND obtained.
The memo, signed by Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago, states that the fire department will have “a strong physical presence” along student walking routes for three weeks at the beginning of the school year in the fall.
Sadly, this is just the beginning. As the U.S. economy continues to get even worse, so will crime, gang activity and social decay.
But that doesn't mean that everyone will be bad.
The truth is that there are still some decent people out there.
Today, someone sent me a story about human decency that made me smile. In Laguna Niguel, California a man accidentally sold a wooden watch box for $10 that contained his wife's $23,000 wedding ring. When his wife found out about it, she was absolutely crushed...
Racquel Cloutier was distraught after her husband, Eric, told her he had sold the wooden watch box in which she had hidden the ring before going to hospital to have their fifth child. “I immediately started crying,” said Mrs. Cloutier, 31, of Laguna Niguel, California. “I just wanted the ring to be in a safe place and out of reach from my two-year-old twins.”
Fortunately, the box had ended up with a very honest couple...
A dozen kilometres away, in Mission Viejo, Alyssa and Andrew Lossau were frantically searching for a set of keys. They looked inside a box that Mrs. Lossau’s mother, Chaundel Holladay, had bought at a garage sale and given them as a gift.
Inside, they discovered the three-carat diamond ring. Mrs. Lossau found an email address for Mrs Cloutier and contacted her. “It is giving me faith in people again,” said Mr. Cloutier, 38. “By the grace of God it ended up with the most honest people,” said his wife.
So that story had a very happy ending.
There are still people out there that are ready and willing to do the right thing.
But not everyone is that way. It has been said that desperate people do desperate things, and when the next major wave of the economic collapse strikes there are going to be millions of very desperate people out there on the streets of America.
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It is only partially because of budget cuts - the primary reason our nieghborhoods are unsafe is because the police don't police. They are misdirected in to patrol cars, in to SWAT teams, in to detective forces...in to everything but what the police are supposed to be...an unending, untiring watch upon our neighborhoods so that all of us can have a reasonable assurance that nothing will happen...and that if it does, a beat cop is only moments away.
Get police forces out of the business of solving crimes or going after drug gangs and just have them patrol the streets. Sure, its boring, but it is what police are for. They aren't there to fight - they are there to provide a deterrent against anyone who wants to break the peace. A cop on a street corner means that at least on that street corner, nothing bad will happen that day.
Just make sure you don't go down a Cock Block.
in NJ, it's almost criminal to own a gun.
Can't go wrong with a Glock.
Glock and Load.
I bought the Smith and Wesson SW9VE that got them sued by Glock for copying them. It's a good little gun. Loaded and ready...and close by.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-sd-sigma-pistols/119778-my-sw9...
Speaking purely personally, as regards taste... I rather prefer the SA XD-9T.
It's a Bourbon vs. Irish thang.
They're both good.
Then rent. If the neighborhood sucks, you can walk away. Let the homeowners deal with the mess.
So frustrated citizens are now teaming up with the police to patrol their own neighborhoods...
Teaming up with pigs? Are they nuts?
I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.
Too many donuts.
@Nick Jihad +100 ;>)
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083936/
This from the people who brought us Barack Obama.
If the Us does its usual thing it will hire Chinese PLA troops to patrol their residential areas, house them in low-cost barracks, feed them a bowl of rice, and marvel how cheaply they can get Chinese to patrol their streets. The Outsourcing Wonder
Atleast the IRS is getting their $70 million in well deserved bonuses. <Sarc on>
Who has even heard of Milwaukie, Oregon? I can't see a bunch of criminals plotting: "Yeah, man, let's go have a crime spree in Milwaukie, Oregon." Thanks for the comedy.
Gangs and tribalism. But it goes even deeper than anthropology.
Gangs and pack animals, like hyenas. Ah, the noble hyena.
But it goes even higher than anthropology.
Gangs and Corporations.
What's the difference between the Bloods and Enron? Or Corzine et al ? Or, if you must, the Administration?
A lot of lawyers.
Everyone should be armed if capable and the strong should protect the weak. De Liber Opresso.
In certain ideological circles now, it is believed that everyone should be disarmed, except for the state.
Oh, and the poor criminals who are living off of state welfare (whether that's 3 hots and a cot in prison, or programs outside of prison) ... and whose racial profiles are manipulated politically in order for some to get very rich. And powerful.
Who is shooting whom? In NYC, according to that liberty loving PD and their beloved leader, Ray Kelly, it's 96% black and hispanic shooting each other. Ah, but you can't discuss this, that would be racist. While stop and frisk is just good police work ?
If the President wanted to reduce gun violence, he would be on a plane to Chicago, his home town. Where his former Chief of Staff is now the Mayor. But if you point fingers at the problem, maybe you might solve the problem. Solving the problem might involve liberating the very chattel that you have enslaved to drive your machine ... oh, the dilemma. Oh the irony of it all.
Judging by the state of extreme violence and cannibalism that 'certain racial groups' dwell in everywhere in the world they exist, I don't think it requires any sort of 'manipulation' on the part of any rich people to induce them to behave like wild animals.
People are anti-gun....until their daughter, sister, mother, or wife get raped.
Then the glocks come out.
Government can't even keep drugs out of jail, refuses to enforce the borders, and yet these stupid f*cking liberals think that outlawing guns will solve all our problems. You just can't make this stuff up.
Paying some thugs (police) to protect you from other thugs (broke, desperate Americans turning to crime to feed themselves) is never a good idea.