Another Brick in the Wall

 

"Suspects from France, Canada and out of Georgia among those arrested in 'significant escalation' at Atlanta's police and fire training facility."

Fox News, 3/6/2023

copyright Fox News, 2023

It doesn't require genius at any level, let alone one that might be considered galactic, to think that money poured into training - both course work and the facilities to support it - will have a positive effect on performance. In any profession. It cannot be stressed more fervently in situations where lives are at stake.

Look at flash point incidents in which police officers have erred and one finds the likely root causes in two major areas - inadequate training and negligent supervision. One would think that making strides forward in American Law Enforcement would begin with... Call me a sentimental fool, but investing in the men and women who choose public service seems an obvious step in the right direction.

 

One need know nothing about policing or firefighting to know the value of training. Have you ever engaged the services of a car repair shop, only to have the vehicle returned worse than when it arrived? Called a plumber to mend a small leak and ended up with a flooded basement? It seems any fool could cut down a tree, until the fool takes out a corner of your deck (it needed rehab, anyway).

So Atlanta found some money and is trying to build a state-of-the-art training facility for its first responders. Police officers and fire fighters will be trained to address the complex, often tendentious and sometimes dangerous aspects of their jobs. Initial selection, basic training and certifications in risky businesses would have applied the best methods, the best facilities and the best instructors at hand.

 

Instead of celebrating Atlanta's vision, the crazies have descended. Not only are they throwing commercial-grade fireworks, bricks and gasoline bombs ("Molotov cocktail" makes it sound like a vodka tonic) at the cops, but recently one of the "protesters" shot a Georgia State police officer. That officers returned fire (and returned the protester's soul to the Creator) means little, apparently, to the hoard of anarchists, thugs and criminals who have a vested interest in... What?

Anarchy, because anarchy is fun for the anarchists.

I have an idea. I wonder how fun it would seem if someone from France (for example), on an Anarchist Roadtrip, had their vacation extended with a few decades in an American Federal prison?

 

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