On July 22^nd, Madison, Wisconsin
police encountered a suspicious person who they thought might be trying to break into cars or steal bicycles.

Indeed, they found the suspect—one Corey Ruiz, whom they apparently tried to detain as he rode away from them on either his bike or someone else’s.

A struggle ensued as three officers tried to subdue Ruiz, and Ruiz allegedly pulled out a knife and cut an officer with it.

Despite this use of a deadly weapon, the cops tried to take him down with a non-lethal TASER, which we talked about in a previous article here.

It proved ineffective, so an officer shot Ruiz; a measure that was effective in stopping the threat.  The suspect died.

As is the fashion so often on modern police departments, the leadership felt the need to schedule a press conference to offer some explanation of the event ahead of the investigation being finished.

This is often cited as good for “transparency,” even as some of us note it almost never results in the usual anti-police parties calming down, and they insist the wrong thing was done, anyway.

At some point, the need for the community to trust the cops is then mentioned.  Who “the community” is and why we should treat them as one collective mind, is never made clear.

We are supposed to be individuals in the United States, and not shoehorned into groups defined by others who are never themselves defined.

Alas, what often happens is the loudest mouths on the field decide who the “community” is, and also presume to speak for all of them.

Meanwhile, despite all of this, an impartial investigation is supposed to be going on, with the case not being assessed in the mob of public opinion.

But this day, it got taken to another level.

Amidst the almost two-hour Q and A session for an event that lasted nowhere near two hours, a local activist stood up, walked up, relieved the police chief of his microphone, and took over the press conference.

No one pushed back—figuratively, or literally.

In the past, if some silly mutt presumed to show up in the most heavily protected room in the whole county and disrupt the proceeding, he would be made to leave, or stick around by placing him in the lockup.

In this much more progressive time, that was never thought of.

Modern American policing is being taken over by the radical mob, and it’s getting harder and harder to fool people into not noticing this.

One of the more interesting reactions to this event, from a professional standpoint, particularly, was found in an article posted on the influential law enforcement website Police One.

I had to dig past all of the advertisements for AR-15s that no officer is likely to be shooting, at this rate, and the cool tactical gear, uniforms, and Ninja toys being occasionally modeled by eye-popping, pert young women who, I can report, are rarely found in real police squad rooms.

Not that I would mind (The Deuce is a boring heterosexual).

The article was thoughtfully written and, to be fair, a lot of good stuff was discussed.

But what I was looking for, and did not see in the article, was a simple common-sense (or what used to be) statement to the effect that, if a police department cannot control its own public relations briefing… why should anyone take this department seriously?

If you don’t have the courage to say “stop” when the meeting gets out of line, how are you going to subdue a riot?

If you can’t bring yourself to tell someone their behavior is out of line, how do you make the decision to draw a gun and shoot them?

And, even if you have good people in your agency, how are they to be worth anything when they are led by lambs who are shorn of their wool or roosters minus their tailfeathers?

When a junior member of an agency makes the department look bad, these same administrators are usually all over them.

Law enforcement is supposed to be a profession.  By definition, a profession has those who understand the right things to do versus people not in the profession, who often do not understand the right things to do.

It is this idea that got us away from vigilance committees and instituted things like professional law enforcement agencies and police academies.

Despite this, the chief administrator and the members of law enforcement agencies these days are usually not at the top of the list in saying how their operations are conducted, as everyone is bending over backwards to appease naysaying people who will never be appeased, because they are working to destroy our criminal justice system in favor of another.

Judging by their obvious Communist sympathies, I think looking to a Communist country is a good guide.

They count on being the ones in charge when that happens.  I think they are in for a surprise.

Would a doctor defer medical decisions to a random visitor to the clinic?  Does a minister let just anyone preach the sermon in their stead?

If you want to say you have a profession, then you need to run it like a profession.  Part of that is telling people who want to think they know better that they don’t know better.

When you fail to do this, people rightfully think you are a joke.

Perhaps the latest tacti-cool gadget advertised next month will be a Microphone Retention Rig ™ for police administrators.

5-11, Galls, ASP, or Safariland may step up here and craft it from Cordura nylon with ABS buckles, and an extra-large strap to fit around the standard managerial police leader.

How many activists could hang suspended off of it without it breaking?  The more expensive versions might be able to support an entire Antifa squad.

Is this a joke?  Maybe.  But that gets me back to the big picture here.

Who wants to trust these folks to protect them?

Seriously, though—even if they do come up with something like this, I won’t buy one because I am too busy stocking up on other tactical gear, firearms, and ammunition for the collapse that I increasingly am certain is coming.

Law enforcement and the organs of justice are ceasing to be effective; not from a lack of guns and gear and sleekly-tatted people to wear them, but from an utter failure of what passes for police leadership to be able to stand up to the criminal element and its supporters in any sense of the word while the district attorney offices and courtrooms of the country are being filled by radicals from the Saul Alinsky camp.

Mark Deuce has had a life-long career in community law enforcement. He is the author of Deuces Wild for TTP.