Hippy enclaves top-heavy, with progressives sre getting what they voted for. They elected ’em, and today’s Burlington is the result, but that unpleasant truth seems incapable of penetrating their thick skulls. The city’s police force has been understaffed since it defunded it. Crime is up, property crime is up, drug use and overdoses are up, murder is up, as is the homeless problem, all exacerbated by their sanctuary policies and indifference to policing and crime until it is they who are the victims.
A real victim not the pretend varierty they invented to feel special.
But people who call the police get what the BLM boot-licking defunders promised. Not-a-cops answer calls, if they get answered at all. SO what did they do? They replaced the departing progressive mayor with someone further to his left, and now the Police Chief has announced he’s done. Please do not re-appoint me. I don’t want the job.
Police Chief Jon Murad has submitted his letter of resignation to Progressive Party Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak effective on or before April 7.
The letter, which was released by the Mayor’s office, is dated Nov. 4, but never publicly acknowledged by the city until Tuesday.
Murad wrote the mayor to say he will not seek re-appointment for a new term in 2025, but gave no reason. The resignation came as no surprise — only the timing.
I wonder why?
“No one wants to work there,” would be my guess. The city’s leaders don’t have their backs and are more likely to toss them under the bus to justify their bad decisions. The police are not to blame for rising crime and poor response; that’s on Burlington’s politicians and the people who elect them.
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The people doing the most complaining.
I do not predict any change in trajectory for Burlington. As I’ve noted in the past, it is too far down the cistern for a turnaround. It would require a majority of voters to do something of which they appear incapable. Electing a majoirty Republican city council and Republican mayor, not just once, but over several elections. At least until things got settled, the jackboot got lifted, or any number of suitabel metaphors.
They can’t do it and are therefore doomed to doom themselves, which, if history is any indication, will trap those who can’t escape, watching those who can leave. Call it liberal privilege. The power to poison an entire town or city and then move when you can no longer tolerate what you asked for. Relocate to poison someone else’s well.
