I was in Mexico recently and there was an accident in the middle of the road being tended to by the Mexican Military, in uniform.  

I asked my taxi driver quizzically, “Why are the military taking care of an accident and not the police?”  The answer simply was “No one wants to be a policeman because of the cartel violence and the local economies don't have money to pay for a reliable police force and equipment.”

This accident did need heavy equipment I admit, but the lack of a police force unnerved me.

It wasn’t until I read this article that I realized where the possible future of our local police in America was going without a dependable police presence. 

Portland Police Can’t Find Recruits for Revived Gun Violence Division

https://news.yahoo.com/portland-police-t-recruits-revived-123045915.html

Now, none of this blog is weighted towards defund the police or funding the police, believe it or not.  That’s not the objective.

It’s about the possibility of military intervention in our cities and towns if we do not have a police force and becoming a military state controlled by one person or persons whoever that may be.

The left can’t use a term like “defund the police” to enact police reform while the right sees that terminology as a reason to ask for military intervention to control our cities.  Simply put we are playing into only one solution if Portland’s recent recruitment problem becomes status quo, military intervention like Mexico.  

No one wants that, not even the stretched-thin military. 

So in closing, while police reform is something that is necessary as the community stewards police are, demonizing and attacking police as the solution will only result in less police and more military intervention.

That can’t happen!