How To Deal with Criminals When the Police Stand Down

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Minneapolis has been at the center of the widespread insurrection and rioting the country has seen over the last couple of months.  Its City Council has voted to disband the police, while crime is surging (those who think those two things are unrelated can stop reading here).

With robberies and other violent crime on a tear while the police sit in criminal justice reform’s doghouse, law enforcement has sent out tips for how law-abiding citizens should react to criminals.  The advice is pithy:  Obey them.

This is a verbatim copy of the message the police sent to residents of one district where things have become particularly bad:

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Let’s be clear about what this is and isn’t.  It isn’t merely the usual list of safety tips.  It’s a note of surrender.  Having embraced an ideology where the robber is the victim of malevolent social forces the rest of us are guilty of having perpetuated, criminal justice reform now reaches its logical conclusion:  To those you have so grievously wronged, have the decency to hand over your wallet  —  and don’t be so foolish as to think your wallet is where this should, or is going to, stop.