Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your Family

							Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend
Your Family
Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse
December 3, 2012
Do you think that is an alarmist headline?
Well, I am not the one saying this. Law
enforcement authorities all over the country
are telling citizens that they can no longer
deal with all the crime and that people need
to lock their doors and prepare to defend their
families. Just recently, the city attorney of
San Bernardino, California told citizens to
“lock their doors and load their guns”
because there is not enough money to pay for
adequate police protection any longer. The
murder rate in San Bernardino is up 50
percent this year, but the city is dealing with
bankruptcy and has been forced to lay off 80
police officers. But San Bernardino is not the
only city dealing with this kind of a thing. In
Oakland, burglaries are up 43 percent so far
this year, and to say that there is a “crime
wave” going on in Oakland would be a
massive understatement. If you can believe
it, in Oakland “more than 11,000 homes, cars
or businesses have been broken into so far
this year – translating to about 33 burglaries a day.” Sadly, there simply are not enough police to keep
up with it all. Due to budget cuts, it is being projected that by February the size of the police force in
Oakland will be about 25 percent smaller than it was back in 2008. But what is happening in Detroit is
perhaps even more frightening. Today there are about 1,000 fewer police officers in Detroit than there
was a decade ago. But crime just continues to rise. So now even the police are telling people to “enter
Detroit at your own risk“. With very little police protection, an increasing number of citizens are
taking matters into their own hands. As I noted in a previous article, justifiable homicide in the city of
Detroit increased by 79 percent in 2011, and the rate of self-defense killings in Detroit is
approximately 2200 percent above the national average. But don’t laugh at what is happening in cities
like San Bernardino, Oakland and Detroit. What is happening in those cities will be coming to your
community soon enough.
From coast to coast, criminals are becoming increasingly bold and increasingly desperate. My sister
lives near a large city in the middle part of the country, and a house across the street from the one her
family just moved into was recently vandalized. The criminals took all of the exposed copper pipe and
copper wire that could be accessed easily.
Other criminals have become very focused on gold because it has soared in value and it is easy to
resell. For example, there have been more than 250 gold chain robberies in Stockton, California just
                                                   since the month of April. According to the CBS News
                                                   affiliate in Sacramento, criminals are just ripping these
                                                   chains right off of the necks of unsuspecting citizens,
                                                   and many of the victims that have tried to resist have
                                                   ended up getting hurt. Normally the criminals sell off
                                                   the jewelry within 24 hours, so solving these crimes is
                                                   a real challenge…
                                                         Most victims of the robberies are female
                                                         (65 percent), and 44 percent of victims are
                                                         age 50 or older, the data showed. The most
                                                         common time of day for the crimes were
                                                         between 12 and 5 p.m., though this only
                                                         accounts for about a third of the crime.

                                                         Parino said robbers took even police by
                                                         surprise initially.

     “When [criminals] do these crimes, they normally get rid of the items within 24 hours,” he
     said.

     That’s why police are now checking up on secondhand stores and pawn shops on a weekly
     basis.

Many dismiss reports such as these as “anomalies”, but how many “anomalies” do we need before we
finally admit that we have a widespread problem in our society?
Personally, there are many major U.S. cities that I would not want to be living right in the middle of
right now. Just take a look at Chicago. It has become one of the deadliest major cities on the entire
globe. In recent years we have seen massive cuts to the police budget coupled with a dramatic increase
in gang activity in Chicago.
The murder rate in Chicago is way up this year and the police force is massively outnumbered.
As I have written about previously, there are only about 200 police officers assigned to Chicago’s Gang
Enforcement Unit. It is their job to handle the
estimated 100,000 gang members living in the
city.
How would you like to be outnumbered 100,000
to 200?
When things really hit the fan, Chicago is going
to be a complete and utter nightmare.
And sometimes we get a peek into how people
will behave when things break down. Just look
at what happened during the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy. If you can believe it, some
criminals actually took advantage of the
Thanksgiving holiday to loot homes in the
Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens. That was the neighborhood where approximately 100 homes
burned down. The suffering of the residents of that neighborhood made headlines all over the nation.
But that has not stopped criminals from moving in
and taking advantage of their vulnerability…
      Cops told the victims burglaries are on the rise
      in Breezy Point.

      There were 14 home break-ins from Nov. 12 to
      Nov. 18, compared with none a year before.

      And in the 28 days before that, there were 48
      burglaries. Only four break-ins were reported
      in that time period the year before.

      In the days after Sandy, some of the hardest-
      hit areas were plagued with store looting,
      home burglaries, street muggings and other
      crimes.

There are some very sick people out there. These
days you simply do not know who you can trust. The person you meet on the street may be perfectly
fine or they may be a total sicko. It is so hard to tell. But without a doubt there are a lot of sickos out
there. Just check out what authorities in Pennsylvania found recently…
      Animal welfare workers say 11 puppies were found dead and skinned near an eastern
      Pennsylvania park.

                                                   Sadly, authorities in that area had come across another
                                                   similar incident recently…
                                                         The discovery is second disturbing
                                                         incident in the county in less than a week.
                                                         About 20 miles away in Lynn Township
                                                         police say a dog was discovered skinned
                                                         and cooked.

                                                   Who would do such things?
                                                   What in the world is happening to this country?
                                                   Things are changing, and this is just the tip of the
                                                   iceberg. As conditions shift, we are all going to have
                                                   to carefully evaluate what is necessary to protect our
                                                   families. Don’t ignore all of the warning signs.
                                                   Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that
                                                   everything is going to be okay is not going to help
                                                   anything.



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