Seattle police call it quits. What's next? Vigilantism

Something will fill the vacuum left by police, and it seems doubtful the left will like the results.

Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best

 Seattle police cannot use any crowd-control devices and must, effectively, let the violent, lawless rioters run free. 

Seattle’s police chief alerted residents that they are on their own now.

Here is Chief Best's letter to the city council:

University of Tennessee law Prof. Glenn Reynolds wrote in June about the absence of police:

We’ll see a lot of vigilante justice. And what are people gonna do about it? Call the cops? Remember, in the end the police aren’t there to protect the public from criminals, they’re there to protect criminals from the public. Communities dealt with crime long before police were invented, usually in rather harsh and low-due-process ways. The bargain was, let the police handle it instead. No police, no bargain.

Get ready, folks. Major parts of the country are about to descend to the level of the Wild Wild West.

Update: A federal judge has ruled to overturn the Seattle city council's prohibition of non-lethal riot-control measures.

A good friend of mine for 25 years lives in Seattle; he texted me yesterday,

Last night got tense with somebody trying to burn down the court house but Feds kept their distance. They torched the new juvenile detention center that's being built also this weekend.

And the link to this: At Least 45 Arrested After Seattle Police Declare Riot