• How much will police reform cost?

It doesn’t matter!

Let me run some numbers for you…

• Average local/state police officer makes about $67,000 per year.
• American middle-class median income for a 2-person family is $51k, a 3-person family is $63k. So cops are in the upper-middle class in the US. So don’t buy into the crap that police are underpaid. Yeah then get more educated, add in their benefits and pensions! Cops can retire in 25 – 30 years, most with 80 – 100% pensions. Yup, that means their new pension check equals their old paycheck in many cases.
• There are about 906,000 local and state police officers in the US. That comes out to a total annual cost of about $61billion without including benefits and pensions.
• FWIW…there are 35% more cops in the US now than in 1980.
• There is no firm figures for annual equipment and gear costs for police officers but estimates run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
• The 2022 US GDP (gross domestic product) was $26trillion.

So the costs for police officers break down like this…

• Total cost of US crime: $2.6trillion (10% of GDP)
• Cost to US citizens for speeding tickets: $ .6trillion ( 2.3% of GDP)
• Cops salaries (benefits not included): $ .61trillion (2.4% of GDP)
• Equipment/gear/benefits/pensions: $ .05trillion ( .02% of GDP)

TOTAL COSTS OF COPS: $3,860,000,000,000 (14.8% of GDP)

Think about that…total cost of local and state police officers in the United States is nearly 4trillion dollars in unsolved crime, salaries, gear, pensions, and out of pocket fines for US citizens!!!!! That is an unreal amount when you consider that is nearly 15% of the US GDP for 2022.

Now consider the 6,000 unsolved murders each year. Then add in the 75,000 unsolved rapes each year on top of that. So we can’t not do police reform…it is as simple as that.

In the United States local and state police officers are well-paid! They earn above median income for middle-class Americans. When you factor in their pensions and benefits they are easily at the top of the middle-class of Americans.

Now, think about all of those costs to US citizens…

We can not tolerate not having serious and extensive police reform!

The numbers and facts speak for themselves.

Related Articles –

• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #1)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #2)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 1)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 2)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 3)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 4)

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Did you read yesterday’s Part #1?

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Well, I ain’t done yet…in 2022 alone 1,176 people were killed by police, only 128 killings by police took place where the person was allegedly seen with a weapon. In 132 killings by police no offense was alleged by police. 104 were killed by police during a welfare or mental healthy check. That is more than 3 civilians killed every day by police. That’s almost 3 unarmed people a day killed by police in the USA in 2022.

And for the record…in 2022 a total of 46 police officers died in the line of duty intentionally. FWIW…that makes the job of a police officer the 18^th most dangerous job in America…behind:

17. First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers

16. First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and grounds keeping workers

15. Miscellaneous agricultural workers

14. Construction equipment operators

13. Construction laborers

12. Electrical power-line installers and repairers

11. Golf course grounds maintenance workers

10. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers

9. Underground mining machine operators

8. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

7. Structural iron and steel workers

6. Refuse and recyclable material collectors

5. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers

4. Construction trade helpers

3. Roofers

2. Logging workers

1. Fishing and hunting workers

So next time you hear someone say being a police officer is a dangerous job…well, now you know the facts. Being a garbage collector or a golf course greens keeper are far more a dangerous jobs than being a police officer.

And finally lets add salt to the wound…approximately 825 cops are criminally charged each year, with 50% of those charges being for violent crimes. Oh, and that is only with 15% of all law enforcement agencies reporting those statistics to begin with. So the real numbers are in the thousands!

So let’s go back to the original question…Do We Need Police Reform?

Well, the answer is pretty clear to me!!

Let’s start fixing our criminal justice system at the street level:

• Get cops on the street solving crimes that have been committed.
• Stop all cops from traffic citation duty until the percentage of crimes solved hits 90+% of all crimes committed.
• Get bad cops off the force! Prosecute any bad cop to the fullest extent of the law.
• Citizen oversight of all law enforcement agencies; elected police chiefs, civilian hiring and promotion boards, etc.
• Eliminate “professional courtesy” among cops.
• Stop preferential treatment of cops when they are suspected of a crime.
• Drastically reduce “qualified immunity” for police.
• No union involvement in police department operations…period.
• All cops wear body cams. Failure to turn on a body cam is an immediate termination offense.
• 100% of body cam footage is made public within 24 hours of any police involved incident.

Along with that…give support and respect to good cops who have earned it!!! The good cops need our support and respect and help…give it to them!

Now, we have to face facts…our police officers and agencies in the United States need reform badly. Police are failing and failing miserably. Not only are they failing, they are costing US citizens trillions of dollars each year in their pathetically poor performance. They are costing thousands of lives each year by not solving violent crimes and getting those criminals in jail. The police themselves are committing crimes against citizens and killing citizens each year at a staggering rate.

The facts, evidence, statistics…everything tells us…

We need police reform!

Related Articles –

• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #1)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #2)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 1)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 2)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 3)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 4)

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Before we can even address that question at all we need to pull the politics out of it…get rid of the activists, the lunatics, the politically insane and just look at facts. Then, the facts should speak for themselves. So agreed? Facts only!

Let’s talk about crime…isn’t that what policing is all about? Police are to prevent and solve crimes…yes? Otherwise, why have police?

Before we can realistically discuss crime facts we have to understand a couple of things:

• Violent crimes consists mainly of murder, rape, and assaults.
• Property crimes consists mainly of robbery, larceny, burglary, auto theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism.
• Only about 40% of all violent crimes are reported to police.
• Only about 32% of all property crimes are reported to police.
• Only about 80% of all reported crimes are forwarded to a centralized collection and reporting entity.
• That means only about 26 – 32% of all crimes can be used to calculate statistics.
• For this article I will round the average to a 30% figure.

Remember back in school…grade cards. These pesky things came out every so often and told your parents how you were doing in school. A in reading, C in math, B in history and so forth. And at the end of the year the grades were all factored together to decide if you passed or not. If your grades were really bad you didn’t pass, you were held back to repeat the same grade…because you couldn’t prove you learned all that you should have.

Generally accepted throughout the US is a universal grading scale. (see below)

Using that scale, anyone scoring below a 66% received an “F” for fail. Looking at in in reverse…if you failed a test, quiz or an entire grade level it was because you couldn’t get 66% of the goal accomplished. Granted, I don’t know any parent or teacher that would ever give a straight “F” student the title of “failure” under any circumstances. But it was clearly understood that the student had major learning problems…or a serious problem to produce.

And then there were the dreaded “teacher comments” on the grade card as well. Yeah, in my case the teachers always had something to say…you can figure out what.

In the US:

• Total reported stolen property crime amounts to about $16,000,000,000 each year…16billion dollars.
• On average about 30% of reported stolen property is recovered…about 4.8billion dollars.
• Total reported arson loses total about $17,000,000,000 each year…17billion.
• Total auto theft loses come in at about $7,000,000,000…7billion.
• Sadly there are approximately 21,000 murders/homicides each year.
• Reported rapes are listed at about 150,000 each year, 13% of which men are the victims. This number is actual rapes, not attempted rape or sexual assaults. Current estimates are 80% of all actual rapes are unreported.

And consider this staggering statistic…the total cost of all crime in the US for 2017 is estimated at $2.6trillion! Yup, $2,600,000,000,000 each year.

Now, think about this for a minute…on an average year 41,000,000 speeding tickets are issued. And the average cost per ticket is $152. That means police earn over 6billion dollars per year for their government agency…$17,000,000 (17million) per day going into government bank accounts just from speeding tickets!

Why talk about the cost of speeding tickets? Well, hang in there for a minute.

So we now know that police can’t prevent crime…crime costs us $2.6trillion per year. And while they are not preventing crime they are actually taking money out of our pockets another $6billion per year in speeding tickets alone. That is a 3.2trillion dollar loss to US citizens each year.

Now, let’s get back to actual reported crimes:

• Only about 18% of all property crimes are solved.
• Only about 45% of all violent crimes are solved.

According to the generally accepted grading scale in the US:

• Police in the US would receive an “F” grade when it comes to solving property crime.
• Police in the US would receive an “F” grade when it comes to solving violent crime.
• And the “teacher notes” would show something like this, “The failure of your child to perform their duties cost each United States man, women, child, and baby over $10,000 per year.”

First think to think about…over an average lifespan, the F‘s cost the average person nearly a million dollars!

Then think about this…there is a complete and total failure of police to prevent crime and near total failure of police solving crime…while working diligently 24-hours a day to cost US citizens $17,000,000 per day in speeding tickets alone! Yeah, that is over $700,000 per hour in just speeding tickets coming out of American citizen’s pockets!

So then think about these facts:

• Over 260,000 total unsolved murders in the US.
• Over 16 unsolved murders get added to that number each day.
• Over 135 rapes go unsolved each day.

So you think the police industry in the USA needs reformed?

But I am not done yet…

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Related Articles –

• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #1)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #2)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 1)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 2)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 3)
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Q&A – 4)

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I hope you’ve been following the banking crisis that has been unfolding for the last 2 weeks, I don’t want to recap all of it. Here are my articles that can bring you up that touch on this matter:

• ! WARNING ! Do you have your emergency cash fund?
• SVB – Banks – Failure – Update
• Another Bank Failure…more troubling signs…
• More on the bank failings…

One of the questions I get is “Is it over?” The answer to that one is simple…No! Actually, it is just getting started. But a lot of what is going to be happening will be behind closed doors, in smoke filled backrooms, and at the Fed in secret.

Here is a curve ball for you…this ain’t the big reset, at least not yet. Well, if it isn’t the reset, then what is it, you might ask. That is where opinions rule. My friend Jim, a very intelligent and astute guy, told us, “Get ready for the big waves.” And he also mentioned that this isn’t going “…to approach Great Financial Crisis levels of pain and economic disaster.” I pretty much agree with that.

Back on the 13^th I told you this was the “tip of the iceberg” and more failures could be coming…and they did. SVB was the 2^nd largest failure in US history, then later in the week we got the 3^rd largest failure.

And then comes Credit Suisee. The 45^th largest bank in the world with almost a trillion dollars in assets…and it failed. A couple interesting things about this bank…it clearly started to fail in 2020, was in the tank by 2021, was a disaster in 2022, and finally, just days ago, closed its doors. Or rather, sold out to, or taken over by, (whatever you want to call it) by its competitor UBS. And UBS is the 34^th largest bank in the world with well over a trillion in assets.

So now we have UBS acquiring Credit Suisee and becoming somewhere in the neighborhood of the 11^th or 12^th largest bank in the world with over 2 trillion $’s in assets. Of course the deal was made sweeter by the Swiss Central Bank (US Federal Reserve equivalent) kicking in $54billion. I guess that was just the way global bankers say “thank you!” to fellow global bankers…a $54,000,000,000 thank you card. And let’s not forget where the Swiss Central Bank gets its funding from…the US Federal Reserve, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars since 2008.

And let’s return to SVB, we know it went out of business. Well, not exactly. The FDIC took it over and created a new bank, National Bank of Santa Clara. And the FDIC was ordered by Biden to ensure that no one loses a single dollar. Which is directly against the FDIC mandate/law. Why did Biden make this move? We know it is due to the bank being a bank of the elites. I received an email from an insider confirming this. It was also a role model bank for ESG loans and promoting the LGBQT+ agenda. And if the average person could get access to them…you could trace 2024 campaign donations to Biden and company back to SVB account holders who stood to lose millions, if not billions, if Biden didn’t act to protect their interests.

So now let’s link SVB and Credit Suisee…both were huge ESG supporters and highly rated by companies like Fitch Ratings for their ESG support. On a scale of 1 – 5, 5 being the most supportive and highest ESG rating, Credit Suisee was in the mid-4’s. And we know that SVB was a model of ESG support and promotion in the US. Interesting?

And now let’s hit on one other aspect of all of this…Signature Bank. They went belly up last week as well…the 3^rd largest bank failure. An 11-bank consortium agreed to save that bank with $30billion cash infusion. Those banks are: Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, First Republic Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNY Mellon, PNC Bank, State Street, Truist and U.S. Bank. Besides knowing who saved Signature Bank…nice to know they too have an ESG rating of 4.

And finally one more tidbit of information…on March 14^th I identified the 6 banks that were in near-identical condition that SVB was in. But, just recently a list of nearly 200 banks that are in rough shape came out…and nearing that collapse point.

But all that is still not the point. The point is this three-fold; 1) Biden is protecting the country’s/world’s elite and ensuring that they get wealthier via the Federal Reserve & FDIC by unilaterally changing US banking police/law, 2) wealth/resources globally are being consolidated in fewer and fewer hands, 3) this is only the tip of the iceberg, only the beginning.

And yes, I think this all was/is intentional, clearly intentional.

Now, here is my opinion…and remember, I am no expert anything, no professional anything, just expressing my personal opinion…

I don’t think this is the final world economic collapse. It is a move toward that goal, but it not the final straw/move. The world’s elites, think WEF, are just testing the waters, making smaller moves, perfecting their process…for the final outcome.

I think we are going to see more “saving” of banks…for the good of people, the little guys…or so they say. And while it will be said that the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, or a bank consortium that do the saving…it will taxpayer money.

Well, actually it will be printed money that taxpayers are on the hook for. And that will lead to the collapse and the introduction of a new currency, probably a US Federal Reserve cryptocurrency. And when that happens…other cryptocurrency will become outlawed.

Yeah, doubt me? Don’t forget the US government outlawed the private ownership of gold at one point…at the penalty of going to prison…after having the gold confiscated.

Now, you might ask me about time-frame, valid question. Back in mid-February I made mention that the US government would start a “shooting war” with US citizens. I stand by that. I also think that the same time-frame exists for this economic/bank situation to go to hell in a hand-basket.

Unless something drastic changes within this next 2-years…we are in a world of hurt…and mean life changing, world changing, massive problems! To put into words that best describe my feelings about it…World-Wide Revolution. And it will be ugly, deadly, and worse than most folks can imagine.

But, you and your family can weather that storm…if you prepare. And actually, I think we can avoid that world-wide devastation with divine intervention. And that will only come according to His will and our prayers. So pray.

And am I 100% right about all of this? Of course not! I could be wrong about the timing, about the impact, about magnitude, and maybe about all of it. But you have to decide on my past posts to judge my thoughts on the future.

Plan, don’t panic. Prepare, don’t panic. Pray, don’t panic. There is no need to panic whatsoever, none. What you need to do is plan, prepare, pray, and do.

But do yourself a favor…regardless of what you think of me and my posts, regardless of what you think is going on in the world, or what is coming…prepare and pray anyways/always. If you do that, can you go wrong?

Related Articles –

• ! WARNING ! Do you have your emergency cash fund?
• SVB – Banks – Failure – Update
• Another Bank Failure…more troubling signs…
• More on the bank failings…
• Then they came for… (part #3 of 3)

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Just a quick update on the banking issues we are facing right now:

• This is only the tip of the iceberg.
• SVB was the model for the ESG agenda.
• The collapse may well have been intentional as a system test for going forward.
• SVB was one of the banks for the ultra elite. That is why Biden is covering any/all loses.
• There is even more, I am trying to sort it out…but my time is short with the solar upgrade taking place.

The single most troubling aspect…Biden. Yeah, go figure! What I mean is his “Dictator-In-Chief” agenda. Biden, single handedly, without any action or approval from Congress, changed how the FDIC works…took the law into his own hands. FDIC is suppose to be insurance for $250,000 (and below) account holders…protecting the little guy from banks going bad. Banks pay into the government for that “insurance” to be used when needed.

Well, Biden changed that without Congressional approval to cover all accounts at SVB. And now that is the new precedence. And who is going to object to it? Biden comes to the rescue…people love heroes.

Oh, and another piece of information…there is no “insurance fund” when it comes tot he FDIC. With the US federal government there is only one account…a single account that ALL money goes into and out of. There is no insurance pool of money for the FDIC…simply an amount that can be tracked on the government accounting books. When the amount hits zero…and it will, they always do…the US federal government will simply print more money to use to cover ever growing losses.

But notice this is another in a long line of Biden actions where he simply changes a system to suit his will…or rather the will of those controlling him. These are dangerous and disastrous actions taking place…but they are intentional and by design. What Biden comes next?

Two last items…1) this is tied directly to forthcoming US Government cryptocurrency, 2) we are only seeing the tip of the banking problem iceberg. And you do remember what the most famous iceberg in history did to the Titanic…right?

I really hope you have been reading my articles over the last 14 years, especially the last 3 – 4 years…I mean that sincerely. You better get more prepared even as we speak.

Pray for our country, our people, your neighbors…we need the prayers of good people.

Related Articles –

• Another Bank Failure…more troubling signs…
• SVB – Banks – Failure – Update
• ! WARNING ! Do you have your emergency cash fund?
• Cryptocurrency…Idiots…FTX…Evil…
• The Fallacy of “Month-Over-Month” Inflation Numbers
• Massive (un)Employment Problems!
• SitRep – 12/07/2022 (part #1)
• SitRep – 12/07/2022 (part #1)
• SitRep – 12/02/2022
• SitRep – 10/19/2022 – Dire Warning !

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