This a Glock Block... This is the new welcome wagon sign in one Oregon town. Declining police budgets in Clackamas County have led resident Coy Tolonen to take matters into her own hands. Having had enough over what she saw was a crime wave, of petty crimes, she decided that this was "a glock block" further explaining "we don't call 911"
“We don’t feel neighborhood watch is sufficient, and we don’t feel the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office is sufficient.”This is a growing trend around the country, everywhere gun culture enthusiasts are "policing" their own neighborhoods. In Detroit there is a similar effort. According to Bloomberg...
Volunteers given radios and matching T-shirts help officers protect neighborhoods where burglaries, thefts and thugs drive away people who can’t rely on a police force that lost a quarter of its strength since 2009. With 25 patrols on the streets, the city hopes to add three each year. Meanwhile, the homicide rate continues rising.Indeed the homicide rate is rising and rising fast. According to The Christian Science Monitor things aren't looking to improve anytime soon
Revenue into cities has dropped every year since 2007, according to the National League of Cities. Oakland, already struggling with one of the highest murder rates in the nation, laid off 80 police officers in 2010...As America descends into a hellscape where the free market is responsible for police protection declaring
YOUR block a glock block is likely the next stop on America's downward austerity spiral. As you ponder a country that is descending into vigilanty justice let this tweet sink in
ACCORDING TO MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS, 6,003 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN SHOT AND KILLED IN THE 6 MONTHS SINCE THE NEWTOWN MASSACRE. NBC.
— 911 Operator (@911BUFF) June 14, 2013