Criminals have no respect for law and order in Vermont because of no-bail policies that allow them to commit numerous offenses in the same day; court dockets backed up by COVID and rising crime; unjustified allegations of racism against police based on skewed data; lax sentencing and parole; increased ages of juvenile prosecution; diversionary programs; and free synthetic opioids for inmates.
The town's police took a slightly different perspective from the Berlin Police Department's when asked whether citizens should intervene when they witness crimes: police chief Ed Dumas stated simply, "I have no comment on that." Rutland now boasts a sizeable citizen enforcement contingency.
Vigilante Vermonters Aren't Woke Vermonters are not Californians, though many liberals from California and New York are relocating there post-COVID, often dragging failed utopian "Theories" about criminal law enforcement with them.
If the government, courts, and police will not protect them, their families, and their businesses, it is no use telling the Green Mountain Boys to stand down and respect such failure.
As former Northfield police chief John Helfant offered in a comment for this article: If the law isn't going to protect people then people are going to protect themselves.
Vermont has significantly fewer police than it did "In the past," absurdly permissive laws to replace the law and order "Of the past," and drug-promotion policies that never existed "In the past." This is not a chicken-and-egg problem.
Progressives in Vermont may soon be praying for uniformed police to come rescue them from the chaos they have coddled and courted.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/when_american_do_the_job_their_police_wont_do.html
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