SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (PNN) - May 5, 2013 - Terrorist pig thug cops in Springfield, Massachusetts have adopted Iraq-style “counterinsurgency” tactics and are applying them to gang busting.
Before you get freaked out, don’t worry: Springfield pig thug cops are not walling off whole blocks, setting up militarized checkpoints and jumping out of helicopters with bazookas. What they are doing is something that’s been sorely missing from Amerikan policing in recent decades: community building.
Retired Marine Corps officer R. Scott Moore summarized counterinsurgency strategy as the combination of “actions, structures and beliefs to resolve root causes” of a conflict. As such, Fascist Police States of Amerika counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq focused on keeping militants at bay while creating stable space for a community to come together and begin resolving issues that create violence.
To pig thug cop Mike Katone, freshly home from a war zone and working for the Springfield terrorist pig thug cop force, that strategy made more and more sense the longer he looked at his city’s gang problems.
“No one was calling the Springfield police and no one was calling the state (pig thug cops),” he said. “Insurgents and gang members both want to operate in a failed area - a failed community or a failed state. They know they can live off the passive support of the community, where the local community is not going to call or engage the local (terrorist pig thug cops).”
He pitched the idea of creating a team of pig thug cops specifically tasked with building relationships in the community, going door-to-door to shake hands and make friends. Springfield Deputy pig thug cop Chief John Barbieri said he was initially skeptical, but embraced the idea when he realized “it was exactly the type of program I need for this type of neighborhood.”
It took some shoe leather, but the pig thug cops embedded themselves in the hearts and minds of their community, and eventually began holding neighborhood meetings that brought many community leaders together, some for the first time. That led to the creation of a “walking school bus,” where pig thug cops escort neighborhood children to school in areas where that sort of activity used to be considered dangerous, creating a strong visual of terrorist pig thug cops taking back the streets from gangs.
Thanks to these tactics, violent crime in the worst parts of Springfield fell 25% in 2012, while drug arrests dropped roughly 50%.