In rural areas, I wouldn't really call them "no go zones." There are places where the law enforcement is so sparse that there's no meaningful law enforcement. (That doesn't mean its a dangerous place to go.) My home county takes an hour and half to drive across, yet their law enforcement consists of the Sherriff, a deputy, and the sheriff's wife who takes care of the jail, and womans the radio. There isn't any way that level of staffing is able to do effective law enforcement over that large a territory. There's also the factor that sometimes wealth is pretty concentrated. Just few people might have the power to effectively fire the Sherriff so you end up with a list of people the Sherriff won't touch. There's been a number of cases of serial thefts that went unsolved. When the state patrol got involved and caught the person, it was always the kid of someone on that unofficial list (once, it was the Sherriff's kid). There are a lot of people with no visible means of support who always seem to have money. A lot of the time, they're running a grow operation, or cooking meth. (Puppy mills are also popular, although that's legal.) Had a neighbor who was cooking meth, after failing at running a dog racing operation. There are also places where the addresses are non-existent, although the Post Office is trying to assign addresses in those areas so they can be mapped out. Couple that with a culture of silence and mistrust of authority and it can be pretty difficult to find someone. So if you need a place to hide, one of these rural areas that are still without addresses might work.
Yes, all of this.
I should not have used the term “no go zone” because it means something very specific and particular.
But as
Yuwipi Woman says, it’s pretty clear - to me at least, based on reading stuff, listening to things like that
It Could Happen Here podcast and reading around it, talking with people in SC, common sense, and simple deduction - that with increasing levels of crime in rural America, a crisis in rural policing, the meth and opioid crises, extreme poverty, corruption throughout the justices system and the huge wide open spaces and deep forests etc, it is highly likely that there will be some places where the cops just decide they won’t go.
(I won’t given details but I will say that a cousin said to me “Oh honey, the police don’t go up in there, the police don’t go up that road!” This was an immediate and direct repy when I expressed surprise that a serious crime had not been dealt with by the police. And this isn’t even in the wide open spaces, just.... off the beaten track, in the middle of a very run down part of the state, with high crime rates.)
So yeah. No source, and I cant say it’s a fact.
The point I was making in the first place was that against this backdrop together with the surge in openly racist and far right ideology, increased gun ownership, and now the election fiasco, things could get very messy.
it seems really obvious to me, I can’t be the only one seeing this.
It seems possible, even likely, that there will be an increased number of Americans who believe (or claim to believe) that the Biden government is illegitimate. If they were previously on the fence about the government being illegitimate, this could well put them firmly down on that side, and for good.
And if I’m right about this idea that there are parts of the country where the police tend not to go - because they’re broadly in agreement with the ideology, or becasue they don’t have the manpower, or because they’re corrupt, or whatever ,- then such groups will burgeon, in numbers and in confidence. They already exist, this isn’t coming out of nowhere.
This doesn’t seem far fetched to me any more. As recently as a year ago I wouldn’t have thought this . It’s the events of the last month or two that has led me to this concern.
