Barr's Disturbing Statement on Policing Communities

Plenty of people have been talking about how wrong Barr's comments are, but nobody is quite capturing the sheer stupidity of his remarks.

There are a lot of complex issues here (as always, when discussing police and minority communities - which is primarily what he's talking about, even if he focused more on protestors) and I don't want to diminish them...

But government monopoly on violence is part of what they do.  And if you utterly abandon policing communities, they will come up with their own way of policing themselves. 

It could be an anarchists dream, I suppose. Or you could see organized crime fill in the gaps (like in Mexico), but outright abandoning communities creates space for that sort of thing.

In other words, this is how you lose your monopoly. 

Idiots. 

Why are so many of our so-called leaders so utterly lacking in wisdom?