If you are wearying of hearing about your hometown morphing into a sanctuary city, be thankful your parents did not name you “Scott Bixby.”
Had they, you would be the police chief of Culver City, a community that is breezing through these immigrant-complicated times with a thimbleful of perspiration.
Since November, Mr. Bixby publicly has explained 417,211 times that law-and-order – not immigration – is the P.D.’s all-day focus.
Plus three other times when he thought about sanctuary cities.
Disregarding the outdoor zoo that is San Francisco, this stands as the most bizarre law-and-disorder period in America’s 241-year history.
Was there ever a time when American lawmen were asked to close their eyes when overt lawbreakers did not just enter their cities but parked there?
Adding to the complex confusion, who can remember the last time elected officials of 300 (sanctuary city) cities were directed to serve as human shields for persons who had clearly broken the law?
When Mr. Bixby sits down in a few years to log his memoirs, he will feel a shooting pain dart across his chest when 2017 is recalled.
Lawmen across the country are not being asked, but told, to wink when illegal immigrants walk by.
There is a choice?
No.
That can lead to breathing discomfort in the chests of men and women in law who are traditionalists.
You should snap a picture.
No matter how long you live, this is unlikely to recur in your lifetime.
But then it was unlikely to occur at all during your lifetime, much less repeat.
Buckle up, sport. Bumps and sways ahead.