In Melbourne we've got a Rockerfeller funded Resilient Cities program. We're one of 100 cities. If your city is on this list It's coming for you too. https://resilientcitiesnetwork.org/network/

I always thought we had a good police force in Melbourne. They started a huge recruitment drive about 10 years ago to pick up people with no skills, and stick them on every train station with police powers. They've gradually become a force to be reckoned with for the good cops.

My friends at the riots say these riot police are all 20 years old, and acting like they're methed up.

Solzhenitsyn wrote that what happened in USSR was they'd recruit complete no hopers, people who's life was going to go nowhere. Give them a job in the police force and suddeny they've gone from someone powerless to someone who turns heads and instills fear. They start our with easy tasks, but got promoted the more psychotic they proved.