Alright, let's get all Nostradamus up in this bitch.
Is it going to be as bad as last year? Which blue city will give in and crack down first? Which one will allow itself to perish? How many people will be arrested for defending themselves?
Any other predictions for how this year's riot season is going to shape up?
Maybe we should start a Fantasy Riot league.
There will be a lot more crime: Criminals now know, unequivocally, that cops are going to play fast and loose with regulations to err on letting criminals get away with their actions. Why do a standard hold, if doing so means you killed three people in one?
That in turn will tank housing markets in left-wing areas. (Right-wing ones too, but to a lesser extent). The tanked market will mean more poverty, less jobs... More free time and no-point-to-life kids. With minimal policing. Creating a positive feedback loop of more crime tanking the market, which makes more crime, which tanks the market more.
This will be solved by printing more money, as that is the solution every Socialist comes up with. Which leads to inflation. But that's more 3-4 years down the road.
More immediately, the news vultures will eat their corpses with glee, but won't hunt for more rotting flesh to scavenge just yet. If it jumps in front of them, they'll go for it, but they want to delay the Feast until the midterm elections, especially since that's also Kamala's 10-year-presidency gambit opportunity window.