War On Cops
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Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week, five times the rate of killing unarmed whites. Black hostility to police is therefore predictable.
Police killed more than 100 unarmed black people in 2015 — Mapping Police Violence
It's worth pointing out a trendline is reliable, but comparing year over year is not.
Because if they shot more armed blacks than unarmed blacks, that makes it right to shoot unarmed blacks.
This is how you win this war. Stand in your center, in grace. This picture is a symbol of the future. The cops have already lost. The ruling elite masters are toast. Up the revolution! Wake up sheeple.
Pffft.... arrested, booked, released with a court date.
That photo has nothing on this Canadian couple.
The war on cops
By Thomas Sowell
First posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 04:22 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 05:35 PM EDT
There was never a more appropriately named book than “The War on Cops” by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas.
Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame?
There is a tonne of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don’t even know, there are those who created the atmosphere of blind hatred in which such killers flourish.
Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the “Black Lives Matter” movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don’t matter to them.
The same is true of the more upscale, genteel and sophisticated race panderers, including the President of the United States. During his first year in the White House, Barack Obama chastised a white policeman over his handling of an incident with a black professor at Harvard — after admitting that he didn’t know the specific facts.
Nor did he know the specifics when he publicly announced that, if he had a son, that son would look like Trayvon Martin. Are we to decide who is right and who is wrong on the basis of skin colour? There was a long history of that in the days of the old Jim Crow South. Are we fighting against racism today or do we just want to put it under new management?
No one should imagine that any of this is helping the black community. The surge in murder rates across the country, in the wake of the anarchy unleashed after the Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore riots, has taken a wholly disproportionate number of black lives.
But, to the race hustlers, black lives don’t really matter nearly as much as their chance to get publicity, power, money, votes or whatever else serves their own interests.
The mainstream media play a large, and largely irresponsible, role in the creation and maintenance of a poisonous racial atmosphere that has claimed the lives of policemen around the country.
That same poisoned atmosphere has claimed the lives of even more blacks, who have been victims of violence by thugs and criminals who have had fewer restrictions as the police have pulled back, or have been pulled back, under political pressure.
The media provide the publicity on which career race hustlers thrive. It is a symbiotic relationship, in which turmoil in the streets gives the media something exciting to attract viewers. In return, the media give those behind this turmoil millions of dollars’ worth of free publicity to spread their poison.
It is certainly news when there is turmoil in the streets. But that is very different from saying that giving one-sided presentations at length of the claims of those who promote this turmoil makes sense.
The media have also actively promoted the anti-police propaganda by the way they present the news. This goes all the way back to the Rodney King riots of 1992. Television stations all across the country repeatedly played a selectively edited fraction of a videotape covering the encounter between the police and Rodney King, who had been stopped after a wild, high-speed chase.
The great majority of that video never saw the light of day on the TV networks that incessantly played the selectively edited fraction.
When the police were charged with excessive violence in overcoming Rodney King’s resistance to arrest, the jury saw the whole video — and refused to convict the policemen. That is when people who had seen only what the media showed them rioted after the jury verdict.
Today, the media keep repeating the mantra that there was a “peaceful demonstration,” even when it ends in violence. How many people have to die in “peaceful demonstrations” before the media admit that those who promote mob disruptions have to know what is likely to happen when you put mobs in the streets at night?
Mob rule is not democracy. It threatens democracy, as it threatens lives — black or white — and all lives should matter.
— Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His website is http://tsowell.com
The war on cops | SOWELL | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun
By Thomas Sowell
First posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 04:22 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 05:35 PM EDT
There was never a more appropriately named book than “The War on Cops” by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas.
Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame?
There is a tonne of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don’t even know, there are those who created the atmosphere of blind hatred in which such killers flourish.
Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the “Black Lives Matter” movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don’t matter to them.
The same is true of the more upscale, genteel and sophisticated race panderers, including the President of the United States. During his first year in the White House, Barack Obama chastised a white policeman over his handling of an incident with a black professor at Harvard — after admitting that he didn’t know the specific facts.
Nor did he know the specifics when he publicly announced that, if he had a son, that son would look like Trayvon Martin. Are we to decide who is right and who is wrong on the basis of skin colour? There was a long history of that in the days of the old Jim Crow South. Are we fighting against racism today or do we just want to put it under new management?
No one should imagine that any of this is helping the black community. The surge in murder rates across the country, in the wake of the anarchy unleashed after the Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore riots, has taken a wholly disproportionate number of black lives.
But, to the race hustlers, black lives don’t really matter nearly as much as their chance to get publicity, power, money, votes or whatever else serves their own interests.
The mainstream media play a large, and largely irresponsible, role in the creation and maintenance of a poisonous racial atmosphere that has claimed the lives of policemen around the country.
That same poisoned atmosphere has claimed the lives of even more blacks, who have been victims of violence by thugs and criminals who have had fewer restrictions as the police have pulled back, or have been pulled back, under political pressure.
The media provide the publicity on which career race hustlers thrive. It is a symbiotic relationship, in which turmoil in the streets gives the media something exciting to attract viewers. In return, the media give those behind this turmoil millions of dollars’ worth of free publicity to spread their poison.
It is certainly news when there is turmoil in the streets. But that is very different from saying that giving one-sided presentations at length of the claims of those who promote this turmoil makes sense.
The media have also actively promoted the anti-police propaganda by the way they present the news. This goes all the way back to the Rodney King riots of 1992. Television stations all across the country repeatedly played a selectively edited fraction of a videotape covering the encounter between the police and Rodney King, who had been stopped after a wild, high-speed chase.
The great majority of that video never saw the light of day on the TV networks that incessantly played the selectively edited fraction.
When the police were charged with excessive violence in overcoming Rodney King’s resistance to arrest, the jury saw the whole video — and refused to convict the policemen. That is when people who had seen only what the media showed them rioted after the jury verdict.
Today, the media keep repeating the mantra that there was a “peaceful demonstration,” even when it ends in violence. How many people have to die in “peaceful demonstrations” before the media admit that those who promote mob disruptions have to know what is likely to happen when you put mobs in the streets at night?
Mob rule is not democracy. It threatens democracy, as it threatens lives — black or white — and all lives should matter.
— Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His website is http://tsowell.com
The war on cops | SOWELL | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun
The number of people shot by the cops keeps rising, the number of cops shot keeps falling.
Some war.
Some war.
What happens when a right wing honkey gets thrown in jail with BLM'ers and get's help from a lefty organization......
“My Weekend Incarceration in a Baton Rouge Prison”:
Lee Stranahan, a BLM critic and documentary filmmaker, has posted an article that offers a profoundly human perspective on his incarceration with BLM protestors in Baton Rouge and the hope he gained when aided by the National Lawyers Guild, an organization of which he is profoundly critical.
While I don’t want to “spoil” the article, a few excerpts are worth highlighting. First, after relaying how he, BLM protestors, and other media members were unjustly arrested by the Baton Rouge police he explains:
After an hour or two in this jail facility, I was handcuffed again and transferred with 11 others to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
Here, we were put into a 20’x20′ cell, and gradually, the number of protesters in that cell grew to about 30. At no point had I been told that I was arrested, what I was being detained for specifically, or my rights.
I was the only reporter in my group. The protesters were all black, except for one, a good-natured leftist named Sean, who had come from New Orleans for solidarity. His shirt was ripped, his knee bloodied, and his face bruised from his run-in with the police, where he said he’d been tackled in the grass. Despite this, Sean was in a relatively good mood and was the only protester in the group there who had any previous protesting experience.
…
After the first couple of hours, Sean, the white leftist from New Orleans, was able to get the number of the National Lawyers Guild in Baton Rouge. I have been a major critic of the NLG, the Institutional Left group that was founded by communist attorneys and that has protected people and groups that I find repugnant.
That being said: in this case, thank God for the National Lawyers Guild.
Sean gave me the group’s number, and I decided to call them and update them on the situation in the cell. At that time we had been given no information at all by the authorities and had no idea what was going on in the outside world.
I called the NLG number, and they were all set up to take a call from jail, where you have to call collect or on a calling card. I spoke to the person who answered at 2 a.m., and I told him who I was and that I was a reporter for Breitbart News. I gave him an update on what I know.
They told me that they had a team of about 20 lawyers currently working to get everyone freed and that they were planning to provide bond for everybody. They said that they had found out most people were being charged with obstructing a roadway and that the bond should be about $250.
I asked the other inmates for their attention for a moment, then explained to them who the National Lawyers Guild was and what was going on. Everyone was very appreciative just to have information and to know that people were actually out there aware of what was going on and working on the case.
Do I wish there was a conservative, pro-liberty legal group out there that I could’ve called? You’re darn right I do, but there was no such group involved in what was going on in Baton Rouge.
I’ll also mention that when my friend and colleague Brandon Darby went to pay my $250 bond hours later, he found out that the NLG had already paid it. Had simply paid everybody’s bond. Breitbart News will be sending the National Lawyers Guild a check for $250 to reimburse them, but I appreciate the gesture and consistency, covering my bond, even though they knew I was a harsh critic of theirs.
This dialogue with the Lawyers Guild continued over the next several hours, as they took the names and contact information of everyone who has been arrested and continue to update us with information.
Lee Stranahan: My Weekend Incarceration in a Baton Rouge Prison
Not sure of how many armed Blacks they shot but I'm sure they made it appear they were armed.......
Over at Rawstory, they’ve got an article detailing eight times the police have faced off with armed suspects and the suspects lived to … fight another day.
Eight times. So you know that means they’re white, right?
We’re talking pointing guns, and actually shooting guns—sometimes while wearing body armor—at cops and these suspects actually make it out of the encounter alive. Imagine that.
Here’s a video of one of those good folks in the act of retrieving and pointing his gun at the cops down in San Diego, California. The police shoot him, he falls, then—get this—“for more than a half hour police try to convince him to move away from the gun.”
Now that’s white privilege.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_FkzbTf-KM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFzs0bwhPw
“My Weekend Incarceration in a Baton Rouge Prison”:
Lee Stranahan, a BLM critic and documentary filmmaker, has posted an article that offers a profoundly human perspective on his incarceration with BLM protestors in Baton Rouge and the hope he gained when aided by the National Lawyers Guild, an organization of which he is profoundly critical.
While I don’t want to “spoil” the article, a few excerpts are worth highlighting. First, after relaying how he, BLM protestors, and other media members were unjustly arrested by the Baton Rouge police he explains:
After an hour or two in this jail facility, I was handcuffed again and transferred with 11 others to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
Here, we were put into a 20’x20′ cell, and gradually, the number of protesters in that cell grew to about 30. At no point had I been told that I was arrested, what I was being detained for specifically, or my rights.
I was the only reporter in my group. The protesters were all black, except for one, a good-natured leftist named Sean, who had come from New Orleans for solidarity. His shirt was ripped, his knee bloodied, and his face bruised from his run-in with the police, where he said he’d been tackled in the grass. Despite this, Sean was in a relatively good mood and was the only protester in the group there who had any previous protesting experience.
…
After the first couple of hours, Sean, the white leftist from New Orleans, was able to get the number of the National Lawyers Guild in Baton Rouge. I have been a major critic of the NLG, the Institutional Left group that was founded by communist attorneys and that has protected people and groups that I find repugnant.
That being said: in this case, thank God for the National Lawyers Guild.
Sean gave me the group’s number, and I decided to call them and update them on the situation in the cell. At that time we had been given no information at all by the authorities and had no idea what was going on in the outside world.
I called the NLG number, and they were all set up to take a call from jail, where you have to call collect or on a calling card. I spoke to the person who answered at 2 a.m., and I told him who I was and that I was a reporter for Breitbart News. I gave him an update on what I know.
They told me that they had a team of about 20 lawyers currently working to get everyone freed and that they were planning to provide bond for everybody. They said that they had found out most people were being charged with obstructing a roadway and that the bond should be about $250.
I asked the other inmates for their attention for a moment, then explained to them who the National Lawyers Guild was and what was going on. Everyone was very appreciative just to have information and to know that people were actually out there aware of what was going on and working on the case.
Do I wish there was a conservative, pro-liberty legal group out there that I could’ve called? You’re darn right I do, but there was no such group involved in what was going on in Baton Rouge.
I’ll also mention that when my friend and colleague Brandon Darby went to pay my $250 bond hours later, he found out that the NLG had already paid it. Had simply paid everybody’s bond. Breitbart News will be sending the National Lawyers Guild a check for $250 to reimburse them, but I appreciate the gesture and consistency, covering my bond, even though they knew I was a harsh critic of theirs.
This dialogue with the Lawyers Guild continued over the next several hours, as they took the names and contact information of everyone who has been arrested and continue to update us with information.
Lee Stranahan: My Weekend Incarceration in a Baton Rouge Prison
Not sure of how many armed Blacks they shot but I'm sure they made it appear they were armed.......
Over at Rawstory, they’ve got an article detailing eight times the police have faced off with armed suspects and the suspects lived to … fight another day.
Eight times. So you know that means they’re white, right?
We’re talking pointing guns, and actually shooting guns—sometimes while wearing body armor—at cops and these suspects actually make it out of the encounter alive. Imagine that.
Here’s a video of one of those good folks in the act of retrieving and pointing his gun at the cops down in San Diego, California. The police shoot him, he falls, then—get this—“for more than a half hour police try to convince him to move away from the gun.”
Now that’s white privilege.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_FkzbTf-KM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFzs0bwhPw
also this
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/when-will-they-shoot/
The 2012 data reports that for “police and sheriff’s patrol officers,” the Fatal Injury Rate — that is, the “number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers” — was 15.0.
Here are some occupations with higher fatality rates than being a cop:
Logging workers: 129.9
Fishers and related fishing workers: 120.8
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: 54.3
Roofers: 42.2
Structural iron and steel workers: 37.0
Refuse and recyclable material collectors: 32.3
Drivers/sales workers and truck drivers: 24.3
Electrical power-line installers and repairers: 23.9
Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers: 22.8
Construction laborers: 17.8
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 16.2
Maintenance and repairs workers, general: 15.7
And for good measure, some more that approach the allegedly terrifying risks of being a police officer:
First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers: 14.7
Grounds maintenance workers: 14.2
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers: 13.0
While being a cop might not be all that dangerous, being in the presence of law enforcement certainly is. In 2012, there were a minimum of 410 people killed by police, and that includes only those voluntarily reported to the FBI under the creepy category of “justifiable homicide.” Nobody keeps full and accurate statistics, and the real number is probably closer to 1000.
Interesting that even a right-wing critic appreciates the work of a group that exists to protect the civil rights of citizens.
Pretty refreshing. Most right-wingers appreciate the work of a group that exists to abuse the civil rights of citizens.
you moron, my link shows stats from 2012 per 100,000. yours is showing data from 2014 total
looking at the 2014 per 100,000 stats Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2014
it's just confirming my link.
