War On Cops
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It's worth pointing out that in 2016, year-to-date officer fatalities via shooting only are up 44 percent over last year, according to the numbers compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial Fund.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-under-obama-than-they-have-been-in-decades/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-under-obama-than-they-have-been-in-decades/
Obama to cut short European trip after 'vicious' attacks on Dallas police
Obama to cut short European trip after 'vicious' attacks on Dallas police
never let a good crisis go to waste
Obama to cut short European trip after 'vicious' attacks on Dallas police
never let a good crisis go to waste
TBones please. Real facts don't help the cause........
Police are safer under Obama than they have been in decades - Chicago Tribune
Maybe they are safer because legit fire arms ownership is at record levels
there are sheriffs who have told their constituencies they should all get a gun
"Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybe...n-sales-soar-gun-crimes-plummet/#6a0c5f857de9
there are sheriffs who have told their constituencies they should all get a gun
"Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybe...n-sales-soar-gun-crimes-plummet/#6a0c5f857de9
Breakdown Of US Citizens Killed By Cops In 2016
In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic from Statista shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group.
What’s also disturbing is that according to the data compiled by the Washington Post a big proportion of those killed obviously showed signs of mental illness. Of the 509 killed this year at least 124 were thought to be suffering from such conditions.
Many of those killed carried guns according to police records. In at least 22 cases officers mistook toy guns for the real thing.
Breakdown Of US Citizens Killed By Cops In 2016 | Zero Hedge
Is anybody really surprised that cops are being shot when they shoot citizens with impunity?
In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic from Statista shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group.
What’s also disturbing is that according to the data compiled by the Washington Post a big proportion of those killed obviously showed signs of mental illness. Of the 509 killed this year at least 124 were thought to be suffering from such conditions.
Many of those killed carried guns according to police records. In at least 22 cases officers mistook toy guns for the real thing.
Breakdown Of US Citizens Killed By Cops In 2016 | Zero Hedge
Is anybody really surprised that cops are being shot when they shoot citizens with impunity?
Armor vests can only save lives when they are actually worn. Data from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics indicate that an increasing percentage of police departments have instituted “mandatory
wear” policies
While there is no such thing as a totally bulletproof vest, research has shown that armor vests do
save lives. The risk of dying from a gunshot wound to the torso is 3.4 times higher for law
enforcement officers who do not wear armor vests.
Between FY1999 and FY2012, annual appropriations for the program
generally ranged been between $25 million and $30 million. However, over the past four fiscal
years, annual appropriations for the program were less than $23 million
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43544.pdf
Gee...If one actually looks into things though it looks more and more like everything else positive accredited to OBAMA
pure BS
you know...
like his statement that the world is safer now then it's ever been...
when it sure as EFFE ain't
PS
After all Obama is the one who gave his Cartel friends in the free trade zone full auto weapons, which have been shown to have killed American police, through fast and furious, with his AG at the time Eric (should be richard) Holder.
Statistics indicate that an increasing percentage of police departments have instituted “mandatory
wear” policies
While there is no such thing as a totally bulletproof vest, research has shown that armor vests do
save lives. The risk of dying from a gunshot wound to the torso is 3.4 times higher for law
enforcement officers who do not wear armor vests.
Between FY1999 and FY2012, annual appropriations for the program
generally ranged been between $25 million and $30 million. However, over the past four fiscal
years, annual appropriations for the program were less than $23 million
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43544.pdf
Gee...If one actually looks into things though it looks more and more like everything else positive accredited to OBAMA
pure BS
you know...
like his statement that the world is safer now then it's ever been...
when it sure as EFFE ain't
PS
After all Obama is the one who gave his Cartel friends in the free trade zone full auto weapons, which have been shown to have killed American police, through fast and furious, with his AG at the time Eric (should be richard) Holder.
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Obama still has a few more months to institute Sharia law, take yer guns, and send white people to FEMA camps. That would probably lead to more police fatalities.
In today's world everything revolves around the heroes that will protect us all.. police are at the top of that list. tabloid type new reporting telling us how dangerous there job is,is shoved down our throats . even when ther rate of deaths have gone down alot..This let the point blank murder os people by the police in the states with no legal recourse with nothing but a slap on the wrist.. The worm has turned and the mentally unstable people with their guns are fighting back.
what is really funny sort of
or sad, depending...
they just killed a police shooter with a robot bomber
so all the second amendment rights re fire arms are now moot
the government is laughing at how the taxes from the gun sales funded the robots that make them useless aginst a government that has robot bombers
so some police fatality numbers will drop
just like the people they bomb
or sad, depending...
they just killed a police shooter with a robot bomber
so all the second amendment rights re fire arms are now moot
the government is laughing at how the taxes from the gun sales funded the robots that make them useless aginst a government that has robot bombers
so some police fatality numbers will drop
just like the people they bomb
Why do govt administrations who insist on drug testing never include themselves? They're the ones that make the big decision. They're the ones whose decisions and legislation have an everyday effect on business and industry, various services, and the average Joe, among other things. I don't know about anyone else, but personally I'd like to make sure that those who make decisions and create legislation are doing so without their brains being addled by drugs or alcohol.
Damon right! The only valid bases for government decisions are demagoguery and cowardice!
I think you missed the point. It had to do with cops being upset about unwarranted search and seizure and their contention that it was against their constitutional rights.
At The Atlantic, Julian E. Zelizer writes—Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968?
When questions over race and policing were front and center in a national debate in 1968, the federal government failed to take the steps necessary to make any changes. The government understood how institutional racism was playing out in the cities and how they exploded into violence, but the electorate instead was seduced by Richard Nixon’s calls for law and order, as well as an urban crackdown, leaving the problems of institutional racism untouched. Rather than deal with the way that racism was inscribed into American institutions, including the criminal-justice system, the government focused on building a massive carceral state, militarizing police forces, criminalizing small offenses, and living through repeated moments of racial conflict exploding into violence.
In July 1967, during the aftermath of the devastating race riots in Detroit, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey—each of which started after incidents of police brutality against African Americans—President Lyndon Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known popularly as the Kerner Commission (for the chairman, Otto Kerner), to examine the roots of the violence. The rioting had taken place at a politically fraught time for Johnson. Southern Democrats and Republicans were leading a resurgence of the conservative coalition following the midterm elections of 1966. The disastrous Vietnam War had consumed all of the president’s remaining political capital, and conservatives on Capitol Hill were forcing him to make a decision between spending for guns or butter. Meanwhile, the civil-rights crusade had splintered, with the Black Power movement insisting that activists needed to take a bolder stand on issues like housing discrimination, policing, and unemployment.
Desperate to do something, but not in a position to do much more than defend his existing accomplishments, Johnson created the high-profile commission. The president stacked the commission with established political figures who were moderate and committed to the existing economic and political system. He wanted them to demonstrate to the public that the administration took the problems seriously—but he also wanted them to avoid recommendations that would embarrass him. Johnson was deeply cognizant of the economic and racial problems afflicting cities, but he felt that there was not much more he could do politically at that moment in time.
Which is why the first version of the report was killed.
“Segregation and poverty,” the report said, “have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” The riots in Newark and Detroit, the report continued, “were not caused by, nor were they the consequences of, any organized plan or ‘conspiracy.’” The rioters were educated and had been employed in recent years; most of them were furious about facing constant discrimination when seeking new employment, trying to find a place to live, or, worst of all, interacting with hostile law-enforcement officials.
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Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968 and Ignoring Structural Racism? - The Atlantic
When questions over race and policing were front and center in a national debate in 1968, the federal government failed to take the steps necessary to make any changes. The government understood how institutional racism was playing out in the cities and how they exploded into violence, but the electorate instead was seduced by Richard Nixon’s calls for law and order, as well as an urban crackdown, leaving the problems of institutional racism untouched. Rather than deal with the way that racism was inscribed into American institutions, including the criminal-justice system, the government focused on building a massive carceral state, militarizing police forces, criminalizing small offenses, and living through repeated moments of racial conflict exploding into violence.
In July 1967, during the aftermath of the devastating race riots in Detroit, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey—each of which started after incidents of police brutality against African Americans—President Lyndon Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known popularly as the Kerner Commission (for the chairman, Otto Kerner), to examine the roots of the violence. The rioting had taken place at a politically fraught time for Johnson. Southern Democrats and Republicans were leading a resurgence of the conservative coalition following the midterm elections of 1966. The disastrous Vietnam War had consumed all of the president’s remaining political capital, and conservatives on Capitol Hill were forcing him to make a decision between spending for guns or butter. Meanwhile, the civil-rights crusade had splintered, with the Black Power movement insisting that activists needed to take a bolder stand on issues like housing discrimination, policing, and unemployment.
Desperate to do something, but not in a position to do much more than defend his existing accomplishments, Johnson created the high-profile commission. The president stacked the commission with established political figures who were moderate and committed to the existing economic and political system. He wanted them to demonstrate to the public that the administration took the problems seriously—but he also wanted them to avoid recommendations that would embarrass him. Johnson was deeply cognizant of the economic and racial problems afflicting cities, but he felt that there was not much more he could do politically at that moment in time.
Which is why the first version of the report was killed.
“Segregation and poverty,” the report said, “have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” The riots in Newark and Detroit, the report continued, “were not caused by, nor were they the consequences of, any organized plan or ‘conspiracy.’” The rioters were educated and had been employed in recent years; most of them were furious about facing constant discrimination when seeking new employment, trying to find a place to live, or, worst of all, interacting with hostile law-enforcement officials.
more
Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968 and Ignoring Structural Racism? - The Atlantic