A Cop Is Killed Every 58 Hours

[Geee]

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If you’ve been watching cable news, reading Hollywood celebrities’ tweets, and listening to race-hustling opportunists, you might think that every police officer in America has a finger on the trigger, hunting for any excuse to gun down defenseless youths.

 

This hysterical nonsense must be stopped.

 

The Cirque du Cop-Bashing, with Al Sharpton as ringmaster, is working overtime to exploit the deadly incident in Ferguson, Mo. That means stoking anti–law enforcement fires at all costs.

 

Are there bad cops? Yes. Does the police state go overboard sometimes? Yes. Do the demagogues decrying systemic racism and braying about “assassinations” know what happened when teenager Mike Brown was tragically shot and killed last week? No.

Here’s a reality check. While narcissistic liberal journalists and college kids are all posting “hands up” selfies in hipster solidarity with Ferguson protesters, it’s law-enforcement officers who risk their lives in “war zones” every day across the country.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Opportunism knocks in Missouri

Paul Mirengoff

August 14, 2014

 

Add Rand Pauls name to the list of opportunists seeking to exploit for political purposes the tragic shooting of young Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The race-hustlers populate the list, of course. So does President Obama, who sees a topic in his supposed wheelhouse (but in reality a local matter) through which he can distract attention from his disastrous foreign policy.

 

Writing in Time Magazine, Paul sees the opportunity to score libertarian points while showing sympathy for the black community, to which he has been pandering for some time. Lets start with the race pandering.

 

Paul uses the occasion of the Brown tragedy to say that given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. But Paul makes no attempt to show that the disparities in question presumably pertaining to conviction rates are the result of government targeting, as opposed to disparities in the commission of crimes. Blacks may feel targeted, but U.S. Senators shouldnt lend credibility to that feeling by disparaging our justice system unless they provide meaningful analysis to back it up.

 

(snip)

 

His main focus is, though, is not on race but on police militarization. Theres plenty of room for legitimate debate about this subject. Paul, however, contributes little of substance.

 

He writes:

 

Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armieswhere police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement. . . usually done in the name of fighting the war on drugs or terrorism.

(Snip)