We have heard a lot lately about tensions between the police and the communities that they serve, and the urgent need to reduce them. Here’s an easy first step: Stop lying about the cops.
The “national conversation” about race and policing we’ve been having ever since Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., last summer has been based on lies. The lie that Officer Wilson shot Brown while he had his hands up and was pleading “Don’t shoot.” The lie that New York City policemen targeted Eric Garner for a violent arrest because he was black. The lie, peddled especially by the progressive prince of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio, that the police are racist.
These are the lies that fuel hatred for the police, because if the police routinely execute black men in cold blood and serve a thoroughly racist system, they deserve to be hated. They should be the subject of nightly protests. They should be showered with obloquy. They should be harried by Attorney General Eric Holder. They should be considered a stain on the national conscience to be extricated at all costs.
This is the line of reasoning that leads to protesters chanting: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”
His rote praise of the police notwithstanding, especially now that he is under so much political pressure after the murders of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, Mayor de Blasio is deeply invested in this smear. It is why he has made career anti-police agitator Al Sharpton practically deputy police commissioner. It is why he considers the police a clear and present danger to his biracial son, Dante. It is why he said the tragic death of Eric Garner in police custody was the product of “centuries of racism.”
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Body Cameras on the officers will help to rebuild the trust as they will know they are under constant supervision.....hopefully the digital video will be releasable under FOIA so the public will get to see the good and the bad!
ReplyDeleteif the cops turn them on and they are 'working'.
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight, when you have full video of the officers doing illegal actions and against the will of the people and ever word and the like is on that video, we are lying about cops?
ReplyDeleteGo f yourself...
People are tired of being abused, beat, shot or anything else cops do these days... they hate the corrupt state and the court system in which cops can do what ever they want with out getting in trouble...
WHY, why is it OK for the officers to get the right to go home safe and us citizens who pay their salaries to protect us, don't?
These cops know very damn well what the job entitles, and what can or could happen the job any given day and guess what, THEY STILL CHOOSE TO DO THE JOB...
If law enforcement wants respect, it must stop its thievery of citizens on the highways for so-called speeding violations.....It has not been about safety....Its all about revenue scamming...They create more safety hazards than they prevent...
ReplyDeleteand now if cops are ignorant of the law they wrongly enforce, it is ok and permissible in a court of law??!
ReplyDeleteI was always told ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it seems it is a valid excuse if you are a cop and don't know what you are doing.
And they can't understand why so many people resent them? They get away with so many actions that either one of us would receive a prison sentence and then think they should be loved and viewed as gods? Hardly.
Get back to the basics of law enforcement and stop watching those cop hero movies you think are true.
We need GOOD cops. Too many bad cops have turned most people against you. Stop covering for them and police the police.
Civilian review boards for cops.
ReplyDeleteHonesty and integrity start at the top. When you have a police chief and administration who will lie for one another what is stopping the officers from doing it?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHonesty and integrity start at the top. When you have a police chief and administration who will lie for one another what is stopping the officers from doing it?
December 30, 2014 at 5:09 PM
Personal ethics, morals, integrity, a proper sense of right and wrong, justice.
They DO NOT have to follow illegal orders. Saying it is their job is not right and will not protect them when the showdown finally arrives.
There are bad eggs in EVERY profession. Help the good cops weed out the abusers by reporting bad behavior.
ReplyDeleteThis is where leadership is required, to much politics. Sheriff office should be appointed not elected. SPD is just poor leadership because ireiton is micro managing and should be allowed to influence the chief at all.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThis is where leadership is required, to much politics. Sheriff office should be appointed not elected. SPD is just poor leadership because ireiton is micro managing and should be allowed to influence the chief at all.
December 30, 2014 at 6:35 PM
NO ONE should be appointed. Everyone should be elected and held accountable. If they don't do their job that they were elected to do, they can be fired by the people.
People who are appointed can only be fired by the one who appointed him. We have too much of that now.
We need less government, not more. We need less authority over us, not more.
We need more freedoms, not less.