Defund the police

[Beetlegeuse]

Proof yet again, demoncrats are dumber than wooden watches.

[Black] Harvard professor’s research: ‘Defunding the police could cost thousands of black lives’

Journalists show an ‘absolute refusal to grapple with the data’

Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a [black] Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives.

“Defunding the police is not a solution and could cost thousands of black lives,” Roland Fryer told The College Fix in an interview about his latest research.

“I think the streets are talking and we should listen. People are frustrated,” he continued in the email. He sympathizes with frustration at “big racial differences” in educational achievement, life expectancy and “almost every part of life.”

The youngest African-American professor to receive tenure in Harvard history, Fryer uses a data-driven approach on fraught social issues.

He made waves four years ago with his on use-of-force incidents by race. It found that black suspects were less likely to be shot by police than white suspects...

... This spike in the crime rate occurred over the course of two years in the five cities where those deaths and viral incidents occurred: Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati, Tyisha Miller in Riverside, California, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

While the underlying cause of this dramatic spike is unknown, Fryer and Devi hypothesize that it is caused by a substantial decrease in proactive police activity.

For example, in Chicago “police-civilian interactions” dropped precipitously, decreasing 90 percent in the month after the investigation into why police shot McDonald “sixteen times in fifteen seconds while jaywalking.”..

... Our estimates suggest that investigating police departments after viral incidents of police violence is responsible for approximately 450 excess homicides per year. This is 2x the loss of life in the line of duty for the US Military in a year, 12.6x the annual loss of life due to school shootings, and 3x the loss of life due to lynchings between 1882 and 1901 – the most gruesome years...

...In the Manhattan Institute video, Fryer notes evidence that police have motivation to avoid viral infamy: video of a female police officer in Chicago refusing to fire as she is beaten. Officers have told him “‘I’m not going to be the next YouTube sensation,’” Fryer told Riley.

“If the price of policing increases, officers are rational to retreat,” the research paper concludes. “And, retreating disproportionately costs black lives.”....

[tarmyg]

Colonel Blimp here could always have read the study he is supposedly quoting but that might prove that he is as racist as his comments indicate. Feel free to read the actual paper instead of Joe Blows' blog disguised as news.

With all controls, blacks are 21 percent more likely than whites to be involved in an interaction with police in which at least a weapon is drawn and the difference is statistically significant

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[Beetlegeuse]

“Police reform” results in sharp increase in gun violence

... I thought the answer was pretty straightforward: The spike in shootings occurred right after the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit in response to nationwide calls for police reform.

But when I recently met with Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, he explained that the NYPD is still arresting plenty of illegal gun holders. The problem, he said, is that very few of these criminals are actually being punished by New York’s revolving-door court system.

According to the NYPD, there are 2,152 individuals with open gun arrests between Jan. 1, 2019, and June 29, 2020. Of those individuals, 347 have prior gun arrests, 310 were on either probation or parole, 15 were arrested for shootings after their prior gun arrest, and 89 are wanted for or are suspects in shootings. When they aren’t firing their weapons, they are at the scene bearing witness to shootings, with 147 of these individuals currently sought as witnesses, or being shot themselves, with 29 falling victim to gun violence.

But 1,937 of these individuals are no longer in custody....

[Godzilla8]

Cops are racist because they only shoot black folk.

Personally, I would shoot him because of that outfit. The socks and the sandals alone are an offense.

[SampsonandDelilah]

Personally, I would shoot him because of that outfit. The socks and the sandals alone are an offense.

Jesus, she waited way to long to shoot him. Why didn’t the guy in the white truck just hammer him with his bumper. Shocked that no one came to her defense. People are gutless, I would’ve hit that fucker doing 30 with my truck. Glad she shot his ass and you’re right...socks and sandals should be punishable by death.

[Godzilla8]

Jesus, she waited way to long to shoot him. Why didn’t the guy in the white truck just hammer him with his bumper. Shocked that no one came to her defense. People are gutless, I would’ve hit that fucker doing 30 with my truck. Glad she shot his ass and you’re right...socks and sandals should be punishable by death.

LMAO! Sorry, I’m new here, but if this is what this forum is like; I am a happy camper!

[SampsonandDelilah]

LMAO! Sorry, I’m new here, but if this is what this forum is like; I am a happy camper!

Welcome brother!

You should introduce yourself...

https://forums.steroid.com/new-members-male-female/

[Godzilla8]

Welcome brother!

You should introduce yourself...

https://forums.steroid.com/new-members-male-female/

Thank you Samson and Delilah!

[bomb_r2]

“Police reform” results in sharp increase in gun violence

... I thought the answer was pretty straightforward: The spike in shootings occurred right after the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit in response to nationwide calls for police reform.

But when I recently met with Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, he explained that the NYPD is still arresting plenty of illegal gun holders. The problem, he said, is that very few of these criminals are actually being punished by New York’s revolving-door court system.

According to the NYPD, there are 2,152 individuals with open gun arrests between Jan. 1, 2019, and June 29, 2020. Of those individuals, 347 have prior gun arrests, 310 were on either probation or parole, 15 were arrested for shootings after their prior gun arrest, and 89 are wanted for or are suspects in shootings. When they aren’t firing their weapons, they are at the scene bearing witness to shootings, with 147 of these individuals currently sought as witnesses, or being shot themselves, with 29 falling victim to gun violence.

But 1,937 of these individuals are no longer in custody....

Shall not be infringed upon. 2A

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[Beetlegeuse]

Mission Accomplished.

In the same 25 years, America's population has increased by 20%.

America Has Fewest Cops in a Quarter Century, Data Find

... [P]olice employment rates began to crater amid the Great Recession, as state and local austerity kicked in. They took another nosedive beginning in 2016, the year after the first round of police protests drove public confidence in cops to its lowest level to date.

These two events have contributed to deeper demographic and labor market shifts, with many departments seeing a wave of retirements, according to a 2018 report from the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonpartisan organization of police chiefs. At the same time, the relatively meager wages of policing and increasing legal and social threats to the job are pushing away young people who might otherwise take up the badge.

"A lot of forces have converged over the last decade or so to make policing a much less attractive line of work," Rafael Mangual, deputy director of legal policy at the Manhattan Institute, told the Washington Free Beacon.

Mangual noted that in addition to low pay, police are seeing an uptick in violent deaths as well as an increase in "legal risk": "We've seen a new push for ‘accountability' that often comes in the form of officers being laid off or prosecuted or sued, and a very robust public discussion of how to expand the scope of legal liability for police officers."

Those trends are likely to only grow more pronounced in the next several years. Nationwide protests against the police have prompted a wave of retirements among both chiefs and the rank and file, with NYPD retirements up 75 percent compared with 2019. A number of large cities across the country—including New York, Austin, Portland, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.—have responded to these protests by slashing police budgets by up to a third, meaning fewer resources for hiring and training...

... Overwhelming empirical evidence supports the idea that cops have a deterrent effect on day-to-day crime and that therefore their reduced manpower could lead to a spike in crime. In New York, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has overseen the slashing of the force, shootings in the city have nearly doubled 2019 figures. That increase in shootings may be linked to the manpower demands of ongoing mass protests—a troubling sign for a world that will soon see fewer cops on the beat.

[scotty51312]

Its funny, the same political groups that are screaming defund the police, are the same groups 2 years ago that were saying you dont' need guns the police will protect you.
I worked as military law enforcement back around 2001 and can tell you that the rules and definition of deadly force haven't changed in my lifetime. Some cops use unnecessary force and they should be absolutely prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

What is ridiculous is people protesting because the cops shoot back at people who shoot at them.

[Test Monsterone]

Its funny, the same political groups that are screaming defund the police, are the same groups 2 years ago that were saying you dont' need guns the police will protect you.
I worked as military law enforcement back around 2001 and can tell you that the rules and definition of deadly force haven't changed in my lifetime. Some cops use unnecessary force and they should be absolutely prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

What is ridiculous is people protesting because the cops shoot back at people who shoot at them.

Who is protesting that cops should not defend themselves when fired at?

[scotty51312]

Who is protesting that cops should not defend themselves when fired at?

Everyone that is protesting the outcome of the grand jury's decision about Briona Taylor. While her death was tragic, her boyfriend admits to firing first, and shot a cop.
The 2 cops in the doorway did exactly what they're supposed to do. Returned fire.
The 3rd cop who was a complete coward ran around the side of the house and started firing with no possible way of knowing what he was shooting at, while he was wonton, he was not guilty of murder and should face the appropriate charges and will be open to civil suits in the future.

[Test Monsterone]

Everyone that is protesting the outcome of the grand jury's decision about Briona Taylor. While her death was tragic, her boyfriend admits to firing first, and shot a cop.
The 2 cops in the doorway did exactly what they're supposed to do. Returned fire.
The 3rd cop who was a complete coward ran around the side of the house and started firing with no possible way of knowing what he was shooting at, while he was wonton, he was not guilty of murder and should face the appropriate charges and will be open to civil suits in the future.

No rational person would defend the notion that a police officer should not fire back when fired upon. It appears that the details are less clear, but what is clear is that the police officers were not in uniform, and Breona’s boyfriend shot what he said was a warning shot, which then prompted the police officers to shoot back. I think this was a misunderstanding from both sides. There were no charges against the boyfriend, so obviously they didn’t think he was intentionally firing at police officers, and more than likely fired out of fear or self-defense. Unfortunately a sad situation, but I don’t think the officers are at fault for shooting back necessarily. I do think some officers are too trigger friendly, so this may be what the protesters are protesting.

[Beetlegeuse]

SURPRISE! ... not

Disaster: 118 Police Officers Quit or Retire from Seattle Police Dept. in 2020

The Seattle Police Department has been crippled by officers retiring and quitting the force as the city’s politicos turn against the department.

According to a report at Fox News, 118 officers have left the city’s police department just this year leaving the agency seriously undermanned.

“Your 911 call for help will go unanswered for a significant amount of time,” Seattle Police Officer Guild President Mike Solan told the Jason Rantz Show on Seattle’s KTTH, Fox noted.

Those who quit, though, are nothing compared to the massive cuts the city is preparing to implement.

[Beetlegeuse]

‘No Help Is Coming Any Time Soon’: NYPD’s Retirement Rate Soars, Union President Lambasts De Blasio’s ‘Lunacy’

Cops in New York continue to call it quits.

Since the riots began months ago and law enforcement was told to stand down…and as some in government began their “Defund the Police” campaigns…men and women in blue have been retiring in droves.

That’s especially true in New York City, and a report by Fox News highlights the migration of LEOs from on-the-job to out-of-the-industry.

As relayed Saturday, the nation’s largest police force continues to suffer shrinkage.

In a recent email to Fox, the NYPD admitted that, as of October 6th, 2,385 officers had submitted for retirement.

That number dwarfs stats one year ago, to the tune of an 87% increase.

And just since the 6th, 372 more have resigned.

The numbers were similarly stunning before this month: From March 26th to October 5th, 1,838 cops retired. Compare that to last year’s 999 — a leap of 84%.

It’s not difficult to find factors.

In a statement to FNC, NYPD union President Patrick J. Lynch held no prisoners:

“[T]hanks to the City Council and Mayor’s ‘Defund the Police’ lunacy, no help is coming any time soon. Our elected leaders need to be held responsible for the dangerous path they’ve chosen.”

They’ve got their work cut out for them. And it isn’t just the rank-and-file leaving:

One of the most prominent losses was Chief of Patrol Fausto Pichardo, who oversees the “largest and most visible” unit within the NYPD — the Patrol Services Bureau.

Pichardo, the NYPD’s first Dominican chief of patrol, filed for retirement Tuesday after more than two decades on the job. He has held the position since Dec. 5, 2019.

According to a source speaking to the New York Post, Fausto’s stepping down may have involved the personal behavior of the mayor.

From Fox:

[S]ources told the Post that de Blasio, a Democrat, berated Pichardo for missing a phone call following an hours-long shift responding to recent unrest in Brooklyn, where crowds including Orthodox Jews protested against state coronavirus restrictions.

De Blasio “routinely loses his s–t about missed phone calls,” a source told the Post, which provided multiple examples of the mayor’s controlling behavior toward Pichardo.

“This is nothing but inappropriate meddling from a person who doesn’t know anything about patrol — even though he has been here for seven years,” the source added.

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York had a thing or two to say about it:



Unsurprisingly, the five boroughs’ badged are no fans of the Democratic Party. As I covered in August, going completely against convention, the NYPD officially endorsed a presidential candidate: Donald J. Trump.

It probably didn’t help Dems that de Blasio cut the city’s cop budget by more than $1 billion.

Of course, if everyone retires, they won’t need any funds.

#Fixed.

And according to some, it seems, America will be all the safer for it.

Meanwhile, the numbers don’t appear to back that up.

Union President Patrick pointed out:

“This is the highest attrition rate we have seen in over a decade, during a time we are battling enormous spikes in shootings and murders.”

Yeah — seems worse.

[The Deadlifting Dog]

Trump consistently lies and says Biden wants to defund the police.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jo...defund-police/



Please remember...
These turbulent times are happening during Trump's reign of terror.

[Beetlegeuse]

'It's an absolute joke:' Seattle officers leave scathing responses in exit interviews

SEATTLE -- Seattle Police officers who are leaving the department have given scathing responses during their exit interviews.

KOMO News obtained the exit interviews, which blamed city leadership, to riots and low morale for leaving the department.

One retiring patrol sergeant who had been on the force for more than 20 years said, "I refuse to work for this socialist city council and their political agenda. This agenda sacrifices the health and well-being of the officers and ultimately will destroy the fabric of this once fine city.”

When asked: “What factors had a negative effect on morale in the department?”

One officer whose job is up in the air said, “The council wanting to defund us and gaining ground doing it. Rioters not being charged even when they assault officers.”

Another patrol officer from the East Precinct who was resigning after 6-10 years of service offered this explanation for leaving the department: “Current hostile work environment. In a precinct that is under civil unrest by a small group that is constantly committing multiple felonies and attempting to murder peace officers.”

When followed up with the question: “What did you enjoy least about working at SPD?”

The officer said, “I enjoyed almost every aspect of working with Seattle PD itself. The one thing that I enjoyed the least was the handling of the last three months of riots.”

Jim Fuda, Crimestoppers Director of Law Enforcement Services which works with SPD, says the responses point to a hostile and non-supportive work environment for officers.

“It’s ridiculous," Fuda said. "Just when you think it can’t get more inane, it does."

In response to the question: “Would you like to work for SPD again in the future?”

Some said they’re open to the opportunity if thing change, “drastically.”

One canine officer who’s resigning after more than 11 years said, “I highly doubt it. You could pay me twice what you’re paying me now and I would not work for Seattle under this current political mayhem, Marxist collaborations and lack of government and police leadership.”

“It’s an absolute joke and a travesty for the rest of the citizens here in this city, this once beautiful city,” said Fuda. “Our police department is there to protect all of us and because of the cutbacks and the retirements, who’s going to protect our public safety?" (emphasis added)

According to the exit interviews, the some of the SPD officers are leaving for departments like Everett, Des Moines, Kennewick and the Pierce County Sheriff's Department -- places they said the feel like they will get more support.

[Beetlegeuse]

Aurora, Colorado residents figure out that the police aren’t protecting them anymore

Jazz Shaw
Posted at 9:21 am on October 19, 2020

We’ve already seen two instances where the police in Aurora, Colorado have “stood down” when facing violent felons. The first incident involved a guy with a lengthy rap sheet who was exposing himself to young girls, destroying property, and threatening harm to the residents of an apartment complex. The cops stood down twice in two days rather than taking him into custody. The more recent incident involved a child abuse suspect with multiple warrants and who was on parole, who barricaded himself inside his home with one of his children and some firearms. The cops walked away that time also and the perpetrator is still on the loose.

After that discouraging encounter, I pondered whether people would begin to notice the fact that the men and women in blue who are supposed to be protecting and serving don’t seem to be doing as much of either these days. I also noted that their new Chief of Police had publicly announced an agenda of having fewer “conflicts” with suspects where her cops might have to use force against a dangerous criminal. As it turns out, some of the locals have indeed noticed this pattern and they’re telling reporters about it. (CBS4 Denver)

When Aurora City Councilman Dave Gruber sat down for an interview with CBS4, he said he had just received an email from one of his constituents.

“Please deal with crime. I don’t feel safe in Aurora anymore,” Gruber quoted the email as saying.

Indeed, Aurora has seen a significant rise in violent crime. When CBS4 compared the first nine months of 2020 to the same period in 2019, it showed significant increases in major violent crimes.

So just how bad has it gotten in Aurora? As of the end of the last reporting period, murders were up 72.2% over the same period last year. Armed assaults were up 34.3% and robberies were up 31%. All major violent crime categories were up 24.4% and Grand Theft Auto (not the video game) was up 53.3% from last year, while burglaries are up 13.9%. I don’t care what you try to ascribe this to. It’s far more than a statistical blip.

Here’s the kicker that ties into what I mentioned above about the new Chief of Police. Physical arrests of suspects are down 44.6% from 2019. In other words, crime in virtually every category is going up but the police are arresting barely half as many people. Can that really just be a coincidence?

The City Councilman that CBS4 spoke to is blaming the rising crime on a number of factors.

“Crime across the board is going up. We’re having a lot of problems,” said Gruber. He believes there are a number of factors including increased gang violence, major car theft rings, less respect for police and a police force that is more reluctant to go “hands-on.”

The Councilman seems to be dancing around the subject a bit here. He’s blaming “less respect for the police” as well as cops who are “more reluctant to go hands-on.” I would argue that the two factors are completely interrelated. Do you really believe that the cops decided to be less interactive on their own? And when they aren’t going after the suspects as much, the criminals notice and feel freer to run wild. The head of the local police union was less subtle about it.

Union President Judy Lutkin blamed emboldened criminals, the passage of a recent Senate Bill that restricted the arrest tactics cops can use, and “social justice warrior police leadership.” That last point is obviously a shot across the bow at Chief Wilson, who put most of these new rules in place. But the Police Chief serves at the pleasure of the Mayor and the City Council. If concerned citizens have reached the point where they are telling their elected leaders that they literally “no longer feel safe,” then isn’t it time to dial back most of this social justice nonsense and get a Police Chief who actually wants to arrest criminals? If not, perhaps it’s time for the citizens of Aurora to elect some leaders with a clue.

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-sha...cting-anymore/

[Beetlegeuse]

Slandering the Police

The Left is smearing the cops just like they once smeared our troops.

By Scott Swett
October 22, 2020

Sixteen years ago, a group of military veterans turned a presidential campaign upside down.

The Democratic Party had selected then-senator John Kerry as its nominee. His party positioned him as a war hero, backed with a glowing campaign biography by historian Douglas Brinkley. Inaccuracies in Brinkley’s account attracted the attention of Navy veterans who had served with Kerry in Vietnam. They formed a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and began to investigate and document Kerry’s activities during and after the war. They quickly found and publicized evidence that undercut Kerry’s mythology, including his oft-repeated claim that he had been illegally ordered by the Nixon Administration to fight clandestine battles in Cambodia.

But the real focus of the veterans was Kerry’s work as spokesman for the anti-military group Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The Swift Vets noted that Kerry and the VVAW “worked closely with America’s wartime enemies, arranged multiple meetings with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong leadership, and consistently supported their positions. Kerry and his radical comrades also played a key role in defining the false, damaging image of Vietnam veterans as psychologically disabled alcoholics and addicts, haunted by the crimes they had been forced to commit in a ‘racist’ war.” John Kerry, the Swift Vets said, was unfit for command.

The message that John Kerry should not serve as Commander in Chief after smearing American troops as mass murderers resonated with the public. The leftist media tried to ignore Kerry’s veteran opponents at first, then labeled their charges as “unsubstantiated” or “discredited.” In the end none of it worked. The Swift Vets and their POW allies were the key to Kerry’s defeat.

After the Swift Vets went home, the larger pro-military movement they had inspired continued. Leftist efforts to recreate the anti-military sentiment of the Vietnam era using groups such as “Iraq Veterans Against the War” fell flat. Support and respect for the military had become the standard in America, with opposition now limited to fringe radicals and academics. Smearing the troops as baby killers had ceased to be an effective political strategy. After the election of Barack Obama, the Left gave up and shifted to attacking the military through infiltration. After 40 years, America’s most vicious anti-military disinformation campaign had finally been laid to rest.

Smearing the Troops

During the Vietnam War, leftist propagandists insisted that America was waging a racist, genocidal war against the Vietnamese people. Those who opposed the war were fighting for peace. In reality, the Left was working to undermine America’s ability to defend South Vietnam in full cooperation with its communist allies in North Vietnam and the Soviet Union.

To accomplish this goal, the Left accused American troops of routinely committing war crimes and portrayed them as unstable, traumatized drug addicts. This reduced public support for the war and for the military as an institution, weakening America’s ability to defend its interests. The peace treaty that ended American involvement in the war authorized the United States to respond to any violations by the communists, but the overwhelmingly leftist Congress elected in the wake of Richard Nixon’s resignation denied America’s former allies in South Vietnam not only military support and funding, but humanitarian aid as well.

Seeing that America had given up, the Vietnamese communists quickly launched the final invasion that conquered South Vietnam. Genocide throughout Southeast Asia followed. The success of this communist revolution was due in no small part to the Left’s successful disinformation campaign against our troops.

The damage to the reputation of the military lingered for decades. Many American soldiers returned home from the war to find they were reviled as baby-killers, and treated as pariahs by former friends. The image of the Vietnam veteran portrayed by the media and by Hollywood—murderous, filthy, addicted, and too psychologically damaged to cope with civilian life—became an archetype. Far too few people understood that this was disinformation rather than reality.

Smearing the Police

The death last spring of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer touched off a massive wave of activism based on the belief that racist white cops are routinely murdering black people. This has been used to justify nationwide violence, looting, arson, and destruction. Thousands of police officers have been injured, some seriously. Hundreds of statues and monuments were destroyed. There have been widespread demands to abolish or defund police departments, to pay trillions in racial reparations, and to change our very system of government.

There is significant evidence, however, that the claims of widespread police racism in America are untrue. In 2019, the only systematic, nationwide study of fatal police shootings by race found that white police officers are no more likely to shoot minorities than non-white officers.

The researchers catalogued every police shooting in the country beginning in 2015 and obtained the race, sex, and years of experience for every officer involved in each incident. They found that the best predictor of whether black or white citizens were shot was not the race of the officer, but the rate of crime committed by each racial group. One author wrote, “If you live in a county that has a lot of white people committing crimes, white people are more likely to be shot. If you live in a county that has a lot of black people committing crimes, black people are more likely to be shot.” Between 90 and 95 percent of the civilians who were shot by officers were actively attacking police or other citizens at the time, and about 90 percent were armed with a weapon.

Under pressure from leftist activists, the authors of the study “retracted” the research report after George Floyd’s death on the grounds that “misinterpretation of the findings that resulted from language used in the paper.” That, of course, is not the same thing as disavowing the findings themselves, but it served the useful purpose of hiding the study’s results from the public.

The Tactics of Disinformation

How was the public led to believe false claims about the military and the police? Social science research offers useful insights into the process that most people use to make decisions:

Reasoning is only a small part of forming opinions or judgments;
Judgments are often based on inadequate information;
Early and negative information have a disproportionately heavy impact;
Anecdotal, easy-to-remember information is also overly weighted.

Therefore, disinformation campaigns use simple, powerful, negative, emotional arguments that tell a story. Since people resist changing their minds about emotionally-loaded topics, this narrative must be spread quickly, before the facts have a chance to catch up to the claims.

The usual trigger for a political disinformation campaign is a violent event that fits the needs of its organizers, who then use all available resources to focus attention on its horror and injustice.

In most cases, the trigger event itself is falsely portrayed. For example, the wave of black church fires that launched a media storm in 1996 was a complete fabrication. Gay icon Matthew Shepard was murdered, but an in-depth investigation found that his killer was also gay or at least bisexual, eliminating homophobia as a likely motive. The deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were fairly clear-cut cases of self-defense. And, appearances to the contrary, it is likely that George Floyd died from a self-inflicted drug overdose rather than the actions of the police.

Accurate reporting isn’t the goal. The goal is to make people accept the narrative and act on it in useful ways. The key to making this work is expanding and shifting the blame for the event to the larger target group. That sequence—set the emotional hook, transfer anger and outrage to the target, and then mobilize supporters—is how propagandists leverage and cash in on their stories.

Once the campaign has persuaded a large number of people, the organizers offer ways to channel their powerful feelings of injustice into political action. At this point it is extremely difficult to counter the campaign with facts or reasoning. Its supporters see any disagreement as either an attempt to defend the obvious injustice of the trigger event, or as a personal attack. Few people are capable of changing their strongly-held, emotionally-driven beliefs based on mere evidence.

Then and Now

Just as leftists used disinformation to attack the U.S. military during and for decades after the Vietnam War, so now they are using disinformation to attack the police—physically, politically, legally, financially, and psychologically.

If these attacks are successful, the Left will be able to destabilize the American political system using crimes and violence with little legal interference. This requires “high cover” from well-placed officials: mayors, governors, and prosecutors who will support the attacks, place unreasonable restrictions on the police, and release arrested criminals back to the streets. Demonizing and undermining the police is an integral part of a larger strategy of using domestic terror to intimidate and silence ordinary American citizens.

The Vietnam era revolutionaries wanted to “bring the war home.” Their modern counterparts have at last succeeded. The Left calls for “unity” as it politicizes American pastimes such as professional sports, now transformed into leftist fundraising and propaganda centers, and demands “justice” as it dissolves the principle of equal justice under the law. These attacks extend far beyond the police. The ultimate goal is to destroy public support for America itself.

This time, we may not have 35 years to correct the problem.

https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/22/s...ng-the-police/

[Beetlegeuse]

Since Minneapolis defunded their police they've had a 40% increase in crime, including an 85% increase in homicides (SURPRISE!). More than 500 people shot already this year. And what police remain are resigning at more than twice the usual rate. So now they're un-defunding the police and hiring "outside" police because they don't have enough as is.

And citizens are suing the mayor and the city council for not abiding with the city charter.

Pay the stupid tax.

[Beetlegeuse]

What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

Dallas Asks State to Help Fight Spike in Crime after Cutting $7M from Cop’s Overtime

City of Dallas in response to a spike in violent crime. The governor responded to a request for assistance from the Dallas Police Department after city leaders cut the police overtime budget by $7 million.

“The rise in violent crime in the city of Dallas is unacceptable, and the Texas Department of Public Safety will assist the Dallas Police Department in their efforts to protect the community and reduce this surge in crime,” Governor Abbott said in a written statement. “Every Texan deserves to feel safe in their own community, and the State of Texas will continue to provide the city of Dallas with the resources they need to crack down on this heinous activity and protect Dallas residents.”

Governor Abbott responded to a request from the Dallas Police Department to provide direct support in reducing violent crime, the governor’s office reported. The Texas Department of Public Safety is sending multiple resources to help the city that is currently in the midst of a spike in violent crime. Those resources include DPS special agents, state troopers, and intelligence analysts. The additional manpower will be directed at helping support gang and drug enforcement operations....

[Beetlegeuse]

[Beetlegeuse]

Did America's Anti-Cop Movement Lead To Largest Homicide Increase In US History?

by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021 - 20:20

Did America's 'defund the police' movement result in the largest percentage increase in homicides in US history? Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "The War On Cops" makes a strong argument that it likely did.

In a Sunday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Mac Donald notes that 2020 'likely saw the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history,' noting that murder was up almost 37% across a sample of 57 large and medium-size cities. According to preliminary figures, "at least 2,000 more Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than 2019."

And while the establishment media is largely blaming the pandemic for the spike, Mac Donald says the chronology doesn't support that assertion - and President Biden's criminal-justice policies stand to exacerbate the ongoing crime wave while ignoring its causes.

The local murder increases in 2020 were startling: 95% in Milwaukee, 78% in Louisville, Ky., 74% in Seattle, 72% in Minneapolis, 62% in New Orleans, and 58% in Atlanta, according to data compiled by crime analyst Jeff Asher. Dozens of children, overwhelmingly black, were killed in drive-by shootings. They were slain in their beds, living rooms and strollers. They were struck down at barbecues, in their yards, in malls, in their parents’ cars, and at birthday parties. Fifty-five children were killed in Chicago in 2020, 17 in St. Louis, and 11 in Philadelphia. In South Los Angeles alone, 40 children were shot, some non-lethally, through September. -WSJ

The MSM, such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suggested that the increase is due to the "economic, civic and interpersonal stress" caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot similarly blamed pandemic-related "frustration, anger ... trauma and mental health challenges."

However, this doesn't square with the fact that crime actually fell during the first few months of the pandemic lockdowns - both domestically and abroad, only to reverse itself in May in the United States, "thanks to a surge in drive-by shootings."

On May 31 alone, 18 people were murdered in Chicago - the city's most violent day in 60 years according to Paul Cassell, a law professor at the University of Utah. Elsewhere, American cities saw 'similar spikes in mayhem, all tied to the street violence unleashed by the death of George Floyd," a black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis PD on May 25 after an officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes, while having fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system - and being COVID-positive - at the time of his death.

As Mac Donald writes, "The political and media response to Floyd’s death amplified the existing narrative that policing was lethally racist," adding "The ensuing riots received little condemnation from Democratic leaders and a weak response from the criminal-justice system."

Since Floyd's death, police have faced a 'poisonous environment,' having been shot in the head, firebombed, and assaulted with lethal projectiles. Those who attempt to provide aid in the field risk being pelted with rocks and bottles.

One Oakland, California officer who has arrested 'dozens of known murderers and gang members' told Mac Donald that he's scared for the first time, "not because the criminals are necessarily more violent, even though they are," but because if he has to use force on a suspect, he stands to lose his job, his liberty or his life. A "simple cost-benefit analysis" would suggest the safest course of action for officers is to simply recall to calls for service and collect a paycheck.

"All cops now understand this," the officer said.

One veteran Chicago detective said "Every day you have to decide whether to get out of your patrol car and do something or do nothing," adding that if anyone attempts actual police work, they may end up in jail or without a job if things go sideways.

"Proactive police work is dead," said Police Lt. Bob Kroll of Minneapolis, where police stops fell by more than 50% over the summer. Elsewhere, such as Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago and elsewhere, the number of police-civilian contacts have plummeted.

Meanwhile, anti-gang units and other specialty units across the country which got guns off the street were disbanded due to having a 'disparate impact on African-Americans,' while police chiefs and prosecutors alike have refused to enforce low-level 'quality-of-life' laws for the same reason.

As a result, "More gang members are carrying guns, since their chances of being stopped are slim. They are enthusiastically killing each other and innocent bystanders out of opportunism, not economic deprivation or existential angst."

Meanwhile, 2020's violence has only accelerated into the new year - with shootings in South Los Angeles jumping 742% in the first two weeks of the year, while Oakland homicides were up 500% and shootings up 126% through Jan 17. Murders in New York have jumped 42% and shooting victims 15% during the same period, while carjackings in Chicago are up 135% in Chicago.

On Jan. 16, a woman was pulled from her car in Aurora, Ill., and shot in the back by carjackers who had already stolen two vehicles earlier that day. Four other Chicago suburbs were hit that weekend. In Chicago proper, there have been 144 carjackings through Jan. 21, with 166 guns recovered. -WSJ

President Biden, of course, is fanning the anti-cop flames - arguing during the campaign without justification that African-Americans 'rightly feared that their loved ones could be killed by a cop every time they stepped outside.' Now, his administration's criminal-justice blueprint aims to get rid of racial disparities in law enforcement - which would eliminate much of law enforcement itself.

Read the rest of the op-ed here.

[Beetlegeuse]

Pay the stupid tax.

Portland cut police funding and got a 2,000% surge in murders

Now, it is flooded with gun violence, and the mayor is already backtracking from his support for the cuts.

Mayor Ted Wheeler has requested $2 million in emergency funding for the police department, pointing directly to the surge in gun violence. At this point last year, Portland had seen just one homicide. This year, that number is 20, with 208 shootings in the city so far.

Wheeler backed the Portland City Council’s decision to cut $15 million from the police budget last June, which included disbanding police units that investigate gun violence. Predictably, that move backfired in a city that saw 100 consecutive days of violent rioting last year...

... Nor is there any plausible way to blame the availability of guns in Oregon or in neighboring states. Guns are no more available today that they were before this 2,000% surge in murders.

This is what happens when people who are tasked with actually running a city embrace ridiculous ideologies to please activists. I would say that Portland residents deserve better, but this is the leadership they chose for their city. Given the failures of Wheeler and the city council to this point, the voters are the only ones who can change course.

If the 2020 election is any indication, it won’t be happening any time soon.

[XnavyHMCS]

Jesus, she waited way to long to shoot him. Why didn’t the guy in the white truck just hammer him with his bumper. Shocked that no one came to her defense. People are gutless, I would’ve hit that fucker doing 30 with my truck. Glad she shot his ass and you’re right...socks and sandals should be punishable by death.

I wear hi-end hiking socks (NOT Kmart brand) and sandals sometimes...

It never dawned on me, the fashion faux pas, I was involved in...

[Beetlegeuse]

Jesus, she waited way to long to shoot him. Why didn’t the guy in the white truck just hammer him with his bumper. Shocked that no one came to her defense. People are gutless, I would’ve hit that fucker doing 30 with my truck. Glad she shot his ass and you’re right...socks and sandals should be punishable by death.

The VAST majority of adults have feet that should NEVER be seen in public. But people have no self-awareness any more. Skinny jeans are proof of that. The majority of women have legs that would be better served by a dress or skirt that goes at least below the knee and preferably to the ankles, not encased in skin-tight stretch jeans like they think they're a clone of Tina Turner.

And don't even get me started on yoga pants.

If I ever find I have a terminal disease, I'm going to live out the remainder of my life walking around Walmart and asking women who deserve it, "Who the fuck told you it was okay to leave the house dressed like that?"

[wango]

The VAST majority of adults have feet that should NEVER be seen in public. But people have no self-awareness any more. Skinny jeans are proof of that. The majority of women have legs that would be better served by a dress or skirt that goes at least below the knee and preferably to the ankles, not encased in skin-tight stretch jeans like they think they're a clone of Tina Turner.

And don't even get me started on yoga pants.

If I ever find I have a terminal disease, I'm going to live out the remainder of my life walking around Walmart and asking women who deserve it, "Who the fuck told you it was okay to leave the house dressed like that?"

Holy shit beetle, you’re human.

Lol, you know who Tina Turner is!

[wango]

I wear hi-end hiking socks (NOT Kmart brand) and sandals sometimes...

It never dawned on me, the fashion faux pas, I was involved in...

Please don’t come back to the states with that outfit.

[Beetlegeuse]

Crime Soaring in Cities With Defunded Police Departments

Crime is soaring in cities where police departments have been defunded, reports Fox News.

Movements to defund the police have grown since George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis. Defunding means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality.

More than 20 major cities have reduced their police budgets in some form, though the scale and circumstances vary.

The results have not fared well in Los Angeles, Oakland, New York City, Portland and Austin. Homicides in Oakland, California, have risen 314 percent compared with the same time last year and law enforcement has seen a 113 percent increase in firearms assaults.

Violent crime surged in 2020 in Minneapolis following Floyd’s death, and murders have risen by 46 percent between Dec. 11, 2020 through March 28 of this year, compared to the same period last year.

The Minneapolis City Council in December shifted approximately $8 million from the police department to other programs. In July, it diverted $1.1 million from the police department’s $193 million budget to the Office of Violence Prevention.

Murders have tripled from July 2020 to February 2021 in Portland, where city commissioners last May voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police budget in response to complaints about police force and racial injustice. Seventeen people have been murdered in Portland in the first two months of 2021, a 1,600 percent increase from the one murder reported during the same time period in 2020.

But there were fewer reports of assault offenses during the same time period compared with last year.

New York City has seen 76 murders this year alone, compared with 68 from the same time period in 2020. The City Council in July approved slashing $1 billion from the police budget, which included nearly $484 million in cuts and $354 million reallocated to other agencies ''best positioned to carry out the duties that have been previously assigned to the New York Police Department, like the Department of Education, the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and the Department of Homeless Services." Another $162 million was slashed through "associated costs," the council said in a statement.

Los Angeles’ police department reported a 38 percent increase in murders in 2020 and a 28.3 percent increase in murders in 2021 through March 13. City leaders in July voted to cut the department’s budget by $150 million.

In Austin, where the city council voted to cut roughly one-third of the city’s $434 million police budget, aggravated assault reports were up 26 percent in 2021 as of February, compared with the same period last year.

''We are showing the country how reinvestments from the police budget can actually make many people’s lives so much better and safer,'' Gregorio Casar, a councilmember in Austin, Texas, who helped pass the major cut, told the Guardian on March 11. ''This will build momentum for changes to police budgets across the country.''

[wango]

So are you saying there are too many guns out there or just not enough police? JK man, just f’n around.

[The Deadlifting Dog]

Funny thing about 2020...
Crime also soared in cities where they didn't defund the police.

side note: I am anti defund the police.
I just think that presenting only half the story is an example of using stats to lie. Silly Fox news.

[Hughinn]

Colonel Blimp here could always have read the study he is supposedly quoting but that might prove that he is as racist as his comments indicate. Feel free to read the actual paper instead of Joe Blows' blog disguised as news. .

Considering blacks are 33% more likely to commit violent crime, and that upward of 85% of people shot by police, are shot while in the process of committing a crime, the numbers make sense.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...N2BjR_IX-bDPYf

"Racism" ain't got shit to do with it if you really think about it.

And pointing out facts doesn't make a man a "racist" just because you don't like the truth the fact bears out. Considering the fact makes more sense in the bigger picture.

I think a little more objective honesty could clear up alot of misconceptions about not just police work, but society in general.

Most american citizens of all colors are generally decent enough people, and most want to get along with one another. It doesn't make sense to allow our leaders to misconstrue facts and tell lies to make us hate each other.

[NEMESIS RR]

I didn't read through the thread but most major inner city departments are already defunded. Most do not having enough funds to provide the minimum as cars and forget about advanced training.

[Hughinn]

Funny thing about 2020...
Crime also soared in cities where they didn't defund the police.

side note: I am anti defund the police.
I just think that presenting only half the story is an example of using stats to lie. Silly Fox news.

In regard to presenting only half the story, you've got to wonder what last summer full of violence, rioting and looting in virtually every big city in america did to those crime stastics you're talking about. Irregardless of what cities did or didn't defund thier police, and I can't say with certainty it would be the whole culprit, at least not in every instance, but any reasonable person would have to admit it played a large part.

Especially when it was intentionally incited on a lie, then propogated and promoted by part of our political establishment. It didn't have to happen, and really shouldn't have.

I don't think anyone would disagree with police reform, especially in light of recent events, certainly some tactics and procedures ought to examined, but like you said, defunding the police is doing exactly the opposite.

But if you consider all those things. The statistics make sense, and the reason(s) can be identified.

[almostgone]

When it comes to crime statistics, it's really too broad a picture to paint with one brush. Either way, the picture isn't pretty because basically someone was a victim and someone was a perpetrator. At a minimum,to truly analyze the discussion fairly, it should also be broken down by age, sex, ethnicity, and percentage of the population as a whole.

For instance, let's take juvenile crime. The statistics paint a very different picture. Just take a look at the difference in the statistics race by race and offense by offense. I think many would be surprised at how many offenses are Caucasian/white.

https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2

Bottom line, a family with strong ties led by a parent/guardian with solid morals and respect for others is a huge part of the equation. Not saying that a youth who had absentee parents can't be a good/responsible person. Quite the opposite is true( personally I believe it is due to the youth wanting to be different from poor role models).

However, to point to one particular ethnicity as "the main cause" or reason for crime is simply too broad a statement.

I mean the statistics for juveniles I posted above clearly show that for all crime, whites were 2.6 times as likely to commit a crime, just compare the statistics for each type of crime and in the juvenile group, whites lead the way.
Pay particular attention to the violent crimes category at the end of the chart.

[Beetlegeuse]

Mea Culpa: Oregon's Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket

by Tyler Durden | | Monday, Apr 05, 2021 - 09:20 PM

Oregon's largest newspaper, The Oregonian, has published a mea culpa over their previous endorsement of defunding the police, after 266 shootings and 25 homicides in the first quarter of 2021. In fact, in a Monday article from the paper's editorial board, they heaped praise on the city's gun violence reduction team and defended the mayor's recent proposal to restart the 'canceled' unit after a spate of violence ensued.

"While we supported the move at the time, we – and all Portlanders ­– should recognize what has also been lost. The gun violence reduction team responded to every shooting, identifying incidents that were connected and helping disrupt potential retaliatory action. Officers had established relationships with many of those considered high-risk for being involved in gun-violence, connecting people with resources in the community as well as communicating with them about ongoing disputes to keep violence down. And as part of their work, they took dozens of guns off the street."

The paper then slams the city council for ignoring the "reality of the threat" that removing cops from enforcement jobs has had on the city, saying that a proposal by commissioners to hand $3.5 million to unspecified community groups reflects a "startling lack of seriousness, if not outright naivete," which "fails to show the urgency or understanding of the scope of this crisis."

"The council’s three newest commissioners told Mayor Ted Wheeler that they oppose the $2 million proposal to revive the gun-violence unit that he developed with members of the Interfaith Peace & Action Collaborative..."

Pay the stupid tax.

[Beetlegeuse]

Murders surge as police are defunded, up 64% in Minneapolis

...The report suggested that the new crime spike was the result of liberal communities handcuffing police, cutting funds, and publicly mocking law enforcement.

“This data confirms that in places where law enforcement saw the most resistance from community leaders and calls for less policing, we saw more homicides,” ...

[Beetlegeuse]

81% of Black Americans Don't Want Less Police Presence Despite Protests—Some Want More Cops: Poll

... A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they'd like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they'd like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area.

Black Americans' responses to the question were nearly on par with the national average, in which 67 percent of all U.S. adults said they wanted police presence to remain the same and 19 percent said they wanted it to increase....

[Beetlegeuse]

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

-- Paul Harvey

400+ cops quit in Seattle, Louisville over anti-police rhetoric, riots since 2020

April 30, 2021 Liz George

Over 400 police officers in Seattle and Louisville quit over the past year due to anti-police rhetoric amid months of violent protests, the departments said.

According to Fox News, the Louisville, Ky. police department revealed it is in “dire straits” after around 200 of its law enforcement officers quit while Seattle continues to lose cops at a record pace.

In 2020, 188 police officers left the Louisville Metro Police Department, and another 43 have left so far in 2021. Its current staff of 1,069 is 255 short of the 1,324 officers the department is authorized to have.

After Seattle Police Department lost more than 180 police officers in 2020, last week Chief Adrian Diaz said the staffing crisis has continued in the city, and another 66 officers quit in 2021 so far.

“We are at record lows in the city right now. I have about 1,080 deployable officers. This is the lowest I’ve seen our department,” Diaz said according to The Associated Press, later adding, “I’m hoping that it starts to level off. I do see that this year we could have a significant amount of people leaving.”

Carmen Best, Seattle’s former police chief who resigned last summer blamed the Seattle City Council at the time for damaging the police department.

“I believe 100% that they were putting me in a position destined to fail. Cutting a police department that already had low staffing numbers, that was already struggling to keep up with the demand,” Best said after resigning. “How are we going to provide for adequate public safety in that environment?”

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan also criticized the city council’s rhetoric, in her own statement regarding the exodus of law enforcement officers.

“Despite an increased focus on recruitment and retention, the Seattle Police Department continues to lose sworn officers at a record pace due to ongoing budget uncertainty,” Durkan’s office said in a statement. “Based on exit interviews, we know the Council’s threats of continued layoffs or cuts are having a direct impact on decisions to leave the department.”

But last year, Durkan supported an effort by the city council to cut the police department budget, saying she “[applauds] the City Council for taking a more deliberate and measured approach to the 2021 Seattle Police Department budget.”

“I believe we are laying the groundwork to make systemic and lasting changes to policing,” Durkan said in a statement. “We have rightly put forward a plan that seeks to ensure SPD has enough officers to meet 911 response and investigative needs throughout the city, while acknowledging and addressing the disproportionate impacts policing has had on communities of color, particularly Black communities.”