Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It's not too late
To whip it
Into shape
Posted on 11/17/2018 7:50:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.
Now, after becoming the first black person elected sheriff in Birmingham — on the same day voters elected the community’s first black district attorney — Pettway sees himself as part of a new wave of officers and court officials tasked with enforcing laws and rebuilding community trust fractured by police shootings, mass incarceration, and uneven enforcement that critics call racist.
In a state where conservative politicians typically preach about getting tough on crime, Jefferson County’s new sheriff ran and won on an alternative message. He favors decriminalizing marijuana, opposes arming school employees, supports additional jailhouse education programs to reduce recidivism and plans for deputies to go out and talk to people more often, rather than just patrolling.
“Going forward we need to think about being smarter and not being harder,” said the Democrat Pettway, 54.
While the nation’s law enforcement officers are still mostly white men, and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and Black Lives Matter call for sweeping changes in the criminal justice system, minorities appear to be making gains nationwide. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
That first sentence casts doubt on the article’s veracity.
In other words, we’ve got to stop interfering with criminal activity in our neighborhoods. It’s getting harder for criminals to make a living.
And this sheriff sounds like he will be much like Sheriff Israel in Florida. Sad for this area.
Yup. Had they been honest and said “democratic operatives” instead of kkk it would have been more truthful.
Oh, and the use of “going forward” is a non starter too.
Once again we see that you cannot trust a Democrat to enforce the law or protect the people.
We get exactly the amount of crime, in a society, that we tolerate.
Baltimore, Detroit and over cities have black police chiefs and DAs. Their crime rates are off the charts.
Black suspects more at risk from black cops
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/26/black-suspects-more-likely-to-be-shot-by-black-cop/
More precisely, it’s about downgrading enforcement on crimes against white people.
Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It's not too late
To whip it
Into shape
Expect Birmingham to be the next Chicago.
Cry cry wash wash
My old man died when I was 14 and I didn’t cry like a bitch. You move on
1950s??!! Really?!?!
Let’s just go back to the 1800s while we are at it in our search for pity?
You’ve seen some racism? Tough sh.t
Grab your balls, act like a man and stop crying.
An education and a job would help the guys in this area more than polite ####ing police.
A white cop will hesitate to shoot a black guy because they know their lives will be turned into hell. So they will put themselves at risk rather than shoot.
Not the same as GOING forward. LOL! Actually the message in Whip It is a damn good message. Devo odd, but what the heck. MTV of old when it actually played music now a political arm of the dnc.
“Dynamite Hill”
You see, those stupid old white Christian male racists thought that the Civil Rights movement would lead to cities like Birmingham becoming cesspools of crime and corruption, and that it would destroy the school system and other institutions. Boy, what a bunch of dumb old inbred rednecks they were. Wrong on all of it. The Democrats are the real racists! MLK was a gun totin’ Republican! Blacks and Hispanics are natural conservatives!
Police shootings: other than accidents these happen when people are engaged in crime
Mass Incarceration: funny thing about juries, when someone is charged with a crime they don’t see a race sitting in the dock but a man ... and often a victim somewhere in the courtroom too ... guess what? If criminals who happened to be black weren’t mostly victimizing other black persons they wouldn’t be sitting before juries with black people on them who are fed up of their shit. “Mass Incarceration” apparently isn’t on the minds of all those black jurors voting to convict (just one can prevent conviction). That’s a mantra for all the folks outside the courthouse who aren’t actually tasked with standing in judgment over another.
Uneven Enforcement: well guess what, folks, law enforcement goes where the problems are. If you want them out of your neighborhoods to correct the “social injustice” then be prepared. In the meantime, it has been the black community that has often demanded these harsh enforcement policies because they live with the out of control criminal element far too often.
But affluent liberals, white and black, can sit safely afar and parrot all these talking points and more.
The problem isn’t race, it never has been, and it’s been a long time since it’s actually been racism ... it’s progressivism. An ideology that encourages people to look to government rather than God, to be dependent rather than independent, to be nice rather than moral, to be tolerant rather than righteous. An ideology that has now been consumed by the very sorts of people that the anticommunists of old were fighting to prevent. And just as progressivism has gotten worse so too has the problems in its wake gotten worse.
As with black jurors, I speculate they’re just tired of the criminal element’s shit.
Better educational and reentry programs in the prisons … yes, of course, but it's hardly a new idea. It ain't as if nobody's thunk of this before. Any discussion has to begin with an analysis of why existing efforts in this area have failed. Where are the successes? Can they be replicated and scaled up? And what do we do with the incorrigibles, of whom there are many? (Canvas bags, heavy rocks and deep water come to mind.) If we don't think these things through, we end up doubling down on failure, which is generally just A-ok with the democrats and their union allies, because if you're going to fail anyhow, accountability disappears and it's easier to divert the money to higher pay and bigger payrolls.
Bringing back beat cops has some merit. It depends on the neighborhood; cops can't walk beats in highly dispersed suburban areas. But in urbanized areas, it might help. In some areas in DC, we have a very visible presence of cops on bikes. I like to see them out there, and if they park the bikes and actually talk to people, great. Maybe more of them should be walking. A basic problem here, of course, is cost. A beat cop has a fairly limited range. We would need a lot of them. Back in the day, when beat cops were common, police officers were paid much less, at least at the beat cop level. Nowadays we demand much higher levels of education and training, and that implies higher pay. The unions also help drive this. Maybe we need to bring back lower-paid beat cops as the first line of defense, and let those who have a talent for policing work their way up.
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