Posted on 10/09/2015 2:32:29 PM PDT by rellimpank
Chiefs of some of the nation’s biggest police departments say officers in American cities have pulled back and have stopped policing as aggressively as they used to, fearing that they could be the next person in a uniform featured on a career-ending viral video.
That was the unifying — and controversial — theory reached Wednesday at a private meeting of more than 100 of the nation’s top law enforcement officers and politicians.
With homicide rates soaring inexplicably this year in dozens of U.S. cities, the group convened by new U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch concluded with a brief news conference promising a robust response to the reversal of decades of falling violent crime rates.
But for hours preceding that, mayors, police chiefs, U.S. attorneys and even FBI Director James Comey privately vented in a Washington ballroom that they don’t really understand the alarming spike in murders and applause filled the room when mayors said police officers’ sinking morale could be a factor.
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Leftist p[politician pander to their voter base by jumping on this “hate the Cops” band wagon and then wonder why the cities they govern are spinning out of control?
Get off the freaking steroids.
That would be a great start.
Also stop hiring bums festooned in garish tattoos.
And knock off the shaved head and screaming everything.
There are plenty of “hate the Cops” FReepers on this board as well, besides the leftists.
I’m convinced they are the former thug teenagers who got dozens of tickets for acting like asses in their first cars.
If you know your boss is going to throw you under the bus, you are going to be a lot more careful.
I don’t hate the cops. They should be as accountable
for their actions as anyone not acting under the color
of authority. Worrying they might end up on Youtube
might serve as a conscience when one would be otherwise
absent.
You seem incapable of seeing the police as anything but perfect when police are nothing more than agents of the state, here to do their bidding.
For profit policing, expansion of militarization, total lack of impartial oversight are the reasons real freedom loving Americans hate the cops. We don’t hate them all, just the blue line loving pigs and their dutiful authoritarian cucks like you.
Police today are not part of the community, they are an occupying force. Until you realize this and until changes are made the police will continue to die and few good people will sign up and want to join their ranks.
A page from their book: “If they weren’t doing anything wrong, they wouldn’t have to worry.”
The guys who aren’t up to BS don’t care about being videotaped.
Thou doth protest too much.
Sooo.... you would have... NO law enforcement? Or maybe you just don't like laws at all.
“Well, I keep asking my staff, what has changed that would explain that this is happening in the first nine months of this year and all over the country?”
And this is from the FBI director.
He must be a complete moron.
.
You’ve so cleverly boxed in the gallery. They can’t say anything but yes, even their no means yes.
Big cases, Big problems
Little cases, Little problems
No cases, No problems
How does candid camera honesty equate to “NO law enforcement”?
IBTG
Yeah, that’s every cop in America. /sarc
Anyone who uses the word “pigs” can’t really be taken seriously, because to so casually toss out one of the left’s favorite terms betrays an underlying lack of maturity. Go occupy Central Park or something.
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