The War on Cops

Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 07-08-2016 | Heather MacDonald

[Tudorfly]

Rush interviewed Heather MacDonald, author of the book The War on Cops, on his radio show today. Here is a transcript excerpt:

MAC DONALD: Well, let's look at some of the numbers. I know numbers are sometimes tough over the radio, but a larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths are the results of police killings than black homicide deaths. That is, 12 percent of all whites and Hispanics who die of homicide are killed by police officers. Four percent of all blacks, homicide victims, are killed by police officers. So if we're going to have an Anti‑Cop Lives Matter movement it would make more sense to call it White and Hispanic Lives Matter.

The fact is that over 6,000 blacks die of homicide each year. That is more than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population. And the reason they are dying of homicide at a rate six times higher than whites and Hispanics combined is because they commit homicide at eight times the rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined. And that type of crime disparity means that when the police are trying to save lives, they are in minority neighborhoods confronting people engaged in drive‑by shootings, killing children.

In the last 72 hours in Chicago there's been about four children under the age of eight who have been shot. One boy shot in the back on Father's Day. A three‑year‑old boy was shot. He's now paralyzed for life. That's who police are trying to protect. But given the disparities in crime rates the police cannot help but be in minority neighborhoods where they're confronting violent and resisting suspects and sometimes officers themselves will have to use force to protect themselves and protect innocent bystanders.

[Tudorfly]

Blacks are warring on themselves. Cops are fighting an uphill battle to protect the lives of everyone. Blacks should not look at cops as the enemy. Instead, they should look at themselves, and work to change the culture of their own communities. Police officers and white people are not their enemies.

[thouworm]

Related thread. Posted here also:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3447513/posts

[KeyLargo]

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[Talisker]

Blacks are warring on themselves. Cops are fighting an uphill battle to protect the lives of everyone. Blacks should not look at cops as the enemy. Instead, they should look at themselves, and work to change the culture of their own communities. Police officers and white people are not their enemies.

True, but Blacks are also Community Organized.

That's their real problem.

[Secret Agent Man]

This is sidetrscking the real issue.

It is The War on Whites.

This is a more accurate assessment of what is going on.

[Secret Agent Man]

Barry is doing everything he can to make this turn into South Africa and Mugabe-ville as fast as he can.

He wants a national crisis for nationwide martial law.

[Logical me]

This is not just a war on cops. It is a war headed by King Obama, the communists black Muslim terrorists, on America. And without the real American people on the side of a real leader who is committed saving America, it is doomed.

Hopefully Trump for President. Last chance.

[Kaslin]

Heather McDonald the subject of the article, not the author