Posted on 07/11/2016 12:26:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The police chief in Dallas, David Brown. He held a press conference that occurred during the first half hour of the program. We have two sound bites. Here's the first...
BROWN: We're asking cops to do too much in this country. We are. We're just asking us to do too much. Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental health funding? Let the cops handle it. Not enough drug addiction funding? Let's give it to the cops. Here in Dallas we got a loose-dog problem. Let's have the cops chase loose dogs. Schools fail? Give it to the cops. Seventy percent of the African-American community is being raised by single women. Let's give it to the cops to solve that, as well. That's too much to ask.
RUSH: What was that stat, 70% of the African-American community being raised by single women? "Let's give it to the cops to solve that as well. That's too much to ask." Does he have a point here on all this? Now, remember, he's African-American. It shouldn't matter, but it does. We have to point it out. In a truly colorblind society, it wouldn't matter.
But because he's African-American, the assumption is we can believe what he's saying, particularly if he happens to be critical of certain groups of people. Until maybe they can find out he listens to talk radio. If they want to discredit him, they can do it that way. But the point is, you know, society's got all these things going wrong and they blame it on the cops. The cops can't fix the things, and who ends up getting blamed for it?
The cops get blamed for it when it's not the cops' job to track down stray dogs, loose dogs. It's not their problem when your kid can't get along with anybody at school. But we do call the cops. Hell, we call the cops at 911 in Port St. Lucie when they run out of Chicken McNuggets at Mickey D's! I think he's got a point. This next one, Chief Brown is telling the protestors to get off the protest line and become part of the solution.
Dallas Police Chief: We're asking cops to do to much
BROWN: You won't see me walking past an officer without grabbing them and hugging them and shaking their hand and telling them how grateful I am for their commitment and sacrifice. Become a part of the solution. Serve your communities. Don't be a part of the problem. We're hiring. (laughter) We're hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in, and we'll put you in your neighborhood and we will help you resolve some of the problems you're protesting about.
RUSH: Wow! What an interesting and powerful suggestion that is. "Get off the protest line and help us out here. We'll even send you to your neighborhood. We're hiring. We have openings. Don't be a part of the problem." That's not gonna sit well with the protester community, because the protester community, they don't think of themselves as the problem. They think the cops are the problem. The protester community, they think they are the solution -- or whatever they think, but they don't think they're part of the problem.
And here's the police chief suggesting that they are.
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RUSH: He's a brave man, that police chief, David Brown, in Dallas. Just in two sound bites, a total about 60 seconds, he had very brave and courageous things to say.
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he couldn’t be more right
Somebody just shot up a Courthouse in Michigan. Shooter dead. Some employees dead. No details on race. Might be a white cracker hacked off at a Judge
Work? Who wants to do that? It’s much more fun to demand handouts...
Chief Brown’s heart is in the right place, but I suspect he knows very well that most of the protesters would wash out of police academy in the first week . . . even if they could qualify to get in.
Somebody just shot up a Courthouse in Michigan. Shooter dead
Oh the hippies are so freaking happy the 60s are back!
My husband is 10 years older than me and he tells me I don’t remember the 60s and 70s I was too young.
But he says it was like this all the time.
Make America Greater than ever!
I agree. These protests should be controlled by the National Guard. The police didn’t sign up for this cr**.
Sounds like the courthouse shootings in Atlanta several-years ago. Wonder if they were also using a 5 ft nothing grandmother as a bailiff.
so.....cops are being killed because they aren’t able to fix all of the country’s social problems.....because they aren’t being “fully funded”.
From a Democrat’s perspective, HOW CONVENIENT!!
Good luck with that
Gentle man?
We have a very outspoken “Reagan Conservative” in my town and he thinks that the cops should respond every time he hears a barking dog.
He has also advocated that the City have cops check every house to see how many people are living it, to write tickets for loud ice cream truck music, cite people who don’t have the right wheels to the curb, shutdown loud churches on Sunday, and the list goes on.
Why you ask? Because we have a high Hispanic population and these police actions will reduce the crime rate that he associates with them.
Yeah - those are just the kind of scumbags we want to see equipped with a badge and a gun.....
NOT!
Is this the Same Dallas PD chief whose son murdered a police officer?
Yeah, and then a cop killed his son. The guy has experience to draw on for sure. He surely gets it. I give him all the credit in the world. Frankly, I don’t know how the hell he manages.
“70% of the African-American community being raised by single women”
Perhaps housing vouchers should be limited to a maximum $400/adult plus $150 if a child under age 18 is living in the housing unit. That way, it wouldn’t pay to ditch daddy.
Housing vouchers would max out at $950.
When things go all to hell, some people bury themselves in their work. It can help, for a while.
“70% of the African-American community being raised by single women”
Another option is to financially compute welfare for single adult households using an imaginary financial assumption that an adult spouse making $14,500/year is living there as well.
We do need to end the welfare-based breakup of “deprived” households.
No child should be deprived of his daddy by the welfare system.
The protest line has brought about change in the past.
Working together as a community has almost never happened.
I don’t condone shooting cops. I don’t condone shooting anyone. But it’s just a matter of time before the people standing in the protest line look like us.
And when that happens, singing Kumbaya is not going to make an ounce of difference.
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