Posted on 07/24/2016 5:25:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Obama’s relentless accusations that cops are lethally biased, his embrace of Black Lives Matter, and the media’s amplification of that mendacious movement’s lies about the police have led to the drop in proactive enforcement and the resulting increase in crime. Trump’s recognition of the role that official rhetoric plays in determining facts on the ground is sophisticated. And his unapologetic alarum about the rising threat to law and order signified by the deliberate attacks on police officers is welcome.
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If on-duty deaths remain rare, so do police shootings of unarmed black males. In fact, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. And the fact that “2016’s increase in gunfire deaths so far came after decades of decline” is precisely what makes the increase so striking. That it reverses decades of decline is not a point in Black Lives Matter’s favor.
Not enough attention has been paid to the portent that is this year’s string of attacks on police officers—not only in Dallas and Baton Rouge but also in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan, Chicago, and Tennessee. We could be seeing the start of not just a war on cops, but more widespread racial violence.
Trump’s speech was a bold and important shift in the prevailing discourse about policing and crime. It couldn’t have represented a sharper distinction from the Obama-Clinton message, relentlessly delivered, that our criminal justice system and our nation’s police are infected with racial bias. Trump is absolutely right that law and order is at stake. The elites hear “law and order” rhetoric as code words for racism. They are the ones, however, who are turning their eyes away from the black bodies piling up...
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Unfortunately, As long as we have the current POTUS, DOJ, liberals and MSM saying that LEO’s and Law-Abiding American Citizens are the Criminals and that BLM, NBPP, and Muslim terrorists are the victim’s. This bunch of Bovine Scatology will continue.
Please note that when any of the criminal thugs commit a crime and are stopped by LEO’s, even before the evidence is completed the LEO is accused of Police Brutality and is denigrated and disrespected by Obama, Lynch, the MSM and others of their libtard ilk!
Even when the truth prevails and the thug is found to be the criminal, they defend the criminal over the LEO and even the Victim(s). Until we as a society tell these liars and deceivers to stop what they do and arrest and bring them to trial for their lies, they will spread their mantra of lies and deceit to any who will listen to them.
Remember that these POS’s never tell the truth, and will use any means to get their perverse message to the sheeple who believe them.
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