Posted on 08/13/2018 2:34:16 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
DUDLEY — Police chiefs in Massachusetts have responded angrily to a remark by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren that the American criminal justice system is “racist ... front to back.”
Ms. Warren, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, was speaking before an audience at historically black Dillard University in New Orleans Aug. 3 when she delivered what she called “the hard truth about our criminal justice system: It’s racist ... I mean, front to back.”
Ms. Warren cited disproportionate arrests of African-Americans for petty drug possession; an overloaded public defender; and state laws that keep convicted felons from voting even after their sentences are complete.
The Massachusetts senator’s remarks drew a strongly worded response from the president of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, Dudley Police Chief Steven J. Wojnar.
“Labeling the entire criminal justice profession as ‘racist’ spreads false and damaging information about our members,” Chief Wojnar wrote in an Aug. 7 letter to Ms. Warren.
“When our elected officials make generalized and inflammatory statements about our entire profession, without any information to back their position, it creates further hostility toward our officers and can damage the positive relationships with our residents that we have worked long and hard to establish,” the chief continues.
“In recent months, we have seen the murder of two officers in Yarmouth and Weymouth. In only the last two weeks, two officers were shot in Falmouth. All of these officers were simply doing their jobs when they encountered dangerous individuals. The outpouring of community support for these officers would appear to be contrary to your position.
“At bare minimum, we are requesting an explanation for your comments. As law enforcement professionals, as well as your constituents, that is deserved.”
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DemocRATS want illegal and felon prisoner votes because they are loosing voters fast with their extreme leftism. In doing so they take away good citizens votes in the process.
“and state laws that keep convicted felons from voting even after their sentences are complete.”
All the rest is a smokescreen for this. She seeks new Democrat voters.
This is why liberals are dangerous. Our law enforcement is corrupt from top to bottom, but race has nothing to do with it. In fact, the Senator Warrens of the world are perfectly satisfied to have gestapo tactics that would’ve made J. Edgar Hoover sick. This is why nothing will ever be reformed.
DemocRATS: The Pro-Crime Leaders.
The ones who should be overthrown are extreme feminazi socialists/communists like Warren and Ocasio-Cortez!!!!
Support our police, our Border Patrol/ICE, and our military!!!!
She knows it’s not racist. This is her way of telling certain demographics that they are not responsible for their actions and they can blame their self-induced failures on Whitey.
Heard the one about the fake squaw (et al) who kept crying ‘racist’ until nobody gave a damn anymore ?
Just like the kid and the wolf .. after awhile, that well runs dry.
Warren’s another Obama-style racebaiter.
As someone who is in law enforcement and near the bottom rung... if I am so corrupt why don’t I see any of that corruption cash...I don’t own a boat or an RV or vacation property.
How about you explain that comment.
She needs to go down just like Omarosa
IMO, Omarosa and the fake Indian’s speech are connected.
They are both parts of the fight for the Black vote.
And I see that the Trump message is gaining.
Just ask Kanye West!
I do not know it if it is fact, but it appears that Trump has spent more time working with the Black community than his predecessor.
Recall his line before the election, Vote for me, it could not get any worse.
A simple truth.
If more blacks than whites commit crimes, they will be disproportionately arrested, tried and punished. It has nothing to do with racism.
God Bless for your service.
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