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Open Season on Cops
American Thinker ^ | July 18, 2016 | G. Murphy Donovan

Posted on 07/18/2016 7:31:35 AM PDT by Kaslin

The police were ambushed again in Baton Rouge on Sunday, three dead and three seriously wounded. A dozen cops were ambushed in Dallas on 7 July, five of those died.

Police nationwide are literally in the crosshairs. Baton Rouge is just the latest killing field. What’s happening here?

Cops are often called many things, but for most folks they’re peace officers or lawmen. They are, indeed, the thin blue line between us and the worst among us.

Somehow that paradigm has been turned on its head. Punks, thugs, and religious cults are now portrayed as victims whilst cops have become the bad guys. Even the last Super Bowl featured a twerking, faux blond, rap mannequin attacking cops.

We might start with culture, the Beltway culture of racial parsing, where crime is rationalized by skin tone. Take the other day when the president ran off a string of irrelevant statistics about the likelihood of black Americans being stopped or searched by cops. The reasoning here is astounding! Are we to believe that fewer traffic stops in high crime favelas would mean fewer confrontations, fewer misdemeanors, or fewer felonies?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: islam; jihadinamerica; leo; police; religionofpeace; rop
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To: 556x45

That said rank/file patrol offciers are notoriously bad shots.

They need to become excellent shots. Their lives and the lives of the public depend on it. The problem with a SWAT team is the time it takes to get to the homicidal moron they have to deal with.


21 posted on 07/18/2016 8:30:02 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: ZULU

Yes they do, but getting/keeping them there would consume huge amts of tax dollars. Even so the police cant and arent eveywhere. The original idea was for We the People to be generally armed to aid the govt. Its the other way round these days and not working at all well.


22 posted on 07/18/2016 8:40:19 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: CodeToad
I understand your sentiments, but at this point in time, there definitely something going on here. Whether or not it is coordinated, Obama blaming the victims is not helping.
23 posted on 07/18/2016 8:46:01 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Zarro

“Cops are indeed the new centurions, all that stands between us and the abyss”

I absolutely detest that statement as it claims we the people are savages and that only the cops keep us peaceful.


24 posted on 07/18/2016 8:52:59 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Kaslin

Its obvious the MSM, Soros and the Blight House have been trying to fire up a race war. Time to hold these sh#ta$$es accountable.


25 posted on 07/18/2016 8:54:19 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: luvbach1

"...I want everyone to respect authority, but law-abiding citizens should not have to fear the police..."


Exactly. This is their biggest hurdle.

Unlike the old days, when a police officer appears in the rearview mirror of 98% of the public, they are not happy to see a LEO.
They are instead concerned it is a predatory revenue-collecting agent who is awaiting a reason, perhaps fabricated, to effect a roadside stop.
A bit less robotic and more human behavior would likely help this bridge to be crossed and an olive branches extended.


26 posted on 07/18/2016 8:58:50 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: goldstategop
I was born and raised in Germany and every year a policeman from my hometown visited our school and every class room and talked to us. At the end of his visit he always used to say. Remember the police is your friend and helper. I have never forgotten that.

BTW the father of a classmate of mine was a police officer. I don't know if it was her father who visited or another. The population of my hometown was only 3000. Today it's 6000

27 posted on 07/18/2016 9:01:55 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needI have beeed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: gaijin
Outstanding

Highest-ranking officer charged in Freddie Gray case acquitted on all counts

28 posted on 07/18/2016 9:08:56 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needI have beeed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Sam Gamgee

“I understand your sentiments, but at this point in time, there definitely something going on here. Whether or not it is coordinated, Obama blaming the victims is not helping. “

The goings on I see is Soros, obama’s handlers, and other foreigners and domestics attacking the US. They may be attacking cops, but that is the authority figure for now. They’ll attack us once the cops are weakened. Cops need to stop being so damned blue collar liberal and start defending themselves and America.


29 posted on 07/18/2016 9:10:04 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: luvbach1

See my post# 27


30 posted on 07/18/2016 9:13:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needI have beeed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: CodeToad

I actually kind of liked that statement. I don’t think it says that we are all savages, but there ARE savages among us. Look at what happened in San Jose when the cops stood down. They were hardly centurions that day and there WERE savages, as you could plainly see. It was not us.


31 posted on 07/18/2016 9:51:31 AM PDT by Zarro (JAIL CONGRESS!)
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To: Kaslin

The primary role that people see in their interactions with police is more that of tax collector, not a ‘peace officer’. No one likes tax collectors.


32 posted on 07/18/2016 10:43:03 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: Kaslin

Highest-ranking officer charged in Freddie Gray case acquitted on all counts

Tune in at 11 to see footage of the riot that is ongoing...

33 posted on 07/18/2016 12:44:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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