Posted on 07/07/2021 9:40:00 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
For Risaiah Osborne, a 20-something student who lives near where Mr. Brooks was killed, gunfire has been a weekly occurrence outside his home.
“The more I think about this, I think we need to change American culture more than we need to change the cops,” he says. “If you think about sports, it feels like this country is a losing team right now. It’s not the players who need to be changed. It’s the culture and the values of the team.”
“‘Defund the police’ was a slogan that really backfired ... because across the country – not only in Atlanta – people living in those neighborhoods who aren’t necessarily activists don’t want the police gone, especially with crime spiking,” says Ron Bayor, a historian at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “What people do want is police reform.”
Despite prominent and tragic confrontations between police and the Black community, there has been progress, says Professor Bayor, author of “Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.”
“Police are much better here than they were years ago. There’s diversity in terms of people and practice,” he says. “But you’ve had a few outstanding incidents where the violence could have been de-escalated and nobody had to be shot. That’s what police have to work on.”
Debra Flowers agrees.
“Sometimes it’s annoying to be hassled by them, and sometimes they threaten you with a ticket,” she says. “But they are just doing their job. They are keeping watch. They are protecting us. I’m old, but I’m a tough lady. Ain’t nobody going to rob me, if I can help it. But I don’t think we need fewer cops. We need more of them.”
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Huh…..
I’ll be…..
Of course they want police, but it’s a National Police Force they want, answerable only to them.
This is just the “teardown” Phase.
The same political football has been kicked around periodically since the 1940s. This generation is no more capable of solving it than the old ones were— maybe less so because the politics has become more malignant.
Sadly, black Americans don’t need less police, they clearly need MORE police, and I think most agree with me.
Progressive axiom: crime is not a thing; the only “crime” is hindering The Revolution.
Time for folks to look past this “defund the cops” mantra and pay attention to a much larger issue that has been there for quite some time.
The number of young adults in their early 20s, the target audience to fill the ranks of police and fire departments, DO NOT WANT THE JOB.
Police departments have been having hiring issues for years. It’s gone into overdrive with wall the BS that happened last year and radical & incompetent mayors, like Mayor Kiki in Atlanta, and all the others in cities like Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, NYC, etc etc etc.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/public-schools-are-teaching-our-children-to-hate-america/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/2/american-textbooks-are-making-kids-hate-america/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/04/college-students-say-they-are-embarrassed-to-be-americans/
University Students Celebrate the Fourth of July by Slamming America .... these Georgetown Univ kids are not a one-off instance.
Now, toss in the defund movement, cops being indicted for doing their jobs, a small-yet very loud segment of society calling for their elimination, their local government reps talking sh*t about them and that makes for a bad recipe.
The REAL issue is lack of morality, preferably Christian faith-based morality. The commies have been busy getting that out of the schools for decades. We see why now.
Even though Christian-based morals are best, can’t school districts implement morality training that is not directly tied to faith? Why can’t we teach fundamentals of morality like don’t murder, do not injure others, treat others like you want to be treated, don’t steal from others, respect other people even if they are different?
But we can’t have that because the Commies WANT the violence, murder, chaos, turmoil and controversy. They have clearly shown us that in the last two years more than ever before. It is way past time we start calling them out on that.
It’s the black neighborhoods that suffer with this heavy crime. Those “black” leaders who call for less cops almost all live in safe white neighborhoods and couldnt care less about black on black crime.
And the white liberals who spew out this defund the police nonsense, never set foot in the ghetto either.
“I think we need to change American culture more than we need to change the cops,” he says.”
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