THE POPULACE IS BEING MORE VIOLENT TOWARD THE POLICE or so says GBI Director Vernon Keenan (What he's not objective you say?)
I personally agree that “The courts fail to hold officers accountable,” said Spears. Is the root cause. If they can get away with murder, then they will.
And as the GBI knows there are more people carrying Wii Nintendo remote controllers — black and white.
According to this website, the number of police getting killed is generally trending down.
I should point out that I have no idea where the site gets these numbers.
They purport to show LEO deaths since the Founding. Color me skeptical for accuracy in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Just my personal observation when I was last in the US, police
in the last 10-20 years have been morphing into jack-booted thugs. I do not know why, unless it is the influence of TV and movie cop shows where they are always in swat gear and yelling “get on the ground. Get on the ground NOW”.
The good old boy on the beat has been replaced by whatever you want to call them.
As we creep toward turd world status the cops are increasingly becoming death squads for dogs and human beings.
The Ruling Elite are losing patience with the uppity serfs.
The Albuquerque PD recently was investigated by the DOJ. They were found to be a bit zealous when it came to use of deadly force.
Since that finding, there has probably been close to one police shooting per day in ABQ and surrounding areas.
And that doesn’t include all the terriers and poodles that get whacked..
The cops are learning that they are pretty much immune from prosecution regardless of the circumstances. So why not off the occasional great unwashed? Won’t cost ya nothin’.
what a crock. more violent towards cops. please.
Militarized police will yield military style results.
If you take a job that is inherently dangerous and above all else you place your safety above anything else to the point you are nervous about confrontation and you view everybody as a enemy and threat. YOU ARE IN THE WRONG JOB.
GA FReeper ping.
Incorrect. It is indicative of the RESPONSE of LEOs to various scenaria. Violence to LEOs may be on the rise, but that is a case of the chicken or the egg (which came 1st). This is simply a symptom of our new society. Instead of resolving situations via dialogue or negotiation, the 1st resort is now violent and final. No intent on allowing difference of opinion, merely murderous suppression of opposition.
Ummm... could it be that the latter is a result of the former?
I don’t know what fantasy world of GA Pete Combs lives in but crime is terrible in Gwinnett county where we are.
When my Mom’s house got broken into a couple of years ago the cops that came out to take the report said crime was rampant. They said it is so bad that they have trouble responding to all the break in calls.
The other thing is they are all so young that they look like teenagers. I’m not so sure a 22 year old kid is mature enough to be patrolling the mean streets.
Perhaps a significant number of those shot were responsible for a significant percentage of crime?
While this may be partly true, I also see it as a rising determination by citizens who are stopped by or near police asserting their rights more aggressively. And, the resulting response by police is not often one of accommodation or accession of basic rights, but of outright oppression.
Frankly, too many of these buzz head, steroid Rambos need to be somewhere else than on a police force, IMO.
“Spears is on the Board of the National Police Accountibility Project of the National Lawyers Guild...”
Consider the source.
The "War on" - (problems du jour) mentality invites so called Peace Officers to respond in the most unpeaceful way available.