Posted on 08/15/2014 5:05:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you’ve been watching cable news, reading Hollywood celebrities’ tweets, and listening to race-hustling opportunists, you might think that every police officer in America has a finger on the trigger, hunting for any excuse to gun down defenseless youths.
This hysterical nonsense must be stopped.
The Cirque du Cop-Bashing, with Al Sharpton as ringmaster, is working overtime to exploit the deadly incident in Ferguson, Mo. That means stoking anti–law enforcement fires at all costs.
Are there bad cops? Yes. Does the police state go overboard sometimes? Yes. Do the demagogues decrying systemic racism and braying about “assassinations” know what happened when teenager Mike Brown was tragically shot and killed last week? No.
Here’s a reality check. While narcissistic liberal journalists and college kids are all posting “hands up” selfies in hipster solidarity with Ferguson protesters, it’s law-enforcement officers who risk their lives in “war zones” every day across the country.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) reports that a total of 1,501 law-enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past ten years, an average of one death every 58 hours, or 150 per year. These include local and state police officers, federal officers, correctional officers, and military law-enforcement officers.
Fact: Last year, 100 law-enforcement officers were killed. On average, over the past decade, there have been 58,261 assaults against law enforcement each year, resulting in 15,658 injuries.
Fact: New York City has lost more officers in the line of duty than any other department, with 697 deaths. Texas has lost 1,675 officers, more than any other state.
Just this week, NLEOMF released preliminary fatality statistics from August 2013 to August 2014. Total fatalities are up 14 percent, from 63 last year to 72 this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
That's funny, I don't care who you are.
Because if the speeder or drunk isn’t apprehended he might kill you, your kid or your wife.
With only a slightly lesser chance that a pursuing officer might kill me, my wife or my child.
What happened to the cop, of your mention?
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Fired , that was Officer Maupins sixth incident , first deadly one. he now works as a cop in another city. Of course the FHP covered up for him by not confiscating the in-car video which later magically disappeared ... Oh by the way I was wrong ,, 5 years now ,, time flies ...
EXCERPT:
Crash report: Altamonte Springs cop was speeding
January 1, 2009|By Bianca Prieto, Sentinel Staff Writer
A longtime Altamonte Springs police officer who crashed into a car on Maitland Boulevard in November and seriously injured two people was traveling an estimated 104 mph at the time of the accident, a Florida Highway Patrol crash report shows.
Master Police Officer Mark Maupin was in his police cruiser when he hit the back of a Honda Civic about 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 30 near Bear Lake Road. The posted speed limit in the area is 45 mph.
Troopers think Maupin, 49, lost control of his vehicle while trying to go around a slight curve on Maitland Boulevard and slammed into the 2001 Honda Civic that was stopped in the turn lane at a light.
The crash caused the Honda’s driver, Jennifer Hernandez, 19, and passenger Erskin Bell, 20, severe injuries; both were hospitalized for several days.
Bell remains in a coma, hooked up to a ventilator and a respirator at a rehabilitation center, said Nathan Carter, an Orlando attorney representing the Bell family. Hernandez was released from the hospital last month.
Bell was on vacation from college, where he was studying to be a pilot, when the accident occurred, Carter said. Bell is an only child and is a “super smart kid,” Carter said. Doctors think he could be severely brain damaged if he comes out of the coma, Carter said.
I respect the police and it probably is true that this kid did something that warranted a strong response. And even if the cop overreacted in the heat of the situation, I am willing to give him lattitude becaus it is a dangerous job where you have to make snap judgments.
But having said that, I agree with others that the response, with military vehicles on the street, is obscene. These vehicles and the riot gear need to be taken away from the police.
The cop of your mention deserved to be fired. More prayers for your Son. May God work a miracle.
I don’t think full auto does anything for cops except create a risk to the public. Cops are not the military and should not have military weapons, whether they are are APCs or SMGs and assault rifles. They should not have anything that is not available to the public. They should be able to use training and tactics defeat numbers, if that becomes necessary.
“I have a kid in a coma for the last 3 years I see every day”
Truly sorry for the child in a coma. So your solution would be, don’t go after speeders, drunks, tail gaitors, weavers, or reckless drivers? I think not!
This is my point. Sometimes the bad guys have full auto. We saw it in California during and after a bank robbery. Doesn’t happen often but regrettably it does happen. To go home at night or the next morning I fully believe in Be Prepared.
Ever try speeding through an intersection and killing a local girl because you didn't want to stop for a red light?
Please note, this officer was not in pursuit of anyone, but responding to a call of a potentially drunk driver. The intersection in question has a blind spot for the north-bound driver with respect to the west-bound cop.
The cop had a history of speeding http://www.abqjournal.com/201659/news/family-sues-apd-over-patrol-suv-fatal-crash.html
I have personally been behind an Albuquerque cop who was speeding on Paseo Del Norte going west-bound. He hit speeds well over 80 mph in a 60 mph zone, with no lights or siren on. He stopped at a red light just down the road, and due to lights/traffic, I managed to hang with him at legal speeds. I followed him (on my route home, not going out of my way) into a neighborhood in the neighboring city of Rio Rancho. Not responding to a call, no lights, no siren, just in a hurry to get home.
Hard to say. When a cop is shot and killed by a perp on duty, it's almost always national news. I don't recall this happening almost every week on average. Additionally, I'd suspect given the huge number of LEOs across the country, suicides would be much higher than 27 so far.
Could be true. I'm sure the real numbers are out there somewhere.
Anyways, I was curious about some numbers so I looked at cab drivers. There are about 780,000 cops in the United States (2006) and as of 2012, about 233,000 cab drivers. About 30-40 cab drivers are murdered each year, which would make their murder rate much higher than cops. Yet when a cab driver gets murdered, it's rarely more than regional news.
the implications go beyond their words. kinda like bill clinton telling us one thing whilst saying another.
plain language, plain truth. i shouldn’t have to parse what you say in order to divine what you really mean
Hope you filed a report ... I would have and have done so in the past. Is sometimes trouble but if am going to be in trouble for reporting the truth ... So be it.
Fortunately that wasn’t a relative of mine ,, I just pass that part of the hospital daily making deliveries to the Pharmacy...
Ever try speeding through an intersection and killing a local girl because you didn't want to stop for a red light?
http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico/albuquerque/Police-officer-involved-in-fatal-car-crash/18487372
Please note, this officer was not in pursuit of anyone, but responding to a call of a potentially drunk driver. The intersection in question has a blind spot for the north-bound driver with respect to the west-bound cop.
The cop had a history of speeding http://www.abqjournal.com/201659/news/family-sues-apd-over-patrol-suv-fatal-crash.html
I have personally been behind an Albuquerque cop who was speeding on Paseo Del Norte going west-bound. He hit speeds well over 80 mph in a 60 mph zone, with no lights or siren on. He stopped at a red light just down the road, and due to lights/traffic, I managed to hang with him at legal speeds. I followed him (on my route home, not going out of my way) into a neighborhood in the neighboring city of Rio Rancho. Not responding to a call, no lights, no siren, just in a hurry to get home.
Sorry, mistyped the link in the first post.
Also, the cop who killed the woman? His name is Adam Casaus. There's a Jesse James Casaus running for Sheriff of Sandoval County (neigboring county to Bernalillo, where Albuquerque is located) this year as a Democrat. I wonder if they're related.
Well if shooting unarmed civilians will bring that total down then I guess it's open season on the folks they're supposed to 'serve and protect'.
I am also willing to give a certain amount of latitude for errors in judgment made by officers under extreme stress - IF the mistake is recognized and corrective actions taken.
But I have NO sympathy for a police officer, or police department, that lies to cover up such mistakes and tries to pretend that no one did anything wrong.
“I have personally been behind an Albuquerque cop who was speeding on Paseo Del Norte going west-bound. He hit speeds well over 80 mph in a 60 mph zone, with no lights or siren on. He stopped at a red light just down the road, and due to lights/traffic, I managed to hang with him at legal speeds. I followed him (on my route home, not going out of my way) into a neighborhood in the neighboring city of Rio Rancho. Not responding to a call, no lights, no siren, just in a hurry to get home.”
What’s your solution, disolve the police? Who you gonna call when your neighbor gets drunk and keeps you up all night or you have a heart attack?
I don’t see any protests in support of cops. No riots either. In fact no reporting either.
Awesome :)
The good cops should be fighting to stop the whitewash because that makes them all look bad when they allow the corruption to continue.
You are a good person to visit the person trapped in a coma. Know his family appreciates you. I would if the child, in the coma, was mine. Prayers ...
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