Posted on 08/07/2016 11:37:04 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
During the Democrat’s national convention, it took until the third day before anyone got around to mentioning support for law enforcement. Police officials sharply criticized the Democratic Party for giving time for speeches to the Mothers of the Movement from Black Lives Matter, but failing to offer any time at all for the families of law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, especially those in Dallas who died protecting a BLM rally. According to the president of the largest police union, that’s no accident — and Hillary Clinton wants nothing to do with police, The Hill’s Jonathan Swan reports today:
Top officials at the biggest police union in the country are upset with Hillary Clinton, saying she snubbed them.
The leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police told The Hill that the Democrat sent a signal through her staff that she wouldn’t be seeking the union’s endorsement.
“It sends a powerful message. To be honest with you, I was disappointed and shocked,” said Chuck Canterbury, the president of the National Fraternal Order of Police.
“You would think with law enforcement issues so much in the news that even if she had disagreements with our positions, that she would’ve been willing to say that.”
Well, yes, you’d think so. In Dallas, the assassination of five police officers has produced an unprecedented round of recruiting as police chief David Brown challenged his community to stop protesting and stand watches as part of the force. Communities have rallied to police as they have come under fire — literally — from radicals bent on anarchy and destruction. There seems to be a belated realization in many communities that an effective police force is necessary, especially in the urban cores, and that pushing them into more passive stances only puts the most vulnerable citizens more at risk.
That realization hasn’t occurred to Team Hillary, apparently. The NFOP asks candidates to fill out questionnaires to allow them to determine their choice for endorsement. Donald Trump has completed his questionnaire, but they never heard back from Hillary. Instead, her staff finally responded with a “thanks but no thanks” response, making it the first such snub since John Kerry in 2004. (Barack Obama responded in both 2008 and 2012, according to Canterbury.)
Team Hillary wants to go all in with the Black Lives Matter movement, apparently, just at the moment when the movement itself seems to be contemplating its earlier strategies. Maybe that will pay off; BLM has become a sustained movement akin to Occupy, only less broad and arguably less impactful, especially since a number of assassinations of police officers have taken place. Hillary and her campaign seem to be betting that cold-shouldering cops will help build loyalty and emotional ties to the activists and their allies, which could produce a turnout similar to Obama’s in 2012 if not 2008.
As bets go, it’s not entirely irrational, but it cedes one important point. Trump has already called himself the law-and-order candidate. If Hillary chooses to go all in with BLM, that leaves the GOP wide open to embrace law enforcement at a time when civil unrest has many Americans worried — even those in cities where competent and fair law enforcement is most needed. If the GOP is paying attention, they should start messaging on this immediately, and see how well that bet works out.
Have the FOP endorse Mr. Trump and be done and over with.
Trump should speak before a police audience at least every few days. Golden opportunity.
She has chosen her side of the battle, and it’s not with the law abiding people. A clear choice she may regret very dearly. Do you really think you can control these anarchists who are so proud of their hatred for all that is white and or American? You’re on a short, thin tightrope, Mrs. Clinton, whether you know it or not.
It’s interesting that there was a whole rash of attacks on the police, and that appears to have stopped, at least for the time being. Also, there used to be riots outside of, and a lot of disruptors inside of Trump rallies, and now that has stopped.
To me, that implies that both the attacks and the riots were all planned and paid for, and once the paymasters saw that there was a huge negative response to both these activities, they, meaning Soros and his dem puppets, stopped organizing, and paying for them.
When it looks like Trump is going to win, look for the attacks and riots to resume with a vengeance.
Face it...
Hillary has a vested interest in not seeing laws enforced.
So true, so true.
I don’t understand why any union would support Hillary as she is very Anti-Union and Anti-Middle Class
I do not wholly disagree with Hitlary, because the police are becoming another enemy of the people, their attitude is that they are the straw bosses.
They are supposed to be working for the people as this nation is supposed to be governed by the people.
It is one thing to enforce the law, but the enforce
ment should be used very lightly and done with common sense which most policmen do not have.
Police are supposed to be servants of the people if they would start acting like it maybe they would not make so many enemies.
An officer told me one time, he said he had found that if he was a little easier to get along with it made his job a lot easier, which makes sense to me.
They supported her husband over Dole in 96’. They are union-bought and paid for.
“and that appears to have stopped”
I have no doubt at all that Obama/Soros/Clinton control the BLM and the other anti(you name it) groups. They can start it up and turn it off at will.
Trump can bring donuts to the next police gathering. All will be forgiven.
DemocRATs are usually defense or slip-n-fall lawyers so they tend to side with criminals.
Hillary hates law enforcement. Anecdote after anecdote proves it.
The people who run the unions are not middle-class.
“An officer told me one time, he said he had found”
I knew a few inner city cops back in the day; they all said there was no option of trying to meet them in the middle; every time they tried it turned out bad for the cops.
The DNC hosted mothers of dead criminals...
Hillary's positioning the Dem party as the party which caters to blacks. Trump is going to tell working class white voters that their real future is with the Republicans. The abandonment of white voters from the Dems will produce the bigger impact.
Aren’t most police registered Democrats?
Hillary Clinton hates the Military, middle class people,and all law enforcement people. No “normal person” would ever for this person. Remember when she ask the Military to Serve the other folks attending a White Hut social......
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