Posted on 05/05/2021 5:57:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To use the cliche of the moment, these are deeply polarized times. But there are some issues so urgent that we must find common ground. At the top of that list is preventing police-citizen interactions from resulting in the deaths of either innocent civilians or dedicated police officers.
Unsurprisingly, Joe Biden’s Justice Department is now signaling its intent to address this problem in the time-honored Democrat way — by “investigating” local police departments, so it can then announce the foregone conclusion that “systemic racism” abounds.
The next step in that playbook is a “Consent Decree,” where local police departments, under threat of crippling and endless Dickensian litigation, agree to hand over their keys to the feds. And yes, this nifty move is executed under color of law, though it’s not entirely different in spirit from the way Captain Phillips lost control of his container ship on the high seas, if you happened to catch the Tom Hanks movie.
Conservatives are girding for battle. In the past, Consent Decrees have been used to kneecap police departments, compelling them to waste millions of dollars on paperwork, and focus on concerns notable for not being “Keeping the Public Safe.”
Maybe in the interest of comity, we shouldn’t abandon Consent Decrees so fast. So here’s my stab at one. Below, I have enumerated 16 bullet points that I believe we can all agree on.
1) When motorists see flashing police lights behind them, they consent to pull over. (See what I mean? Nothing but common sense!)
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
How about “Police departments consent to attempt to serve search and/or arrest warrants during daylight hours, without structural damage to property”?
I remembering this starting in the UK. Now..here we are.
If 13% of the population commits 50% of the violent crime, it seems to me that reducing that number would reduce the number of police shootings, and others as well.
Very good advice for white and black,young and old,male and female.
We are headed for a National Police force that will be answerable only to the high command, whoever they are making their own rules as they go along.
Yeah, but the problem is those pesky felony warrants the resisters can't afford to have an officer look up.
She could threaten to take her clothes off.....
Chris Rock said it SO much better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx12Rox91ww
Well, remember most (not all) of the violence is committed by men not women, so it's not 13%, it's more like 6%.
And remember, it's not really the old people doing this, most (not all) of the violent crime is committed by men between 15-25, so it's more like 3%.
So 3% of the population commits 50% of the violent crime.
sounds about right!!!
Fake conservative Ann Romney
I wouldn’t mind a general policy of police only on patrol or conducting raids from sun-up to sun-down. Let the public know the policy and just let folks get armed-up for any problems after the sun goes down. In the first year, probably around 80,000 folks will meet an untimely end and we just consider it part of society adjusting to the new view of law enforcement.
It’s NOT that simple or easy. My Father told me about being involved in a foot chase with a suspect... one of the LEOS chasing this scumbag came around a corner and encountered a black child and asked which way did he go? The black child responded FU police! That was in the 1960’s. Then I had my experiences in the 1980’s. Same thing! Funny, how people can think something is going to change, or worse, they just imagine it away... the “ostrich complex”... stick your head in the sand and imagine the lion is no longer there. Magic. BS!
It’s actually way higher then 50%
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