[mhking]

It is based on blacks as a percentage of the population, rather than blacks as a percentage of the people who do the kinds of things that cause police to stop people and question them.

DING!

I love Thomas Sowell -- he makes so damn much perfect sense!

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[wideawake]

Shhh . . . don't tell all the FReepers who were weeping and tearing their garments over the death of the criminal Amadou Diallo.

[ClearCase_guy]

"How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans."

But Liberals know this already (deep down). I live in Massachusetts. Just about everyone I've ever known has been a true blue Liberal. And I would say that 100% of them have been racist and fully intent on "helping" blacks -- to stay in their proper place (below elitist Liberals).

The War Against Police is simply one of the tools.

[WaterDragon]

Thomas Sowell is ignored/hated by liberals and deceived Americans because he is so brilliant and sane and makes so much sense. But it galls me that they say he doesn't care about blacks. If you read everything he writes you know nothing could be farther from the truth than that lie.

[joesnuffy]

what is happening is the police are increasingly frustrated and hindered from arresting blacks

considering the numbers of them involved in crime..particularly against other blacks...the inability/refusal of the police to ... police the black communties ..only means one thing

Black criminals will have free reign in black communities...and it will not be due to the failure of the police...to police

Now if good black people armed themselves and refused to allow criminals to rule in their communites...and the liberals just got the hell out of the way of the decent citzenry..things would shape up quickly..

Liberals of course prefer that blacks be oppressed...its their stock in trade...and poverty pimps like Jesse 'the jet' Jackson will never ever give up his 'cash cows' or allow them to be free...and unshackled or empower them with firearms or self defense..

The dynamics of crime and police and liberals makes Jesse and his ilk far too much money and their is too much power to grab to allow blacks to be truly free

[LibertyThug]

Thomas Sowell bump!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Bump

[Ohioan]

Apt comments from a man who still has intellectual integrity.

Those who pay the price for "Liberalism"--and its many faceted flight from reality--usually are those whom "liberal" politicians and media types pretend to be helping. Throw in the history of the NAACP--an organization set up by frothy White Fabian Socialists to make race relations confrontational--and the madness described in the book review, begins to make more sense; sense from the standpoint of promoting confrontation, not solving any problems.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[headsonpikes]

More Sowell, less Morford.

[judicial meanz]

Yesterday, a police officer friend of mine was killed outside of a project in Richmond. He left 3 kids behind.

He was shot, assassination style, in the back of the neck/head behind while he met with 3 suspected drug dealers at a street corner known for high criminal activity.

No one even bothered to call the police, and everyone fled the scene after it happened. He laid there in his own blood and died in the ten minutes it took the police to figure out something had gone wrong.

Maybe this is not the best time for me to address this issue, but I am sick of people I have known for years being killed for senseless crap in crime zones that make the Vietnam war look like a glamour parlor. To think of the callous person who saw this happening, and refused to call the police infuriates me. To think of the media making these little criminal darlings out to be victims pisses me off more than words can describe.

Its time to call these people to account and confront them with the people, like my friend, who have died while they encourage this crap. I, personally wont stand for it anymore. I've been to enough police funerals in my life.


For anyone interested, this is the thread I posted about my friends death:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955927/posts

[dwd1]

Someone said there are lies, damned lies, and statistics...

The simple truth is that there are problems with the way police deal with the minorities but one needs to be fair that both sides can at times act to make the situation worse...

As a black person, the traffic stops do get old but I try to remember that the cop is just doing his job...The thing that I have seen that makes most persons not treat the police with respect is the emotional violence where a police officer takes an accusatory or hostile questioning technique without probable cause (i.e. provocation) trying to get a rise out of someone. I think treating someone that way in front of their wife and kids is not right....On the other hand, someone who is dealing drugs and taking away the future of so many communities...I am not opposed to investigatory techniques that are within the law...It is a question of balancing security with a certain loss of civil liberties....Sometimes, the price is a little high...

As someone who tries to never let a confrontation with the police get out of hand, I try to show him respect and expect the same....I wonder sometimes if those in law enforcement who mistreat the communities they patrol and protect make it harder for the majority of police that do their jobs properly and professionally just as those within a community who live outside the law make it harder for the majority within a community who obey the law. I think the acts of a few in law enforcement and in all communities cause the hostile tone that exists....The rest of us are just trying to make a living and get home alive...

[rockfish59]

Watch the cops here!

[LibKill]

I live in an apartment building and neighborhood that is majority black. I don't have a problem with this or I would never have moved here.

Over the last spring, idiot children with BB guns were plinking at the windows in my building. They shot out a few windows, and I did not know about it until they shot my window. (Yeah, I'm not real social).

A quick inquiry informed me that this was the second attack that night and no one had ever called the police.

I called the police immediately.

Now, I really regret wasting their time. I knew that they could never catch "the BB Gun bandit" (as one of them put it).

I also knew this. They were seen coming up to and into my apartment. The whole neighborhood saw it.

The word got out that there was someone in that building who was not afraid to call the police.

No windows have been shot with BB guns in the last 4 months.