So we can "BUY" peace in the inner city if we just pay more taxes? I doubt it, and, to paraphrase Robert Goodloe Harper: "Millions for policing and incarcerating uncivilized thugs but not one cent for tribute."
The current trend to excuse or de-criminalize criminal behavior is going to get a lot of people injured and killed.
Yeah, walking down the middle of a street - a cop should just ignore that. And also should ignore that the description of one of the walkers matches that of a strong-arm robbery suspect that was just broadcast over the radio. Yep, the cops should ignore those small, trifling matters and wait until the Michael Browns of the world move on to bigger crime such as attempted murder. Which Brown promptly did when the cop tried to stop him.
I agree too much is criminalized in this day and age. I agree that cops too often profile race instead of activity. But in Brown's case, it was precisely his activity that drew attention. He is about the worst possible poster child for excessive force by police, and only liberal loons immune to facts continue to make him their cause. So what does that say about this writer?
He could have ordered the police teports online via email. I request them police departments all over the country online then have them emailed or mailed to me. In some instances I have to go to the police station to pick them up but those are generally the older Barney Fifeish stations.
The popos are NOT your friend, like they may have been in the 50s.
There is police misbehavior and institutional excess, but to use the defensive shooting of the Gentle Giant as a case in point is just beyond stupid, beyond idiotic, beyond propagandistic.
I give this article a super-secret double-probation F triple-minus.
Back to 2nd grade, moron!
The truth is in the free market. If you go to poor black areas you will find grocery and retail chain stores with higher prices. In the typical American business model every store is its own profit center. That means that the costs associated with shoplifting and added security are added to the costs of items in that store. Poor areas pay more because they are full of thieves, (that’s a type of criminal.) Criminal behavior draws police like stink draws flys.
Strongarm robbery is illegal everywhere, and you don’t get a ticket for it.
Orilly? To the rest of us, it looks like another in a disturbing string of coddled criminals who are so used to getting away with crime that they get high on drugs and think they're Superman, and try to attack and kill armed policemen.
There's no precedent in American history for the percentage of blacks today who grow up without fathers. Under Jim Crow and slavery before that, two-parent families were overwhelmingly the statistical norm among blacks—far more so than among white families today. The rate of fatherlessness today is why the crime wave in Section 8 areas is so astronomical. It's programs like Section 8 and the AFDC bounty for bearing children on welfare are what created this monstrous trend—which of course is one of the things that genuinely hurts blacks in poor neighborhoods the most, since it subsidizes the bad actors there.
The comment about how black people in those neighborhoods pay the brunt of the costs for extra policing now required through nuisance fines is a joke. It's everyone not in those neighborhoods—anyone middle class who has a car, and can be counted on to get fined $250 for a routine traffic ticket and actually pay it.
Kool Aide mascarading as conservatism. Simple demonstration of cause and effect: violence and crime are far more prevalent with African-Americans and policing has evolved to deal with that violence.
It isn’t pretty, but it has kept most of us secure in our homes.
It doesn’t take too much imagination to guess what would happen if thousands of Michael Browns were turned loose to do what they felt like doing, does it?
I completely lay the blame for what happened to Michael Brown at his feet. (Same goes with Trayvon Martin)
That being said, I’ve been thinking a lot about what is happening and I’ve tried to put myself in the shoes of an 18 year old black man who was born to a single mom, raised by his grandmother because his mom was a crackhead, or by a mom on welfare. I imagine my daily life, challenges, opportunities and events. And I have to say I don’t know that I would have the character - internal or learned - to prevent me from acting out like so many blacks from these areas do.
I’m not trying to say they are not culpable for their actionss But maybe, just maybe, their choices really do have more to do with environment than low character, The Bell Curve notwithstanding. And maybe we really CAN do something.
Unfortunately, none of my ideas are PC. They all involve “tough love”.
i.e. the author makes some very good points.
Utter swill.
Bullcrap. The premise is fatally flawed.
Caring about Ferguson as evidence of overzealous policing willfully ignores the hostile giant’s actions that day.
Utter bovine scatology.
What has happened to Townhall. They’ve become nothing more than a more moderate Politico.
Once an author brings up Michael Brown sympathetically, I stop reading.
Brown was a thug who got exactly what he deserved. I have ZERO sympathy for him or anyone who mourns his death. I congratulate officer Wilson for ridding this world of a criminal savage.
Anyone who believes differently is incapable of logical, moral thinking. Basically, they can’t tell right from wrong. That includes John C. Goodman of townhall.com.
Just as comparing anyone to Hitler is an automatic loss of argument, using the Michael Brown shooting as an example of police brutality is also a losing argument.
Once again...gibsmedat!
There is A LOT of crime toward peaceful civilians that is not being reported. I just spoke to someone ‘in the know’ about goings on in my community that made the hair on my neck stand on end. Violence is on the increase.
There needs to be a return to GOD before it is too late. Churches cannot turn a blind eye to this.
Pull everyone of consequence, and then nuke it from space. It is the only way to be sure.
If you don't want to live in a police state, you have to police yourself. It's silly to complain about a large police presence in your community, and all the unpleasantness that brings, after your citizens have chosen, in large numbers, to ignore the law.
Too many black people seem to have the idea that the law means whatever they can get away with.