Posted on 10/30/2018 4:45:37 PM PDT by rogerantone1
Lots of Democrats are making it clear that they don’t trust the police. This past week, Andrew Gillum, Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Florida, claimed: “At the time that a law enforcement official has to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a taser, then they have already have to go too far by their very presence.”
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I know near brain dead people in Fla who are voting for this clown because he has a D. Or maybe because he is black.
I think there is a chance some of these Floridians take it to the street when they find out there are only so many really stupid people left. I only hope there are enough jails to hold all of the RATs who are voting for anarchy.
The whole thing is circular logic, and I’ll explain. Nearly all the major cities are and have been controlled by Democrats. They set the policies and control the police forces. On the one hand they have allowed the situations to deteriorate such that you have open drug dealing, and gang violence. And the policies have been to be lenient on criminals. But the good people, mostly poor, have to suffer living in these areas and they clamor for police protection. And so the policy is to “crack down on crime” which is not the same as “cracking down on criminals”. So the police use the tactics available to them, which is to patrol in cars and light up every vehicle with a cracked tail light or who makes a swerve on the road. And the regular working class people feel harassed by the police. You can say it for them “why are you pulling me over for a tail light when you can see a drug dealer right over there!”.
The Democrats run as “tough on crime” but “kind to criminals” platform.
The economic consequences are obvious. Businesses fail, investment in these areas dry up and everything stagnates and then declines. Ultimately, they look like Detroit does now. Even DC itself fell apart as did New York and Los Angeles among others but those places eventually attracted new investment in the form of gentrification.
As usual the Dems got it upside down. They need to be tough on criminals. You don’t have a functioning society if people prey on each other - and people prey on their own. The poor prey on the poor and the rich prey on the rich. In Beverly Hills there is little burglary but more larceny and fraud and embezzlement; the drug dealing is done indoors not not on the street; and drug use is not permitted in the open. Personally I think we ask the police to do too much and we should never use them for revenue enhancement. Give tickets when tickets are warranted but not as a means for probable cause. Naturally the good people who suffer enough at the hands of criminals will feel resentment at a “tough on crime” approach that doesn’t stop the type of crimes that really matter to a functioning society.
Andrew Gillum, Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Florida, claimed: “At the time that a law enforcement official has to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a taser, then they have already have to go too far by their very presence.”
Gillum directed a radical youth training organization whose mission was:
<><> to challenge U.S. “predatory capitalism,”
<><> abolish the prison system,
<><> fight a “spiritual resistance”
<><> battle against “Christian hegemony,”
<><> redefine the meaning of “borders” while aiding “undocumented” aliens,
<><> enact the “collective liberation” of “communities of color” amid the scourge of “white supremacy.”
Gillum’s group accused the US of
<><> being a “colonialist” power
<><> perpetrating “structural violence” and “continued genocide”
<><> blamed conservatives in the U.S. judicial system as “justifying white supremacist policing practices.”
I don’t trust the police either. They’re not there to be your friend. They’re trained to talk to you (just talk) and listen for you admitting some crime. Their primary job is revenue enhancement. Granted, that’s not really their fault, but they’re the visible enforcer there.
Don’t believe me? What’s the first thing you do when you see a cop - feel ‘safe’, or worry about what you’re doing that they might pull you over or talk to you for? (Even if you’re doing nothing wrong.)
I don’t trust the police either. They’re not there to be your friend. They’re trained to talk to you (just talk) and listen for you admitting some crime. Their primary job is revenue enhancement. Granted, that’s not really their fault, but they’re the visible enforcer there.
Don’t believe me? What’s the first thing you do when you see a cop - feel ‘safe’, or worry about what you’re doing that they might pull you over or talk to you for? (Even if you’re doing nothing wrong.)
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