Posted on 06/14/2020 10:38:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is a war at home. In every city, courtroom, and District attorney’s office, the “generals” are deciding whether or not they will support their men and women on the frontlines or abandon them. The war against the women and men in blue will determine whether civilization and order are upheld or drowned by the mob in the streets.
As we sit at home contemplating the actions of ex-Officer Derek Chauvin, we need to remember that without law enforcement officers, America will not survive. Law enforcement officers protect and serve the people. That’s why they are present in every society from the Middle Ages until present day. Yes, there are always a few bad apples in the mix, which is true of every large organization. However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics in a 2011 article stated that out of 40 million civilian encounters, less than 1.3-1.4% ever result in an arrest or altercation, leading us to believe that the vast majority of police officers are good and took the job to help people no matter what their race, religion, or skin color is.
Already, law enforcement officers have suffered greatly and there’s a growing danger of collapse not just of police morale, but police numbers. In 2019, 48 law enforcement officers were shot to death in the line of duty and many of them were ambushed answering a call for help. In 2020, the riots have already claimed the lives of at least three police officers, while injuring many more and the ambush rate will likely increase. Why has respect been lost in law enforcement officers? Recruitment is down 52 percent and if “qualified immunity” is turned over by the Supreme Court, law enforcement recruitment will drop even more.
We’ve all seen the deeply troubling tape of Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd's neck on Memorial Day. However, we cannot delude ourselves into believing this kind of brutality is the standard, rather than the exception.
George Floyd has become a symbol: sanitized and whitewashed. The facts are Floyd went to prison multiple times, the last for shoving a gun in the belly of a pregnant woman in Texas during a home invasion. Chauvin has also become a symbol of his action. They were not pillars of society. A lack of calm pursuit for justice in the prosecution against police wrongdoings resulted in a myriad of peaceful protests, riots, looting, and destruction of local businesses. As a nation we must do better and restore America’s faith in law enforcement officers, we cannot allow underground money and agitators waiting for the right moment to destroy America and other world bastions of democracy.
Radicals are demanding that we “Defund Police Now!” — not thinking of the anarchy that would swiftly follow if they’re successful. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the House of Representatives are trying to push legislation with massive law enforcement reforms that would hurt policing, empower drug dealers, and reverse the strong decline in crime over the last three years. The Democrats want to bind the hands of the police and handcuff justice forever by requiring police departments to send data on the use of force to the federal government and create a grant program that would allow state attorneys general to create an independent process to investigate misconduct or excessive use of force. This legislation, if passed, would make it easier for people to recover damages when police departments allegedly violate civil rights. In truth, it would stack the deck against the police, and justice.
Remember those in blue who are inherently standing up for good during the protests, riots, and in everyday life. Without police who are you going to call in any life-threatening situation? Life without laws and law enforcement is anarchy.
the morons that want to defund the police don’t realize that the police are there to protect THEM from US!
No. Their Unions are. Thanks to the Police Union, Derek Chauvin will receive 50 thou a year in pension payments even if he is convicted.
Wait, what?
Some cops are among the best of all citizens. Paragons of virtue. I have been honored to know several of that caliber.
But some cops are mere thugs with delusions of grandeur who get a hard on from crushing us under their boot.
And there seem to be many more of those type since 9/11 and the Patriot Act/DHS militarized PDs across America.
DemocRATs are the enemy.
Derek Chauvin is a victim of liberalism, lousy cop that wasn’t fired with a record of problems. Can’t fire anybody these days.
So when a large black man high on drugs or intoxicated resist the police what should they do? If they don’t arrest him and he harms someone else, the lawyers will probably line up to sue the police department. Maybe the liberal idiots who want to defund the police should volunteer to walk up to him with a bouquet of flowers and talk him into surrendering.
They worst of them are the ones that protect the bad ones just because they wear blue. When it is all about ‘ the thin blue line’ instead of the truth and what is right then my support wanes.
OTOH, I respect those the run into the fight to protect the citizens and property of the nation, and will support them all the way.
The LEOs are an elite club, and they MUST preserve it as such.
BLM is the enemy
Be more precise...BLM, Inc. is the enemy. They are a profit-making organization.
Cops or a revolution. One or the other. But, something really, really bad is coming.
It must be remembered that law enforcement officers are but a representation of the community they serve. Rotten people elect rotten officials. Rotten officials appoint rotten police chiefs. Rotten police chiefs hire rotten cops.
They weren’t until the shutdown. Then they became the enforcers of insane, dictatorial Dem decrees, and they lost a lot of support from ordinary people of any color.
Move the police to the sheriff’s office. Use the sheriff SOP.
We had police before police.
Interesting isn’t it? The fix isn’t make the bad guys stop doing bad things, it’s make the good guys change the way they way they deal with bad guys.
This is very well written of the mantra that I’ve been saying for a while now
Republican position: word for law and order and the police
Democratic position (reflexive). [THE OPPOSITE-!!!!
We’ve all seen the deeply troubling tape of Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd’s neck on Memorial Day. However, we cannot delude ourselves into believing this kind of brutality is the standard, rather than the exception.
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Typical rush to judgment to appease the mob. The knee on the neck was brutal only if injured Floyd or significantly contributed to his death. The autopsy report, the toxicology evidence, and Floyd’s complaint of a breathing problem BEFORE the knee provide evidence to the contrary. Even the photo doesn’t show the cop with a posture of bearing down on his knee with an evil look on his face.
The increasing militarization and the disturbing seizure of private property and goods without warrant or cause, which enables further militarization disturbs me greatly.
And I say this from a position of having been in some sort of Law Enforcement for over 38 years.
I'm not casting a wide net on this issue, as there are many fine and decent police departments and damned good people in them.
But, the bad apples...and the rest of barrel, as they say.
I have no solution, but I do know that blaming every cop that walks for the myriad of problems with black folks is not the answer.
The huge majority of the inner-city black youth is indoctrinated from first breath that the cops are the enemy.
You know it, I know it...and every black "leader" knows it, yet will not address it.
I can say without reservation that I am not a racist, but I find it easier and easier to look at some of the people involved in these situations and automatically think of it in terms of skin color.
It grieves me...and it goes against all that I believe and it makes me feel distant from my faith.
It is the subject of my nightly prayers.
I absolutely...positively and without reservation believe that George Floyd is dead as a direct result of the negligent and purposeful actions of the cop.
But I cannot dismiss the whole of the situation, which is to say that had George Floyd not lived his life in the manner in which he chose, he would not have lost in the manner he did.
And that goes for a lot of other ones.
Great job, LBJ...your "Great Society" has made a big difference, right?
George Floyd is Rodney King 2.0.
King was high on a cocktail of drugs—including PCP when he was finally subdued after a (Interstate 210) chase of over 100 MPH.....when King was driving a YUGO!!!
Like Floyd, King had an extensive criminal record.
Both knew that they should be obeying the cops orders, and they each chose NOT TO DO SO.
Too bad that the media cannot come close to telling the whole story about George Floyd.
Stop with all the whitewash !!
A Saint He Ain’t !!
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