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WaPo Belatedly Exonerates Cops: Vast Majority Of Police Shootings 'Justified'
Topic Started: Nov 5 2015, 07:01 AM (753 Views)
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WaPo Belatedly Exonerates Cops: Vast Majority Of Police Shootings 'Justified'


The Washington Post has just conducted a massive survey of police shootings and found that — surprise, surprise! — virtually all of them are justified. Thanks. Now where do cops go to get back their reputations?

Certainly not the White House. It's claiming there's "no evidence" to support the FBI director's recent statements about a "Ferguson effect" hampering police work.

In fact, data show police morale and arrests are down in St. Louis, Baltimore, New York, Seattle and other cities where police are under siege, while crime is spiraling out of control.

A recent Justice Department investigation of the St. Louis County Police Department found no conclusive evidence of racial bias. It did find the number of police stops, searches and arrests of blacks in the county plunged last year after the Ferguson riots.

There were 1,918 fewer stops of black drivers in 2014 vs. 2013, and 624 fewer arrests. Policing in the black community fell to the lowest level in years.

The Ferguson effect is also supported by anecdotal evidence. In Birmingham, Ala., a white police officer allowed himself to be pistol-whipped unconscious by a black suspect, rather than fight back and risk being accused of racism.

Seeing its war on cops and soft-on-crime approach backfiring with surging crime rates, the White House is trying to cover its tracks by dismissing the alarming trend. The president himself has taken to the podium to pooh-pooh the link between cop-bashing and the national crime wave.

Obama even called FBI chief James Comey to the White House for an unscheduled meeting Thursday. No doubt the purpose was to get Comey to couch the truth of what's become an embarrassing political situation for the president and a crisis for the public.

But the Post has undercut Obama's main excuse for federalizing the nation's 18,000 police departments through "criminal justice reform."

The paper analyzed 800 fatal police shootings and found that in 74% of the cases, police pulled the trigger only after the suspect fired, brandished a gun or attacked someone. In 16% of the shootings, cops fired when the suspect acted in a dangerous and threatening manner, such as refusing to put down a knife.

In 5% of the cases, officers used force when the suspect refused to show his hands and made a sudden move that made them think he was reaching for a weapon. The Post said the justification for force in the remaining 5% of cases was undetermined.

So much for the myth racist cops are shooting people for no reason. But the damage is done. Authority is breaking down in violent hot spots across the country as cops back off. Cries of "overpolicing" black urban areas has led to tragic underpolicing.

Baltimore residents complain of drug dealers walking down the street, openly firing guns in the air like the Wild West. The Los Angeles police chief says a resurgence in gang shootings has turned L.A. into Dodge City. In Charlotte, N.C., meanwhile, "people are just pulling out guns and shooting one another," the deputy police chief said.

FBI chief Comey is the keeper of the nation's crime records. He's hardly "cherry-picking" data, as Obama contends.

Police and prosecutors worked hard over the past 20 years to reduce our nation's violent crime rate to historic lows. Tough drug laws and aggressive policing made black urban neighborhoods in particular safer — and it was black politicians who demanded those laws.

Now in the name of racial justice, Obama is undoing all that, and the biggest victims are the victims of black-on-black crime.

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I guess we can call it the Obama crime wave.

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I think Obi wanted to advance racism, why I have no idea.
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I disagree, I think his objective is chaos.
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Why would he use racism to do it?
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Nov 5 2015, 07:01 AM
WaPo Belatedly Exonerates Cops: Vast Majority Of Police Shootings 'Justified'


The Washington Post has just conducted a massive survey of police shootings and found that — surprise, surprise! — virtually all of them are justified. Thanks. Now where do cops go to get back their reputations?

Certainly not the White House. It's claiming there's "no evidence" to support the FBI director's recent statements about a "Ferguson effect" hampering police work.

In fact, data show police morale and arrests are down in St. Louis, Baltimore, New York, Seattle and other cities where police are under siege, while crime is spiraling out of control.

A recent Justice Department investigation of the St. Louis County Police Department found no conclusive evidence of racial bias. It did find the number of police stops, searches and arrests of blacks in the county plunged last year after the Ferguson riots.

There were 1,918 fewer stops of black drivers in 2014 vs. 2013, and 624 fewer arrests. Policing in the black community fell to the lowest level in years.

The Ferguson effect is also supported by anecdotal evidence. In Birmingham, Ala., a white police officer allowed himself to be pistol-whipped unconscious by a black suspect, rather than fight back and risk being accused of racism.

Seeing its war on cops and soft-on-crime approach backfiring with surging crime rates, the White House is trying to cover its tracks by dismissing the alarming trend. The president himself has taken to the podium to pooh-pooh the link between cop-bashing and the national crime wave.

Obama even called FBI chief James Comey to the White House for an unscheduled meeting Thursday. No doubt the purpose was to get Comey to couch the truth of what's become an embarrassing political situation for the president and a crisis for the public.

But the Post has undercut Obama's main excuse for federalizing the nation's 18,000 police departments through "criminal justice reform."

The paper analyzed 800 fatal police shootings and found that in 74% of the cases, police pulled the trigger only after the suspect fired, brandished a gun or attacked someone. In 16% of the shootings, cops fired when the suspect acted in a dangerous and threatening manner, such as refusing to put down a knife.

In 5% of the cases, officers used force when the suspect refused to show his hands and made a sudden move that made them think he was reaching for a weapon. The Post said the justification for force in the remaining 5% of cases was undetermined.

So much for the myth racist cops are shooting people for no reason. But the damage is done. Authority is breaking down in violent hot spots across the country as cops back off. Cries of "overpolicing" black urban areas has led to tragic underpolicing.

Baltimore residents complain of drug dealers walking down the street, openly firing guns in the air like the Wild West. The Los Angeles police chief says a resurgence in gang shootings has turned L.A. into Dodge City. In Charlotte, N.C., meanwhile, "people are just pulling out guns and shooting one another," the deputy police chief said.

FBI chief Comey is the keeper of the nation's crime records. He's hardly "cherry-picking" data, as Obama contends.

Police and prosecutors worked hard over the past 20 years to reduce our nation's violent crime rate to historic lows. Tough drug laws and aggressive policing made black urban neighborhoods in particular safer — and it was black politicians who demanded those laws.

Now in the name of racial justice, Obama is undoing all that, and the biggest victims are the victims of black-on-black crime.

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I guess we can call it the Obama crime wave.

It is interesting that you are willing to allow some murders by police. How many would be considered to be too many?
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Why would he use racism to do it?

Because it works. With enough chaos he can start claiming he needs to continue to lead the country.
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If the investigations (there are often several) reveals that the officer involved shooting was criminal the officer is arrested and prosecuted. Because the family member or anti police activists believe that it was criminal doesn't make it so.

To answer your question, none.
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The sad part is that Obama is fanning the flames and the actual result is made up of two things:

1. Police are not patrolling like they were so the crime rate is going up in the very neighborhoods that need the patrolling the worse.

2. Police are getting killed.

I read (I don't remember where) that Obama wants to do away with all local police and replace them with a federal police force.

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