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The hypocrisy of American police is beginning to bother even law and order conservatives. The New York Police Department is rivaling the black community in Ferguson in keeping alive the murders of their community members.
We are constantly reminded of how dangerous it is to be a police officer. A total of 50 police officers were reportedly killed last year in the “line of duty,” but the police themselves managed to kill 1,029 Americans during the same time period, most of whom were unarmed and innocent of wrongdoings.
In other words, any encounter between the public and the police is more than 20 times more dangerous for the public than for the police.
That should raise questions about the absence of restraint on the ability of police to use deadly force as a first resort. Yet authorities and white communities invariably defend police violence against the public.
If Americans had half-decent educations, Americans would know that power comes from precedent. The police, like the executive branch, have now established themselves above the law. The laws that apply to the public do not apply to police, US presidents, presidential appointees, NSA, and CIA.
The URL below provides two short videos of Montana police officer Grant Morrison shooting to death in separate incidents two unarmed drivers pulled over by Morrison in routine traffic stops. In both cases, Morrison’s first actions are to scream obscenities and pull the trigger. Morrison comes across as completely crazed. It is inexplicable that Montana permits an armed lunatic to roam the streets pulling over cars. You try doing that.
Clearly the police are privileged and, thereby, unaccountable.
According to news reports, during eight years of what is called the Iraq War more US citizens were murdered by the police than US soldiers were killed in the war. In other words, US police are a greater threat to Americans than enemy forces are to US soldiers who have invaded a foreign country.
The other day I heard a NY police commissioner on NPR defend the NY police violence against Eric Garner that resulted in Garner’s death. The police commissioner said that Garner more or less brought on his own death by not quickly cooperating with police orders. When asked if selling single cigarettes out of a pack was a sufficiently dangerous act to justify police use of prohibited choke holds, the commissioner said Garner’s single cigarette sales were depriving NY City of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues that could be used for more and better schools and hospitals.
I was surprised to learn that selling “loosies” was a billion dollar business. Somehow that seems about as hard to believe as everything else authorities tell us.
Other countries manage to have police forces that do not indiscriminately gun down their citizens. Yet most Americans will support the police until it happens to them, but keep in mind that every time you get in your car you have placed yourself in far greater danger from police than you face from terrorists.
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TIME FOR CITIES AND STATE LEGISLATORS TO STEP IN TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC OF POLICE ABUSE.
This is another great article by the great Sir Paul Roberts. Most of the victims of police abuse are innocent whites who are killed, framed, illegally arrested and white women blackmailed and asked to go out or receive tickets, or face arrest. It is the police gangsters who impose the criminal state USA on the people, arrest whites and patriots and conservatives for merely speaking out. They kill, they kidnap and hold hostage (i.e. false arrest/imprisonment), lie and frame innocent people all the time.
Recently, a white unarmed man was killed by police thugs when he tried to bring a stray cat or dog to an animal shelter:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-killed-police-showing-id-turning-stray-cat-animal-shelter/
There are 100’s more examples of police abuse on:
Policestateusa.com
which shows most victims are white.The media turned Ferguson into a race issue and the conservatives fell into the trap.
It is time for legislators to enact strict laws to curtail this police abuse which is out of control. Here are some laws I recommend that every state and county must enact. So please write to your legislator and demand the following:
a) No arrest without a warrant except for violent crimes committed in the officers presence or when the suspect is planning to flee.
b) No hearsay allowed for probable cause (except by biological parents in the case of children abused by 3rd parties).
c) No SWAT teams unless evidence of an armed group.
d) Make resisting arrest a crime only when arrestee uses extreme violence. Merely trying to pull away or push back or trying to run away are normal physiological reactions and defense mechanisms of any normal human being.
e) Disturbing the peace should be a crime only when violence or physical aggression is used.
f) Police should be monitored by independent citizens boards.
Immediate suspension without pay for any police or DCS (who are children’s police) in the event of any complaint of assault, trespass or any illegal act by them until the matter is INDEPENDENTLY investigated.
g) Internal Affairs must be a separate independent agency—most internal affairs are sham units often covering up police and other agency misconduct.
h) 20 year statute of limitations for civil rights violations by police.
i) No military grade weapons. All which are freely donated will be sent to a smelting factory to recycle the metal and burn all electronics.
Police can only carry handguns, no more.
j) All police must wear a camera helmet and have dashcam. They cannot contact private citizens or enter private property without video taping the entire encounter, a copy of which will be available to the citizen on request. No evidence of wrong doing against police and no waiver of rights allowed unless proven by video evidence, as police are liars.
Contacting citizens or entering private property without a dashcam is a felony.
k) Double penalties for police (or DCS workers, who are basically children’s police) who break the law. Mandatory prosecution of police (and DCS gangsters) involved in illegal acts or brutality. If not prosecuted, special prosecutors can be appointed, or a private lawyer can start a criminal prosecution of police and DCS gangsters and civil rights penalties can be assessed against the state also for failure to prosecute.
Time to stop police and DCS gang terror. Time for local, state and federal governments to step in.
Good comments Mark, You are right on!
Both Paul C. Roberts and ‘Mark’ are right on the money. I doubt much will change any time soon, however.
How many people do the police kill who are cooperative and listen to police? That’s right, zero.
Its so simple. Just cooperate with police. The moment you don’t, things become ambiguous and you can get hurt. Of course.
Most Americans are unconcerned because they know nothing will happen to them if they simply cooperate with police. It’s an utter non-problem for most Americans. For most Americans interacting with police is a million times safer than fighting in Iraq – what a joke to say otherwise.
I live in NYC, and I want my police to be aggressive and violent towards the underclass. Its utterly necessary. Articles like these will bring back the bad old days of crime and violence. Most Americans have nothing to fear from police – cooperation will eliminate ANY chance of anything bad happening – but we have lots to fear from a violent underclass.
What a tendentious article.
“…but the police themselves managed to kill 1,029 Americans during the same time period, most of whom were unarmed and innocent of wrongdoings.”
I won’t argue with the 1,029 figure although you fail to source it. However, as someone who has done a lot of professional research involving US crime statistics and their sources, I’m really curious how you determined that most of these homicides involved unarmed individuals who were not committing or had not committed a crime. Also you later describe all these homicides as murders. That’s definitely wrong. You’re adding smoke to an already murky situation.
As long as I’ve been alive the cops have been big-time moochers and spongers. They’ve always been looking to get free meals wherever they eat or at the very least a “police discount” on anything else such as gym memberships, haircuts, you name it. With overtime a lot of them make fairly good money and have second homes elsewhere complete with snowmobiles and waterskiing vehicles. Many also moonlight at other jobs or have a business on the side. Yet they have organizations that are always seeking donations for them. They can retire while still in their 50’s and often then work at a subsequent job collecting two checks. If married a lot also have spouses on the government payroll. Another thing is that they’re the biggest union people of all, having a strong and active union, yet pretend they’re not and support anti-union politicians who usually take care to exempt their union from any subsequent anti-union actions.
John, wipe your chin, you have some cop on it. It is not up to me to cooperate with the police, they work for me. It is up to them to cooperate with me.
John expressed a coherent opinion. You replied with a crude insult and an inanity. Go ahead and order the cop to drop his weapon and get on the ground the next time you feel disrespected by one of your private employees, the cops.
You couldn’t be more right, Chris.
I don’t think John has heard of Civil Forfeiture laws, either. As unconstitutional as these laws are, the police abuse them even further by lying about drugs and money found in the cars. I even saw a video of cop laughing as he testified about this, openly admitting his and others’ abuse. Much of this confiscated money and the cars and other valuable items are kept by the police for their own use.
Never call the police for any reason. Stay as far away from them as possible. They are all bad apples.
You are misquoting, or at least misinterpreting, Chris, David.
If you re-read his comment, you will understand that Chris was expressing what he and many liberty-oriented people believe–that in a free society sovereign people have rights that cannot be abused by police. He was not advocating that we commit suicide as you intimate.
Of course, we do not live in a free society. We live in a society where the police treat us all worse than serfs. John seems to accept this as normal and perfectly all right: Obey the master and you can eventually crawl away, thankful that you’re still alive and in one piece, but perhaps a few thousand dollars poorer because of those “nasty” Civil Forfeiture laws.
Just watch any of hundreds or more of videos of police abuse of innocent people and perhaps you may understand.
I found John’s advice to be both crude and insulting. The cops work for the citizens. They have no powers that we the citizens do not also have, it is called delegated authority. You cannot delegate a power that you do not have. Cops owe respect and all deference to citizens, not the other way around.
I agree that we have rights that police should respect and all too often don’t. But the object pronoun Chris used was singular. Politics isn’t a slur, its a process of debating and approximating optimal solutions to communal problems not dealt with by “rights,” and the root of politics is poly, many. Like how are we going to protect the many from the few bad apples. Chris’s stance is as simplistic and unprincipled as that of the overweening cops. His language is intended to provoke conflict, conflict unlikely to lead to a society that guards individual rights better than what we have now.
A few weeks ago I got my first speeding ticket in years. I was appalled by the cop’s attempts to intimidate, to interrogate, to elicit submission. After running my papers, he came back to the car with his pen still hovering over blanks intended to record my speed and the size of the fine — he still wanted me to ask him for mercy! I hate people like this, I hate the authority they hold. But when I am stopped on the side of the road, that’s not the time to whine about it.
The whole truth from my side is that I don’t see a political solution to the mess we find ourselves in. I’d like to maximize the number of cooperative and informed partners available to restart a constitutional republic, one where the cops work for us.
“Politics isn’t a slur, its a process of debating and approximating optimal solutions to communal problems not dealt with by “rights,” and the root of politics is poly, many.”
There can be no political debate unless we know before any debate begins what rights we possess; not rights given or loaned to us by the state, but rights which inhere to us by virtue of our humanity. Among our many rights is the right to travel freely, unmolested by any authority of the state, unless we have committed a crime by abusing the rights of others. There can be no honest, political debate about that right as much as the state ignores that right.
Chris says it better than I in his reply to you above: “The cops work for the citizens. They have no powers that we the citizens do not also have, it is called delegated authority. You cannot delegate a power that you do not have. Cops owe respect and all deference to citizens, not the other way around.” The two videos referenced by PCR demonstrate a power the police in a free society do not have, but have subsumed as part of the despotism with which we are confronted. Chris understands this. It was obvious that John does not.
Yes, Chris could have been more “politic” in his comment to John, but after these many years of abuse by police, and criminality at all levels of our government, it can be very frustrating to encounter a man who is blind to this reality.
“Politics isn’t a slur, its a process of debating and approximating optimal solutions to communal problems not dealt with by “rights,” and the root of politics is poly, many. Like how are we going to protect the many from the few bad apples.”
As a relatively unimportant aside, I’ve just investigated the word “politics.” According to my online dictionary it derives from Latin via Greek from politicos from polites citizen, from polis city, not form the prefix “poly” or many.
“I’d like to maximize the number of cooperative and informed partners available to restart a constitutional republic, one where the cops work for us.”
So would I.
You’re right. An actual college professor told me that Poly is the root of Polis and I still partly believe it because the association of “many” with a city is kind of obvious. But my big Liddell and Scott says nothing to support the claim. Thanks for the correction.