The War on Cops: The Biden administration, and Democrats nationwide, are proposing “solutions” to non-problems.
To borrow a phrase, “A solution that won’t work, to a problem we don’t have.”
A week ago a senile man addressed the Congress. I shouldn’t say “addressed,” he read words written by someone for him to read from a Teleprompter. Par for the course, he’s been stealing other people’s words and accomplishments for decades.
Being an active peace office and taking an interest in what is happening after Tyre Nichols, I reviewed Mr. Biden’s comments:
I know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people — the vast majority. But they risk — and they risk their lives every time they put that shield on.
But what happened to Tyre in Memphis happens too often.
We have to do better.
Give law enforcement the real training they need, hold them to higher standards, help them succeed in keeping us safe.
We also need more first responders and professionals to address the growing mental health substance abuse challenges.
More resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime, more community intervention programs, more investments in housing, education and job training.
Like most things this mental invalid says, he can’t tell us the full truth, e.g., the rich paying their “fair share.” Dirty Joe never tells what that is. How many times does an incident like this happen? The man is implying minorities are being butchered by rogue cops daily because the police are not properly “trained.”
I would ask Mr. Biden what “training” is needed to prevent what happened to Tyre Nichols? I don’t know the details of the training manual for the Memphis Police Department, but I’ll take a bet charging a car over a traffic stop is not part of it. The actions taken after the officers rushed the car and pulled Mr. Nichols out are illegal under current law. Otherwise the officers would be pending trial for multiple felonies.
In reference to the need to “address the growing mental health substance abuse challenges,” as I can determine Mr. Nichols was not in mental health crisis. Again, the actions by the officers are illegal under these circumstances and current law, and accepted procedures for handing people in crisis. If anything I would say this shows the officers needed supervision more than another federal mandated training program or court order.
I almost snorted my beer out when I read (no, I did not watch it, I’m an intellectual masochist but I can only endure so much) in the speech “help them succeed in keeping us safe.” His, and the Obama administration before him, have declared war on law enforcement from day one.
“Consent decrees and underlying pattern and practice investigations are one of the most powerful tools any administration has to address policing issues,” said Kristy Parker, a veteran of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who now works at the nonprofit legal group Protect Democracy.
Forgive me if I show a disturbing lack of faith in the abilities and intentions of the federal Department of Justice. Two words, Ruby Ridge. Another word, Waco. One more recent word, Houston.
When I hear a politician say “investments,” I roll my eyes and check my wallet. He’s just using the latest crisis of the week to justify billions we don’t have for programs that won’t work. Joe, the biggest investment to reduce crime, especially gun crime, is to take the criminal, put him in prison, and to borrow another phrase, “If you don’t throw away the key, loose it for a long time.” That won’t happen, the Democrats (national, state and local) have no interest in enforcing the law.
In summary, Biden is continuing his predecessor’s effort to obstruct or federalize local law enforcement, using one example out of 61 million yearly interactions (e.g., traffic stops, stops on the street, etc.) a year as justification. Using that as a standard, Congress needs to defund the FBI, ATF, and DEA. I don’t see that happening, and hopefully these threats made by Biden’s handlers stay only threats.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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What they mean by training, especially for cops, firefighters and many other public servants, is Diversity,Equity and Inclusion, CRT and whatever doesn’t get in the way of their takeover. That Soros inspired plan for electing DAs who won’t prosecute crimes tells what they are up to. During that incident in Memphis, I heard them say that the cops needed more training, but what they meant was more indoctrination, because if they hired good people, the existing training would have been fine. Those cops who murdered Tyre were street thugs.
The only laws they want enforced are the ones they will pass after they have seized control, wreck the Constitution and have established themselves as our masters. Everything they do points only to that.
“What they mean by training, especially for cops, firefighters and many other public servants, is Diversity,Equity and Inclusion, CRT and whatever doesn’t get in the way of their takeover…”
Exactly.
At one such session I was forced to attend, they showed us a video of a criminal giving his opinion of officers in general, as if it was something we didn’t know. I pointed out that it certainly wasn’t unknown to officers who made arrests, as just about every time the handcuffs went on an offender and they went into the back seat of the car, they all started spewing the same thing.
I suggested that if the trainers wished to perform a public service, they should interview working officers about their thoughts on the “managers” in law enforcement who thought such training was useful, and then show those tapes to executive staff.
Unfortunately, they did not take me up on the offer.