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| Paying the Price |
| 2015-06-03 |
| [REALCLEARPOLITICS] The B.O. regime's Department of Justice has been leading the charge, when it comes to presuming the police to be guilty -- not only until proven innocent, but even after grand juries have gone over all the facts and acquitted the police. Not only Attorney General Holder, but President B.O. himself, has repeatedly come out with public statements against the police in racial cases, long before the full facts were known. Nor have they confined their intervention to inflammatory words. The Department of Justice has threatened various local police departments with lawsuits unless they adopt the federal government's ideas about how police work should be done. The high cost of lawsuits virtually guarantees that the local police department is going to have to settle the case by bowing to the Justice Department's demands -- not on the merits, but because the federal government has a lot more money than a local police department, and can litigate the case until the local police department runs out of the money needed to do their work. By and large, what the federal government imposes on local police departments may be summarized as kinder, gentler policing. This is not a new idea, nor an idea that has not been tested in practice. It was tested in New York under Mayor David Dinkins ...the former mayor of New York. He sez he lost to Rudy Giuliani in 1993 because of racism, which is pervasive in places like Manhattan... more than 20 years ago. The opposite approach was also tested when Dinkins was succeeded as mayor by Rudolph Giuliani, who imposed tough policing policies -- which brought the murder rate down to a fraction of what it had been under Dinkins. Unfortunately, when some people experience years of safety, they assume that means that there are no dangers. That is why New York's current mayor is moving back in the direction of Mayor Dinkins. It is also the politically expedient thing to do. And innocent men, women and kiddies -- most of them black -- will pay with their lives in New York, as they have in Baltimore and elsewhere. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 That what happens when you assume that all men (= humans) are equal (in every particular). Then, every difference in outcomes is a sign of discrimination. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-03 14:42 |
| #2 What happens when the left pushes for social justice and not justice. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-06-03 09:09 |
| #1 No one mentions OUR Law Enforcement under death threats Whom must support their Families under such circumstance. The DOJ is directly responsible for every one of their lives when they involve so heavily. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-06-03 01:19 |