J. Soden brought this Bill O’Reilly Video to our attention a few days ago. Video was posted to Real Clear Politics. The link includes the following useful statistics and analysis:
Bill O’Reilly: First, the stats – and they are stunning.
Since the Ferguson chaos, murders in the USA’s 50 largest cities are up close to 17% — and much higher in cities with large black populations.
In Chicago this year alone, shootings are up around 80%.
Why? Because the Chicago police have stopped stopping suspicious people.
So-called “pedestrian stops” are down 90% in the Windy City.
When you fail to police pro-actively, people commit more crimes.
The media will not spotlight that much of the violent crime in America is being committed by young black men.
In fact, black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at a rate 10-times higher than white and Hispanic male teenagers combined.
And blacks of all ages commit homicide at a rate eight times higher than whites and Hispanics combined.
Conclusion – there is a violent sub-culture in the African-American community that should be exposed and confronted.
Enter the Black Lives Matter crew, which roams around the country promoting a false narrative that American police officers are hunting down and killing blacks.
Here’s the truth:
Police shot whites at a rate of 50% in 2015.
Police shot blacks at a rate of 26%.
In addition, Black Lives Matter is now infringing on freedom of assembly and freedom of expression.
In Chicago at DePaul University this happened Tuesday night:
((Black Lives Matter Protesters Interrupt DePaul University Event))
So there is no question that Black Lives Matter is affecting the United States.
A new book by Heather Mac Donald entitled “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe,” starkly lays out the threat from the radical group, which openly attacks CompStat — a policy placing officers where violent crime is taking place.
Here’s a quote from Ms. Mac Donald:
“In terms of economic stimulus alone, no other government program has come close to the success of [CompStat]. In New York City, businesses that had shunned previously drug-infested areas now set up shop there, offering residents a choice in shopping and creating a demand for workers. … Children could ride their bikes on city sidewalks without their mothers worrying that they would be shot. But the crime victories of the last two decades, and the moral support on which law and order depends, are now in jeopardy thanks to the falsehoods of the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Summing up, thousands more Americans are being murdered because police are now more passive since the Ferguson situation and the Black Lives Matter protests.
Talking Points believes every American should know the truth.
Sympathetic media and many race hustlers are backing Black Lives Matter.
The final indignity? Members of the group have even been invited to the White House.
We have spent the last eight years throwing darts and setting up roadblocks to address problems real and imagined. It’s time to turn the page and begin to face the real problems we have so they can be appropriately addressed. In order to do that we need leadership that doesnlt follow the same old tired leftist playbook. Dividing the nation into special groups undermines the constitutional promise of equal treatment under the law and creates an atmosphere of animosity and resentment. Dividing the nation into special interest needs creates an atmosphere in which the government picks winners and losers. We have no business making our police forces a target wherein being a “loser” might mean death by sniper.
This is absolutely awful. In terms of helpful things we could do to reduce crime, reforming law enforces must surely rank way down the list. We will never have perfection from law enforcement. This is a business that requires split second decisions to be made under stressful conditions. To expect perfection is unrealistic. But, isn’t that what BLM movement is pushing for?
Refused, most of us here agree.
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Not perfection. Improvement is necessary, however. Taser policy wants work, for a start. A big guy who does not want to be arrested is tough enough to deal with. A big guy coursing adrenaline in response to taser fire is very, very much more difficult to deal with. (It may indeed be necessary to shoot him … but six, sixteen times?)
Maybe we need to revert to old fashioned methodology and just pay for the torn rotator cuffs, because it is Prop 13 provoked, civic tight-fistedness, a refusal to fund cop disabilities, that prompted the adoption of the taser. (That, and the fact that guys love their toys.)
But are you all willing to discuss any of this sort of thing?
No.
Libby, the bigoted sexist. Why am I not surprised?
Very constructive, Pie. Your typically thoughtful contribution.
Less constructive than your snotty, sexist, bigoted statement “That, and the fact that guys love their toys” Libby? As well as the rest of the ripe you posted?
Go pound sand.
So sensitive. Who would have thought?
There you go with your prop 13 yammer.
Had prop 13 been defeated no one in California (no one but the 1%) would have a home. The taxes on homes were scheduled to go through the roof. Your solution to problems, always more money, is no solution at all.
Nobody “refused to fund cop disabilities.”
I’d discuss “this sort of thing” if you showed any real desire to address the problems or move off of decades old thinking. You think money is the answer. It hasn’t been the answer in more than fifty years.
It is not a “yammer”. It is a criticism of the simple-minded American’s insistence on having civic services without paying for them. It a an observation of 40 years of civic degradation. You have examples of something else, let’s hear them. Tell us what, besides money, is going to fund cop disabilities?
Re Libby “It a an observation of 40 years of civic [services] degradation.”
That is one twisted, insane, absolutely false world you live in.
Are you talking about the cop in Chicago that is charged with murder? Nothing to see there. Cop goes off his rocker after confronting violent black male and now he’s charged with murder. This is justice. The system isn’t broken when you reach for anomalies, there’s bound to be a few anomalies every year. What is surprising is given how many cops interact with criminals and black criminals in particular is how few there are! Today’s law enforcement is one of the cleanest professions ever to exist in America, this system is working better than anyone has a right to expect, especially given the level of violence that is directed at them and the abuse they must take from the black community, with certain exceptions noted. Many intelligent and informed black people get it, that its their community that needs the overhaul – not the police.
Some day, maybe when you are hit by a bolt of lightening or something like that, you may wake up to reality and share my opinions about this situation. I won’t hold my breath….
“Today’s law enforcement is one of the cleanest professions ever to exist in America.”
True.
But there is room for improvement. Thirty-seven dead black men in Louisiana is not an anomaly, it’s a problem that needs attention.
BLM is not about justice, it is not about truth, it is not about equality under the law, it is not about solving problems, it is not about law, order, or a civil society.
It is about radical agitation and inspiring violence and division. It is the left. It is the Democrat party.
I would venture to guess that a significant majority of blacks are not as stupid as BLM and similar agitators think they are.
“Policeman” by Paul Harvey —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUUZ2fKVqcs
Addenda to the above …
By the way, it is my understanding that Paul Harvey originally penned that radio essay in 1970. There is nothing new under the sun. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Actually I did check it out Pie…just been busy at work and at home. I love paul Harvey and this was a particularly good piece…thanks for sharing it.
I am surprised that no one has, evidently, checked out the Paul Harvey link above. It speaks for me and I thought it may speak for others.
Nevertheless , more on BLM …
Black Lives Matter: A Movement Built on Lies
So. Will hot August nights come early this year?
Fearless reader to the families of dead police officers in Dallas—
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/12/president-obama-in-dallas-these-protests-might-be-messy-police-might-get-hurt/
The next round—
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/day-of-rage-protests-are-scheduled-for-july-15th-in-these-american-cities-07112016
Disgusting, isn’t it?
From else where on the web—
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What happened to Micah Johnson?
“An open question with regard to the Dallas sniper has to do with his motivation.
IMO we need to know how this man who is variously described as having been; goofy, a clown, interested mainly in his Engineer Corps duties as a carpenter and mason in an Engineer Corps Army Reserve construction unit became an enraged Black nationalist who “hated white people.”
How did that happen? This is not the usual trajectory of development for Army Reserve or National Guard soldiers. These part timers normally become quite attached to and indeed rather maudlin about their units and comrades.
So, what happened? The idiot MSM does not seen interested in this. They prefer to go weepy and wet over the funerals instead of finding out WHY this man went bad. Their reaction is just about as brainless about this as was their fascination with the hunt for the particular “guilty alligator” at the Disney resort in Florida. Apparently any shiny object can hold their attention. Ben Rhodes is right. They are ignorant, uneducated and easily led.
My own theory of the case is that there was something wrong about the way an accusation of sexual harassment was made about him in Afghanistan and then the way some officer or officers handled the case.
IMO it is quite possible that an ambitious officer or officers covered his/their ass by dropping the hammer on this guy.
That would do it. pl”
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Link–
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/07/what-happened-to-micah-johnson.html
Oh, and the notion of Bill O’Reilly as venerable sage is wildly amusing. Bill O’Reilly is a gasbag, a sexually harassing and bigoted gasbag, who makes his living pushing your buttons.
Why you let him is beyond me.