Before getting into the meat of this post, I want to start off by stating a fact: There is no “war on police” happening in America today. What is happening is a growing movement of people who want police accountability, profess a desire to reform the justice system so that we stop incarcerating people for the oxymoron of “victimless crimes,” and an end to the widespread thieving of the public without due process via a practice known as civil asset forfeiture.
I’ve covered these topics extensively over the years. Here are just a few examples:
The United States: 5% of the World’s Population, 25% of its Prisoners
Don’t Mess with Texas – Police Raid and Shutdown Lemonade Stand Run by 7 and 8-Year-Old Girls
Chart of the Day – America’s Prison Population Over the Past 100 Years
Denver Police Arrest “Jury Nullification” Activist for Passing Out Informational Pamphlets
The DEA Strikes Again – Agents Seize Man’s Life Savings Under Civil Asset Forfeiture Without Charges
Asset Forfeiture – How Cops Continue to Steal Americans’ Hard Earned Cash with Zero Repercussions
The public grievances listed earlier are reasonable demands which any civilized culture would insist upon. Nevertheless, many police departments across the country are taking these criticisms as part of some imagined “war on police” which simply doesn’t exist. Rather than showing even a sliver of introspection by looking inward at the mistakes policing has made in recent years, many officers are becoming defensive, combatant and have resorted to lies in order to dismiss the concerns of the public.
This is precisely what an Iraq war veteran witnessed recently while training at a police academy. He shared his story with the Daily Beast under the pseudonym Clayton Jenkins. Here are some excerpts:
The War on Cops is a grossly inaccurate response to recent police killings which are on track for another year that will rival the safest on record. Gunfire deaths by police officers are down 27 percent this year, according to the Officer Down memorial page, and police killings in general are at a 20-year low, given current numbers for 2015. Police deaths in Barack Obama’s presidency are lower than the past four administrations, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
Not a single iota of evidence supports a War on Police, but it has become a battle cry among some in the academy.
Over 80 percent of police departments in the United States are facing issues with low recruitment numbers. As an Iraq War veteran I sought to solidify my chance of employment working in law enforcement by attending a local police academy. I enjoyed serving my country as military police and will do such now as a sworn police officer back home.
What are they telling us in a post-Michael Brown academy? The culture of police brutality is infrequently addressed, but what is continually mentioned is the notion that there is a War on Police.
“The Obama Administration and Eric Holder are undermining the police. We have officers dying left and right and he’s dicking off in Alaska,” says one of my instructors, referring to the president’s trip to Alaska last week.
I understand as a law enforcement professional—and as someone capable of fairly reading mountains of data—that the Drug War has been unfairly used as a tool of oppression against the black community. It is why the American public overall has shown they have less confidence in police in recent times.
But there is no War on Police. This Us vs. Them mentality still prevails even in fresh academy cadets. Perhaps some of these people will become future jackbooted, truncheon wielding oppressors. Or perhaps they will encounter the reality that betrays the fear they are taught.
Now watch the following recruitment video for the Portsmouth, Virginia police department...
Meanwhile, a Portsmouth officer was recently indicted after fatally shooting 18-year-old William Chapman after he was caught shoplifting.
This looks like a scene from Gaza, not the America we imagine.
Please tell me. Who has declared war on who?
Is this the Buchenwald Oven Operator's reunion? Open wide, it's likely the cleanest thing your mouth will encounter or your family members for that matter. Someday you'll be dragged away. xxoo
Whatever happened to Sgt. Joe Friday?
the IDF are training our forces wel!! shalom everyone!!
But there is a war on police - by small groups of crazy citizens - just as there are a small number of crazy cops. You cannot say there is 'no' war when a cop gets whacked every couple of days. And yes, cops go the other way too - and too often.
But the real problem is that we are suffering a tremendous loss of liberty under the guise of 'protecting' us - but we do not feel protected!
So down voters endorse gunning down innocent cops filling up their cars at gas stations? They make my point - " small groups of crazy citizens"
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you were down voted becasue apparently data is a foreign concept top you. the numbers tell the truth.. cops arent getting gunned down, or whacked all that frequently. its bs.
I used to live in a burb of a large metropolitan city. All the cops were rude assholes, and the thieves thing I really get, because one stole some personal property out of my car, then tried to blame it on a tow truck driver. But there was just one thing wrong with that story: MY CAR WASN'T TOWED. He obviously had me confused with some other poor guy he stole from too. Anyway, I live in a small town now, where everybody knows everybody. The ONE officer that patrols the town is from here, that makes a huge difference. We call him by his first name. He is a friend to all {provided your not a criminal}. He is also an Oath Keeper. So is his boss the county Sheriff. You couldn't pay me to move back into a city. The difference is as stark as night and day.
Oh if only the cops would do this or wouldn't do that then there would be Utopia in the Black community!!!! Black men and women would marry and then have kids, black kids would do appreciate school and get better grades and eschew gang membership and black men wouldn't make up %50 of homicide victims, most killed by other black men.
Legalize drugs. But please, please don't expect the lower economic classes to start going to college or work at the supermarket. The problems in the black community are self-inflicted. They've traded any chance of upward mobility for a place on the Liberal Gov't Plantation and then they get jealous of other group's success, epecially immigrants that pass them by, and they blame Racism! instead of their own foolishness.
Oh if only the cops would do this or wouldn't do that then there would be Utopia in the Black community!!!! Black men and women would marry and then have kids, black kids would do appreciate school and get better grades and eschew gang membership and black men wouldn't make up %50 of homicide victims, most killed by other black men.
Legalize drugs. But please, please don't expect the lower economic classes to start going to college or work at the supermarket. The problems in the black community are self-inflicted. They've traded any chance of upward mobility for a place on the Liberal Gov't Plantation and then they get jealous of other group's success, epecially immigrants that pass them by, and they blame Racism! instead of their own foolishness.
"Blacks", aka, White trash.
White trash blames the "man" too!
What's the #Hashtag? #WLM?
White Trash don't make up 50% of murder victims killed by other whites and then run around yelling how much they "matter."
LOW IQ pigs are everywhere. Avoid them. They see everyone as an enemy. Why? Trained that way!
DWI checkpoint the other night. Short "half-cop" was nice enough and I didn't make a joke about his height. Some states the folks are just short so they lowered (ha-ha) the height requirements. Also lowered all the other standards too.
Fucked up in county "A"? The transfer to another county. Fixed!
Higher pay with higher standards. But the private prison corporatioin cunts would not allow it.
Not so good, don't those armored vehicles have du plates in them?
Mike,as usual you have your head up your ass. What is happening is the Black Menace is looking for a freer pass to terrorize whites. Now that they have the backing of a black President and a negrophillic media they think they can achieve the goal. But as the Black Menace is being shot down by right to carry gun owners the movement is begining to wane.
I have respected mike kreigers views in the past. However he has obviously jumped the shark on this and several posts as of late.
To not observe the war on police By his administration is to be ignorant at best. Michael "the gentle giant" Brown is a prime exams of the govt and the medias war on police/. There is no objective look at the activities of CRIMINALS who behave in CRIMINAL activity deserve the justice they have been incarcerated for.
There are abuses by police but out of the 300 million peoe in this country, to highlight a few to illustrate a "pattern" is to be willingly fooled into idiocy.
There are bad people of all kinds including police. However to not notice the attack on the civilian police force and the push to federalize them is to question Mr. kreiger' sand ZH's credibility as well as suspect them as propagandists.
You fargin iceholes!!
Mike Kreiger brought statistics. Real numbers. We know the media twists the truth about everything else, why do you think the police are getting worse when they are actually improving? The media paints it that way.
Porn for the control freak.
Police now days are indoctrinated to believe they are fighting a war against the population, all the military gear they strut around in only confirms the war in there own deluded paranoid minds, I know a few cops and they are always on edge as if fearing attack from the public at any time.
USSA's militarized death piggies, the best killers that Pentacon Kill Industries brought home from their global killing fields now serving the zero 1% locally in a slum you probably inhabit. No need to go to Iraq, Syria etc...it's coming to you!
Onward to the coming collapse we all deserve so much
Fat older cop aint gonna catch no young fitter criminal guy.
WTF do they feed those people?
He doesn't need to, he has a gun.
Get one of those "Fraternal Order of Police'' bumper or window stickers .
Will save you bucks and hassle.
Imagine what Tyler must think about Jewish cops?
If you are wondering where the recruitment video came from:
5 cops shot, 1 fatally in NH War on Drugs.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/hampshire-suspects-found-dead-police-chief-kill...
NH is as they say, the South of the North.
The police are fine
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The federal government will protect them
Part of the problem besides the fed program to transfer military arms to PDs is the fact that so many cops have served as what are essentially police forces in combat areas like Iraq and Afghanistan. They take a military view of the civilian population while armed with military weapons. Additionally, just toss in undiagnosed cases, mild or otherwise, of PTSD and what do you get?