On December 31, 2017 an article by Lauren Frayer appeared on the NPR website entitled, Baltimore Residents Blame Record-High Murder Rate On Lower Police Presence saying:
"For the third year in a row, Baltimore, Md., has had more than 300 murders, reaching a new record of murders per number of residents in 2017.Some residents attribute the high murder rate to relaxed police patrols in the city following high-profile cases of police brutality. Officers have backed off in neighborhoods, like the one where Freddie Gray was arrested."Frayer interviews "the Rev. Kinji Scott, a pastor in Baltimore who's held positions in local city government, says the opposite needs to happen" who says:
"we wanted the police there," [and] "we wanted them engaged in the community."Then the other side of his mouth opens as he says:
"We didn't want them beating the hell out of us, we didn't want that."The article goes on telling us the pastor is one of a number of activists in Baltimore who are wanting police reform and wants front line police officers to be in the forefront of this discussion, because that will decrease crime. So how is this talking out of both sides of his mouth?
First off, he starts with this "reform" clabber. What's that mean? Who has to "reform", the police or the community? Generally, I've found it means the community reforms the police into less enforcement, not more.
When does the community have to start reforming? When will members of the black community start cooperating with police? A crime is committed, there are multiple witnesses - and no one cooperates, no one comes forward and identifies the perpetrator.
Exactly what kind of police reform will fix that?
The pastor claims only "our progressives, our activists, our liberal journalists, our politicians" were against the police, not the community as a whole, and he and his group want to create a relationship between the police and the community because "we didn't want them beating the hell out of us, we didn't want that."
Okay, so what's wrong with all of that? If the community didn't want progressives, activists, liberal journalists and politicians representing them at that time, I can certainly understand that - but I have a question: When did they stand up and say so?
They don't want the police "beating the hell out of us", and I ask: Why do the police ever beat up anyone? Oh, I agree there's been abuses, but those are exceptions and even then - the person was beaten after being arrested for committing a crime.
It's been my experience in life the police don't generally go around and start beating someone up for kicks. They end up beating someone up because they're thugs and criminals who are fighting the police.
He goes on to say: "I lost my brother in St. Louis in 2004; just lost my cousin in Chicago. No it's not unique, and that's the horrible thing", and I agree, but he fails to explain how that happened? Who did it? What were they doing?
This clabber about Obama's thrust "to focus on building relationships with police departments and major cities where there had been a history of conflict" hasn't happened because it was just more feel good leftist babble coming out of both sides of their mouth - and make no mistake about this - front line officers whose lives are on the line absolutely know it.
Where is the real effort to address the reason there's a problem in cities that have a history of conflict between the community and the police in the first place? Remember - those are the communities committing the crimes. If you're living in a city with a huge criminal element why wouldn't you expect to see a history of conflict with the police in those cities?
The article states the police are distancing themselves from a community that's in the most need of police protection, but it's also the community least willing to make the changes within itself to make the police want to step up into the line of fire for them.
What cop wants to put his life on the line for a community that will start throwing rocks at him while he's arresting thugs and criminals? What cop wants to go into an apartment building to arrest someone who's beating their wife, selling drugs, running a prostitution ring and find the people in the building start attacking them? Where are these "reformers" when that happens? When will they stand up to these progressives, activists, liberal journalists and politicians and tell the mob burning down their community what they're doing is all wrong and must stop?
Yes, the black community is bleeding to death, but whose fault is that? It's not the police who need reformed. It's the community. Do you want a real fix? Here it is!
Start with fixing the illegitimacy problem, and that will be a really excellent first step in fixing the education problem, the employment problem, the drug problem, the violence problem and when those "reforms" take effect and blacks stop committing crimes at the obscene level that exists now - and that will end the police problem.
The Rev. Kinji Scott didn't say one word about that!
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