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Despite Public Unity, Events Are Looking Good For A Postponement Of the November Third Elections
A new report shows how thin the line between police and right-wing militias can be. Former FBI special agent Michael German, writing for the The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, the non-partisan law and public policy institute, collected instances of law enforcement officers linked to white supremacist militant activities in more than a dozen states during the last two decades. He also found hundreds of officers who had posted bigoted or racist content on social media. German told The Guardian that the full scale of the problem is difficult to determine: “Nobody is collecting the data and nobody is actively looking for these law enforcement officers.” He advocates the creation of a Justice Department-led working group to study the issue and better screening mechanisms at the state and federal level.
Unfortunately, such a Justice Department study would not be permitted under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr.
Most recently, polling shows that a “polarized” nation agrees on many police reforms. New survey data from Arnold Ventures that was jointly conducted by Republican and Democratic firms found eleven policies with more than three-quarters support by voters across the political spectrum. Body camera mandates (91 percent support) and requiring the Department of Justice to investigate after lethal force (88 percent support) led the way.
Similar support was found concerning the establishment of “co-responder” teams that pair police with mental health professionals and social workers to handle calls about homeless persons, welfare checks, or drug use. The popularity of these programs presents an opportunity to rethink major components of how policing functions in the United States.
So, while the extreme right-wing press portrays the American public as hopelessly divided, the truth is, the vast majority of the public agree on many issues our politicians are unwilling to address, or, regularly defeat all such legislation proposed to settle these issues supported by the majority of Americans, but found to be obstructive to the agendas of special interest groups and major political contributors.
Anyone with a true desire to understand the inner workings of the current United States’ political system need only follow the money. It’s naive to believe voters have the power to stop the ruling billionaire class from a complete take-over of our government. A simple roll call of the impeached president trump’s appointments to Federal Agencies lists multiple billionaires.
With the expected chaos on November 3rd threatened by conservative groups and the GOP, the decision of which political party wins the White House will, again, be left up to the conservative majority of the Supreme Court, in the same manner as the 2000 presidential election. This ruling by the Court should put the impeached president trump well on his way to becoming president-for-life, while ending the United States’ democracy. There is apparently no one in a position of power willing to fight against the impeached president trump’s pursuit to become the United States’ first dictator.
https://www.arnoldventures.org/stor...ary-bipartisan-support-for-policing-reforms/
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Despite Public Unity, Events Are Looking Good For A Postponement Of the November Third Elections
A new report shows how thin the line between police and right-wing militias can be. Former FBI special agent Michael German, writing for the The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, the non-partisan law and public policy institute, collected instances of law enforcement officers linked to white supremacist militant activities in more than a dozen states during the last two decades. He also found hundreds of officers who had posted bigoted or racist content on social media. German told The Guardian that the full scale of the problem is difficult to determine: “Nobody is collecting the data and nobody is actively looking for these law enforcement officers.” He advocates the creation of a Justice Department-led working group to study the issue and better screening mechanisms at the state and federal level.
Unfortunately, such a Justice Department study would not be permitted under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr.
Most recently, polling shows that a “polarized” nation agrees on many police reforms. New survey data from Arnold Ventures that was jointly conducted by Republican and Democratic firms found eleven policies with more than three-quarters support by voters across the political spectrum. Body camera mandates (91 percent support) and requiring the Department of Justice to investigate after lethal force (88 percent support) led the way.
Similar support was found concerning the establishment of “co-responder” teams that pair police with mental health professionals and social workers to handle calls about homeless persons, welfare checks, or drug use. The popularity of these programs presents an opportunity to rethink major components of how policing functions in the United States.
So, while the extreme right-wing press portrays the American public as hopelessly divided, the truth is, the vast majority of the public agree on many issues our politicians are unwilling to address, or, regularly defeat all such legislation proposed to settle these issues supported by the majority of Americans, but found to be obstructive to the agendas of special interest groups and major political contributors.
Anyone with a true desire to understand the inner workings of the current United States’ political system need only follow the money. It’s naive to believe voters have the power to stop the ruling billionaire class from a complete take-over of our government. A simple roll call of the impeached president trump’s appointments to Federal Agencies lists multiple billionaires.
With the expected chaos on November 3rd threatened by conservative groups and the GOP, the decision of which political party wins the White House will, again, be left up to the conservative majority of the Supreme Court, in the same manner as the 2000 presidential election. This ruling by the Court should put the impeached president trump well on his way to becoming president-for-life, while ending the United States’ democracy. There is apparently no one in a position of power willing to fight against the impeached president trump’s pursuit to become the United States’ first dictator.
https://www.arnoldventures.org/stor...ary-bipartisan-support-for-policing-reforms/
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