Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
For once in their lives, Democrats have a police issue in which the cannot play the race card. But they have no answer to police misconduct and violence that isn't about race.
But the GOP has the answer and has had all along. The answer to violent crime is to enforce the law and lock violent criminals up for long stretches, preferably until they are dead or too old to hurt anyone. The GOP needs to get out front and say that they fully expect that to be applied to police equally, if not more so.
If it is capital murder to kill a police officer on duty - and it should be - it should also be capital murder for a police officer to kill a civilian under color of law for any other reaon but self-defense. Self-defense not to be defined as "I couldn't see his hand so he might have had a gun."
Bad policing needs to be stopped by strong state-level investigators dedicated to finding police who break the law and violate people's rights while on duty. Every state should have such an investigative organization, its agents drawn from the best officers with the cleanest records in local police departments.
Federal involvement? Sure. Just print some of that money and give it to those state agencies so they can hire enough agents and prosecutors to make police be less willing to beat suspects and expect the thin blue line to protect them.
But the GOP has the answer and has had all along. The answer to violent crime is to enforce the law and lock violent criminals up for long stretches, preferably until they are dead or too old to hurt anyone. The GOP needs to get out front and say that they fully expect that to be applied to police equally, if not more so.
If it is capital murder to kill a police officer on duty - and it should be - it should also be capital murder for a police officer to kill a civilian under color of law for any other reaon but self-defense. Self-defense not to be defined as "I couldn't see his hand so he might have had a gun."
Bad policing needs to be stopped by strong state-level investigators dedicated to finding police who break the law and violate people's rights while on duty. Every state should have such an investigative organization, its agents drawn from the best officers with the cleanest records in local police departments.
Federal involvement? Sure. Just print some of that money and give it to those state agencies so they can hire enough agents and prosecutors to make police be less willing to beat suspects and expect the thin blue line to protect them.