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A community agitator that doesn't hate cops is a rarity! Donald IS THE LAW and ORDER candidate!
city-journal.org ^ | Heather MacDonald
President Obamaās relentless accusations that cops are lethally biased, his embrace of Black Lives Matter, and the mediaās amplification of that mendacious movementās lies about the police have led to the drop in proactive enforcement and the resulting increase in crime. Trumpās recognition of the role that official rhetoric plays in determining facts on the ground is sophisticated. And his unapologetic alarum about the rising threat to law and order signified by the deliberate attacks on police officers is welcome.
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If on-duty deaths remain rare, so do police shootings of unarmed black males. In fact, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. And the fact that ā2016ās increase in gunfire deaths so far came after decades of declineā is precisely what makes the increase so striking. That it reverses decades of decline is not a point in Black Lives Matterās favor.
Not enough attention has been paid to the portent that is this yearās string of attacks on police officersānot only in Dallas and Baton Rouge but also in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan, Chicago, and Tennessee. We could be seeing the start of not just a war on cops, but more widespread racial violence.
Trumpās speech was a bold and important shift in the prevailing discourse about policing and crime. It couldnāt have represented a sharper distinction from the Obama-Clinton message, relentlessly delivered, that our criminal justice system and our nationās police are infected with racial bias. Trump is absolutely right that law and order is at stake. The elites hear ālaw and orderā rhetoric as code words for racism. They are the ones, however, who are turning their eyes away from the black bodies piling up...
city-journal.org ^ | Heather MacDonald
President Obamaās relentless accusations that cops are lethally biased, his embrace of Black Lives Matter, and the mediaās amplification of that mendacious movementās lies about the police have led to the drop in proactive enforcement and the resulting increase in crime. Trumpās recognition of the role that official rhetoric plays in determining facts on the ground is sophisticated. And his unapologetic alarum about the rising threat to law and order signified by the deliberate attacks on police officers is welcome.
*snip*
If on-duty deaths remain rare, so do police shootings of unarmed black males. In fact, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. And the fact that ā2016ās increase in gunfire deaths so far came after decades of declineā is precisely what makes the increase so striking. That it reverses decades of decline is not a point in Black Lives Matterās favor.
Not enough attention has been paid to the portent that is this yearās string of attacks on police officersānot only in Dallas and Baton Rouge but also in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan, Chicago, and Tennessee. We could be seeing the start of not just a war on cops, but more widespread racial violence.
Trumpās speech was a bold and important shift in the prevailing discourse about policing and crime. It couldnāt have represented a sharper distinction from the Obama-Clinton message, relentlessly delivered, that our criminal justice system and our nationās police are infected with racial bias. Trump is absolutely right that law and order is at stake. The elites hear ālaw and orderā rhetoric as code words for racism. They are the ones, however, who are turning their eyes away from the black bodies piling up...
