Forty years of progressive policy have brought us to this point...but it's a police problem!
Just so we get this fact clear going forward...
YOU folks on the right are supporting GOVERNMENT over individuals and over people.
However you want to twist it, that is an irrefutable FACT...
The history of mankind has been a struggle between those who want to increase freedom, opportunity and rights to all people and those who want to restrict them. The people who have always fought to increase freedom, opportunity and rights are liberals. The people who have fought to restrict them are conservatives.
The population of Ferguson is 60% black. The police force is 94% white. That alone says a great deal. The people and the cops do not have a positive, healthy working relationship. It is really the responsibility of the police force to create a good environment, and they clearly have not done so.
"It is the responsibility of the police force to create a good environment, and they have clearly not done so."
Police are not responsible for creating "environments", Esmerelda...they are responsible for enforcing the law. When someone does what Michael Brown DID it's the responsibility of the police to enforce the law that protects that convenience store owner from strong arm robbery.
Let's be honest here...who's really responsible for the "environment" in Ferguson, Missouri? Is it the police force...or is it the citizens of Ferguson? This notion that "training" of the police to respond in a different manner is going to fix things is so laughably naive that I'm embarrassed for those who put it forward. Michael Brown is dead today because of choices that
HE made...not because of choices the Ferguson Police made.
HE woke up that morning and decided that he'd rob the local convenience store and bully the clerk.
HE decided that after robbing that store he would walk down the center of the street and ignore a request from a police officer to get on the sidewalk.
HE decided to reach into that police officer's car and assault the policeman.