There is more to the story. ==== 6/10/2020. WSJ Chicago has long been one of the nation’s most dangerous big cities, and it seems determined to keep that distinction. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 18 people were killed on one Sunday, May 31, “making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades.” Over the full weekend, “25 people were killed in... Read more
Archive for the ‘Policing’ Category
The Myth of Systemic Police Racism
June 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Policing, RacismThank you, Heather Mac Donald, for bring some clarity to this discussion with numbers. mrossol. ==== WSJ 6/3/2020 by Heather Mac Donald George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically,... Read more
I fear for america
June 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Policing, UnionsYes, there are racists in America. Always have been and always will be. But William Galston is likely closer to the truth in his analysis that there is something missing in American police organization that will not correctly address the “bad apples”, the bad cops who are the cause of an extremely high percentage of the problems. And if the... Read more
Anarchy in Portland – WSJ
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Policing, The LeftHard to believe this one. ====== WSJ 8/4/2018 Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had... Read more
The FBI is Politicized
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Law, Losing Freedom, Policing, US ConstitutionThis article is a ‘must read’. ===== The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 25, 2018, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department... Read more
October 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Obama, Policing, The Left
Please, don’t confuse me with the facts… ============ WSJ 10/24/2016 By Heather Mac Donald FBI Director James Comey has again defied the official White House line on policing and the Black Lives Matter movement. The “narrative that policing is biased and violent and unfair” is resulting in “more dead young black men,” Mr. Comey warned in an Oct. 16 address to the International... Read more
