Yes, 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
Archive for the ‘Policing’ Category
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
Ambivalent about Crime
August 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Policing, TrumpOne of the primary roles of government is the safety of its people. =========== WSJ 8/18/2016 Richard Nixon, law and order’s most famous practitioner, used the reality of domestic unrest to defeat Hubert Humphrey in the annus horribilis, 1968. President George W. Bush persuaded voters in 2004 that John Kerry would provide uncertain leadership in the post-9/11 war on terror. Donald Trump, always willing... Read more
Chicago: The Wild, Wild West
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftWell, you asked for it. Be thankful. ============= WSJ 6/16/2016 By Heather Mac Donald Someone was shot in Chicago every 150 minutes during the first five months of 2016. Someone was murdered every 14 hours, and the city saw nearly 1,400 nonfatal shootings and 240 fatalities from gunfire. Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one an hour, topping the previous year’s... Read more
