Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 10:00:03 GMT -6
My feelings on this, and the spot to get chat started, won't make me a lot of new friends among those who dislike cops.
So be it..and for anyone who hasn't read it 100 times over the years of reading my posts? My father was a cop, and I grew up around cops in a law enforcement household. Of course, I went on to lead a life as a teenager that cops are hired to catch...as where I'll leave that one, but forming a solid opinion from having seen both sides of that world, or at least how it exists on the street level.
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It didn't take much for this chaos to start...and people better drop their 'ewwwww....icky!' stupidity when it comes to lethal weapons, because if this continues out there? Your normal odds of 1:3, or whatever it is now, for being the victim of a violent crime in life will rise...DRAMATICALLY in some places, but it'll rise everywhere. Learning the art of lethal defense may become a practical skill you need.
It didn't take much. It just took a few HIGH profile incidents against the cops, for cops in general and already doing a very crappy job to look at each other, shrug a bit, and say 'why the hell do we work so hard, anyway?'.
The difference of giving up a little earlier on foot chases ..sounds small enough ...but how many foot chases don't end in arrest after burglary or whatever crimes ...and so the guy doesn't get caught in how many instances per week? Per month? Crime waves start very small...but criminals are pure opportunists by definition of what they do....and lax police are opportunity to embrace.
So..maybe cops are also a few minutes late on robbery calls ..and how many get away rather than being tagged on the scene or nearby as a result? Less work for cops..and criminals are VERY sensitive to the patterns of street life. Just adding a couple patrol cars to a shift WILL be noticed by people who that matters to in avoiding arrest ....and having a couple drop from view will ALSO be noticed as encouragement.
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If I were in law enforcement these days, I'd absolutely ask myself how hard I want to work, and risk getting into a situation THE OTHER GUY can take to lethal confrontation .....I might end up doing prison time for by the end of? That is a sea changing thing for cops to have to ask themselves, in a wide spread way ...but sadly, the above is correct.
It doesn't matter *HOW* clear a shoot it may seem to be now....assumption and presumption seems to be the cops murdered someone, every time. Simple jumping to conclusions like a new sport to learn.
Meanwhile? I think we could be in trouble for getting a bit too much of what people 'claim to want' so much. People want the cops to stop conflicting and working so aggressively? They apparently ARE slowing down...whether anyone told them to or not ...and the result is a criminal element sensing opportunity that hasn't existed since the 80's for a free for all atmosphere of 'they can't catch us all! ...and don't try too hard now!'.
This summer should be a real hoot. Another long...hot...summer.
So be it..and for anyone who hasn't read it 100 times over the years of reading my posts? My father was a cop, and I grew up around cops in a law enforcement household. Of course, I went on to lead a life as a teenager that cops are hired to catch...as where I'll leave that one, but forming a solid opinion from having seen both sides of that world, or at least how it exists on the street level.
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It didn't take much for this chaos to start...and people better drop their 'ewwwww....icky!' stupidity when it comes to lethal weapons, because if this continues out there? Your normal odds of 1:3, or whatever it is now, for being the victim of a violent crime in life will rise...DRAMATICALLY in some places, but it'll rise everywhere. Learning the art of lethal defense may become a practical skill you need.
The nation’s two-decades-long crime decline may be over. Gun violence in particular is spiraling upward in cities across America. In Baltimore, the most pressing question every morning is how many people were shot the previous night. Gun violence is up more than 60% compared with this time last year, according to Baltimore police, with 32 shootings over Memorial Day weekend. May has been the most violent month the city has seen in 15 years.
In Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% by May 17 over the same period the previous year. Through April, shootings in St. Louis were up 39%, robberies 43%, and homicides 25%. “Crime is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said St. Louis Alderman Joe Vacarro at a May 7 City Hall hearing.
In Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% by May 17 over the same period the previous year. Through April, shootings in St. Louis were up 39%, robberies 43%, and homicides 25%. “Crime is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said St. Louis Alderman Joe Vacarro at a May 7 City Hall hearing.
It didn't take much. It just took a few HIGH profile incidents against the cops, for cops in general and already doing a very crappy job to look at each other, shrug a bit, and say 'why the hell do we work so hard, anyway?'.
The difference of giving up a little earlier on foot chases ..sounds small enough ...but how many foot chases don't end in arrest after burglary or whatever crimes ...and so the guy doesn't get caught in how many instances per week? Per month? Crime waves start very small...but criminals are pure opportunists by definition of what they do....and lax police are opportunity to embrace.
So..maybe cops are also a few minutes late on robbery calls ..and how many get away rather than being tagged on the scene or nearby as a result? Less work for cops..and criminals are VERY sensitive to the patterns of street life. Just adding a couple patrol cars to a shift WILL be noticed by people who that matters to in avoiding arrest ....and having a couple drop from view will ALSO be noticed as encouragement.
Almost any police shooting of a black person, no matter how threatening the behavior that provoked the shooting, now provokes angry protests, like those that followed the death of Vonderrit Myers in St. Louis last October. The 18-year-old Myers, awaiting trial on gun and resisting-arrest charges, had fired three shots at an officer at close range. Arrests in black communities are even more fraught than usual, with hostile, jeering crowds pressing in on officers and spreading lies about the encounter.
If I were in law enforcement these days, I'd absolutely ask myself how hard I want to work, and risk getting into a situation THE OTHER GUY can take to lethal confrontation .....I might end up doing prison time for by the end of? That is a sea changing thing for cops to have to ask themselves, in a wide spread way ...but sadly, the above is correct.
It doesn't matter *HOW* clear a shoot it may seem to be now....assumption and presumption seems to be the cops murdered someone, every time. Simple jumping to conclusions like a new sport to learn.
Meanwhile? I think we could be in trouble for getting a bit too much of what people 'claim to want' so much. People want the cops to stop conflicting and working so aggressively? They apparently ARE slowing down...whether anyone told them to or not ...and the result is a criminal element sensing opportunity that hasn't existed since the 80's for a free for all atmosphere of 'they can't catch us all! ...and don't try too hard now!'.
This summer should be a real hoot. Another long...hot...summer.
