At the Presidential Debate, the President asked Biden to say the words, "Law & Order", which he declined & turned back at him to tell white supremacists to stand down, which he did.

So why did America forget that Biden was the one who wouldn't say, "LAW & ORDER"?

Some new information has surfaced in the Jacob Blake case and it gives us a glimpse into the defense of the officer’s actions on the day of the incident that resulted in Blake’s hospitalization. According to his lawyer, Officer Rusten Sheskey told investigators that his actions weren’t only motivated by safeguarding his own life, but that he was also trying to defend the children involved.

What conservatives oppose is top-down authority-powered pseudo-progress. The kind that liberals are trying to invent right now in Seattle, as they propose to “re-envision the way we handle public safety” to fix methods of policing that they consider “broken.”

What liberals don’t get is that conservatives don’t oppose progress, we just don’t believe that humans are all that good at making it happen. It seems obvious to us that humans advance by trial and error, in small increments. We try things. Most things we try don’t work, at least not as well as we’d hoped. But a few do. Those we keep. The others we toss over the side. People copy good ideas from each other, and they warn each other about the ideas that went bad. To our minds, this is how progress happens. It bubbles up from the bottom in what the Quality Assurance fraternity calls “continuous improvement.”

What we don’t get is why liberals fail to notice that virtually all of their Great Leaps Forward that are carefully planned by Smart People Wearing Suits, and then executed by government, either waste vast resources without accomplishing anything or waste vast resources while making things worse. //

Law enforcement has a long history in our culture. Our word sheriff is a contraction of the Old English ‘shire reeve’, a local official responsible for property management, supervising peasants, and so on.

Shire reeves were already common in England before the Norman Conquest. What this means for us is that today’s modern police force — the way it’s organized, the way it operates — is something that millions of humans have contributed to, thought about, puzzled over, worked on, and improved via trial and error for a thousand years. This is not a good place for liberals to go looking for improvements by starting over, by “re-envisioning” how we do things, from the top down.

The liberals on the Seattle City Council will not care. They won’t be deterred no matter what we tell them. Liberals never have any respect for the people who came before, who worked the problems, who tried and failed and tried again, to produce the methods we use every day and now take for granted. They always think they are so smart that they can start over and do it better.

The truth is—and should be—frightening: the overwhelming majority of police officers are not competent shooters.

Many police officers own few, if any, handguns, and many more own only a shotgun or a .22LR rifle of some kind. They rarely, if ever, practice on their own, and only a tiny portion of all police officers use their own time and money to attend advanced shooting or tactical schools, things a great many citizens routinely do. Far too many officers have only a single firearm: their issued duty handgun. Often, that handgun, as in the case of New York City, is a serious problem in and of itself. //

A major contributing factor is the NYPD requires 12-pound triggers on their officer’s issued handguns. Twelve-pound triggers greatly complicate accurate shooting, particularly when repeat shots are required. The heavier and longer the trigger pull, the more difficult it is to obtain consistent shot to shot accuracy. Triggers in the 12-pound range predictably cause officers to miss, and to miss badly. Consider that standard Glock triggers, those sold to the public, require only a 5.5 pound pull. Combine extremely heavy triggers with the mediocre training common to police agencies, and it would only be surprising if the police didn’t shoot innocents.

Many Law Enforcement Organizations (LEOs) are inherently anti-gun. They don’t trust their officers, and they fear accidental discharges far more than the consequences of accidently shooting citizens. Rather than spending the time and money necessary to maximize shooting accuracy and effectiveness, they focus on trying to prevent accidental discharges through mechanical means. //

Consider my experience. At the last law enforcement agency where I worked, I was given my handgun, a S&W Model 686 in .357 magnum, at my basic state academy. I was told the weapon was “sighted in,” but the sights were badly misaligned for me, and I qualified–barely–by employing artillery-like Kentucky windage. I had to hold about a foot right and about 8 inches high. The instructors wouldn’t allow me the time or tools necessary to properly align the sights; we had only a day for training and qualification. People unfamiliar with handguns had no idea why they couldn’t hit anything, and many failed to qualify.

I saw the gun again at my first LEO qualification shoot. There, I had the time and tools to sight in the weapon and managed a 100% score. To that point, all shooting was done with light-loaded .38 special wadcutter ammunition. I wouldn’t shoot full-charge duty ammo in qualification for another year, though I shot considerable duty ammo on my own.

I was one of only about five people in a 100-person agency capable of 100% shooting. At least 10 struggled to make a minimally passing score whenever they qualified. About 50 were average and the rest somewhat better or worse.

Because virtually no one did anything to improve their abilities on their own, those averages never changed. //

Officers that don’t regularly train, that are unfamiliar with their weapons and ammo, are more dangerous to the public than to criminals. The NYPD, with its 12-pound trigger mandate, illustrates the problem.

In 1990, NYPD officer hit potential was only 19%. Eighty-one percent of the rounds they fired at criminals missed. At less than three yards, they hit only 38% of the time. From 3-7 yards, 11.5% and from 7-15 yards, only 9.4%. //

The lessons, for the police and the public alike, are obvious:

1) Shooting accurately at any distance with a handgun takes regular, correct training and practice.

2) Hit probabilities of most police officers are mediocre at best, even at inside-a-phone-booth ranges.

3) Only correct, professional training increases office hit probability. Mere qualification shooting does not.

4) The greater the distance, the lower the police hit probability. The lower the ambient lighting, the lower the hit probability.

5) Most police officers are much more likely to miss than hit their targets.

6) The idea that officers can shoot well enough to incapacitate criminals by shooting to wound is Hollywood nonsense. In most cases, they can barely hit their targets at ridiculously close ranges.

7) The more officers involved in a shooting the more likely a greater number of rounds will be fired and the higher the probability of misses. The Dorner case, where eight LAPD officers–including a supervisor–unleashed 103 rounds at two innocent women delivering newspapers, is a case in point. They only wounded both women, but bravely shot seven nearby homes and nine parked, and thankfully unoccupied, cars.

One of the most common lies of anti-Second Amendment forces is that the police not only have the duty to protect everyone, they have the skill and the means. No one needs guns; leave it to the professionals.

The truth is the police have no legal duty to protect anyone, only to deter crime by their presence, and investigate it after it happens. As I’ve just demonstrated, most police officers don’t have the ability to reliably protect citizens with their weapons, even though most sincerely want to do so. //

No one can rely on the police to protect them. They are few, and when danger threatens, almost always far away, too far to save lives. Anyone claiming otherwise is either mistaken, or lying to take American’s liberty, and ultimately, their lives. Unlike on TV, the police aren’t going to be our salvation, and often, they’re the opposite. We’re ultimately responsible for our safety; no one else.

Reconciliation and empowerment is a surefire way to resecure the consent of the governed and end the policing crisis in many American communities.
By Bryan Baker

A whining crying sniveling coward produced a handgun from under his car seat and killed him.

Long overdue.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306016033061429261.html

A devastating indictment of the media weaving false narratives.

Larry Elder
@larryelder
Thanks #BlackLivesMatter; @BarackObama; @DNC; @CNN; @MSNBC; @TheRevAl; condescending "woke" media; condescending "woke" academia; and condescending "woke" Hollywood for pushing the lie that cops kill blacks just because they're black. This is the result. Happy?

“Recent years, the police have killed an average of a thousand people a year. This is a population of 350 million Americans. Some 40 million are black. I’ve heard the number 35, 35, 32, it’s around in there, okay? In the last 60 years, according to the Centers for Disease control, the rate at which people have…shot and killed blacks has declined 75% percent. Last year, near as we can figure out, there were 25 unarmed black people killed — not just shot and killed, but killed by many other ways. Twenty-five. At least as many unarmed whites have been killed by the police as unarmed blacks.

“Of all the…people police killed, less than 4% are ‘white cop killing unarmed black person.’ And again, ‘unarmed person’ does not necessarily mean ‘not dangerous.’ Michael Brown was unarmed, was perceived, reasonably, as dangerous. His DNA was found on the officer’s gun.

“It is true that the police are two-and-a-half times more likely to kill a black person than a white person. It’s also true, unfortunately, that a young black male is eight to ten times more likely to be the victim of a homicide than a young white male. That’s why the cops are there. … [O]f all the homocides in this country, 50% of them are black victims. And 94% of these black victims were likely killed by other blacks. We say ‘likely,’ because some of these are unsolved. Like in Chicago, where 75% of the homicides are unsolved.

“And you look at cities like LA, like New York, where the police departments — the staff — reflects the demographics of the city. I’m in LA. LA is 40% Hispanic, as is the LAPD. … It’s about 9% or so…black, as is the LAPD. I mean, honestly, from 1992-2002, we had back-to-back black police chiefs. And one of them was a chief during the O.J. Simpson case.”

What actual leadership looks like. //

Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders unveiled a proposal Thursday that would strip cities of annexation powers if local officials cut police department budgets.

“Cities that defund their police departments will forever lose their annexation powers, and any areas and any residents that have ever been annexed by that city in the past will have the power to vote to disannex them from the city,” Abbott said in a news conference at the Austin Police Association headquarters.

Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
Any defunding of law enforcement must start at the top.

Any mayor or governor that supports defunding police should lose their security detail.

"Americans found this laughably absurd in 2013. Sadly, only some do now." //

it pretty much illustrates how the Looney Tunes Left thinks police officers should interact with suspects who ignore their commands.

The Comedy Central video, recently re-shared by PragerU, features Key as a police officer and Peele as a suspect, re-enacting an arrest in which it’s clear that the suspect has no intention of following any of the officer’s orders, as described by The Blaze.

"How can I help you officer?" "Yes sir." "No Sir." "Thank you." An approach to avoid ending up dead. //

Leonydus has 10 more examples, all in 2019, two of whom were women. All were white, all were unarmed, and all of whom were killed by police action. He has photos of almost every person killed.

The point is not that the police use of deadly force was justified in each instance — in some it was not.

The point is that police use of deadly force is situational and rarely “racist.” Plenty of white people die at the hands of police officers every year — justified and unjustified — but no one burns down buildings, loots businesses, and attacks the police over it.

The cries of “racism” are just a rallying cry of a social cause unrelated to police activity. It’s always been about identity politics — the advocates have simply found a reservoir of “white guilt” that allows them to co-opt educated middle class liberal white voters.

If you are pushing this, you've already made the other side's point.

Jacob Blake's conduct burned down parts of his home town and got two people killed.

Barr recognizes leadership when he sees it. //

“I was disheartened to learn of the resignation of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. Her leadership and demonstrated commitment to her oath of office reflected all that is good about America’s law enforcement. In the face of mob violence, she drew the line in the sand and said, “Enough!”, working tirelessly to save lives, protect her officers, and restore stability to Seattle. Her example should be an inspiration to all who respect the rule of law and cherish safety and security in their communities. This experience should be a lesson to state and local leaders about the real costs of irresponsible proposals to defund the police.”

This is the horror that Democrats have enabled...

Straight up awesome!

It is important, therefore, that we work together in combating organized crime in all its forms. We must use our courts and our law enforcement agencies, and the moral forces of our people, to put down organized crime wherever it appears.

At the same time, we must aid and encourage gentler forces to do their work of prevention and cure. These forces include education, religion, and home training, family and child guidance, and wholesome recreation.

The most important business in this Nation--or any other nation, for that matter-is raising and training children. If those children have the proper environment at home, and educationally, very, very few of them ever turn out wrong. I don't think we put enough stress on the necessity of implanting in the child's mind the moral code under which we live.

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days.

If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally wind up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the state.

Above all, we must recognize that human misery breeds most of our crime. We must wipe out our slums, improve the health of our citizens, and eliminate the inequalities of opportunity which embitter men and women and turn them toward lawlessness. In the long run, these programs represent the greatest of all anticrime measures.

And I want to emphasize, particularly, equality of opportunity. I think every child in the Nation, regardless of his race, creed, or color, should have the right to a proper education. And when he has finished that education, he ought to have the right in industry to fair treatment in employment. If he is able and willing to do the job, he ought to be given a chance to do that job, no matter what his religious connections are, or what his color is.

I am particularly anxious that we should do everything within our power to protect the minds and hearts of our children from the moral corruption that accompanies organized crime. Our children are our greatest resource, and our greatest asset--the hope of our future, and the future of the world. We must not permit the existence of conditions which cause our children to believe that crime is inevitable and normal. We must teach idealism--honor, ethics, decency, the moral law. We must teach that we should do right because it is right, and not in the hope of any material reward. That is what our moral code is based on: do to the other fellow as you would have him do to you. If we would continue that all through our lives, we wouldn't have organized crime--if everybody would do that.

Our local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies have a major role to play in this whole task of crime suppression.

As law enforcement officers you have great powers. At the same time you must never forget that hand in hand with those powers go great responsibilities. You must make certain that these powers are not used for personal gain, or from any personal motive. Too often organized crime is made possible by corruption of law enforcement officials.

But, far more than that, we must always remember that you are officers of the law in a great democratic nation which owes its birth to the indignation of its citizens against the encroachment of police and governmental powers against their individual freedoms.

Now there isn't any difference, so far as I can see, in the manner in which totalitarian states treat individuals than there is in the racketeers' handling of these lawless rackets with which we are sometimes faced. And the reason that our Government is strong, and the greatest democracy in the world, is because we have a Bill of Rights.

You don't know what it is to be her right now. //

This woman is allowed her tears. They aren’t just tears over a sandwich. They were tears about everything that is happening right now. All the unjust nonsense happening in the world that is currently being laid at her feet and the feet of the law enforcement community. All the unjust response toward police is being aimed at her and her fellow badge carriers. Long shifts of dealing with 10 percent of the population 90 percent of the time and much of that 10 percent having the worst day of their life.

She deserves better.

Terry Stops and Three Strikes have an important place in policing and public safety. No need to throw the baby out with the bath water.