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Category Archives: Police
Two Police Murdered In Palm Springs
Steve Sailer writes: “There are always many crazy people in this world. But when the authorities figures of government, politics, media, NGOs, and academia encourage angry young men to feel even more unjustly victimized by cops than they would anyway, … Continue reading
Police vs Menace
If somebody is so mentally ill that they don’t know what they’re doing and they’re threatening the public order, they shouldn’t be allowed around decent people. A woman who claims a man was so charismatic that she couldn’t help sleeping … Continue reading
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ADL Criticizes ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill That Would Make Police Shootings a Hate Crime
You rarely find Jews in any movement that seeks to enhance the rights of the majority at the expense of minorities but you frequently find Jews in movements that seek to enhance the rights of minorities at the expense of … Continue reading
NYT: Bratton, Who Shaped an Era in Policing, Tries to Navigate a Racial Divide
New York Times: As he signals the end of his tenure as New York City police commissioner, William J. Bratton is attempting perhaps his most difficult task: tackling mistrust between officers and minority communities. Good luck with that. There’s no … Continue reading
Blacks & Crime
People with high IQs commit fewer crimes than people with low IQs. They have more empathy (which depends on the ability for abstract thought to put yourself in the place of others) and they see the future more clearly. Joe … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Misinformed Latino Cop Tries to Shoot Harmless Latino Autist, Wounds His Black Caregiver Instead. White People at Fault.
Steve Sailer writes: There’s a push these days to take away cops’ new quasi-military toys. That was part of the early right-of-center conventional wisdom out of Ferguson in 2014: it was all the cops’ fault for dressing like orcs. In … Continue reading
Ta-Nehesi Coates: ‘The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence’
Ta-Nehesi Coates writes for The Atlantic: “By ignoring illegitimate policing, America has also failed to address the danger this illegitimacy poses to those who must do the policing.” This reminds me of when my father was kicked out of the … Continue reading
WP Review of “To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police” by Norm Stamper and “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe” by Heather Mac Donald
Carlos Lozada writes for the Washington Post: TO PROTECT AND SERVE: How to Fix America’s Police By Norm Stamper. Nation Books. 309 pp. $27.99 THE WAR ON COPS: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe … Continue reading
‘FBI Data: From 2005 to 2014, Black perpetrators accounted for 40% of U.S. police killings despite being only 13% of the population.’
Blacks and Muslims punch above their weight. Daily Wire: 5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks 1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 … Continue reading
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