Steve Sailer writes: There\u2019s a push these days to take away cops\u2019 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\u2019 fault for dressing like orcs.<\/p>\n
In reality, working people these days are much more safety conscious than they were, say, 40 years ago. Rendering the cops as ill-equipped as they were during the Dallas Massacre doesn\u2019t solve much.<\/p>\n
Instead, you have to work with the fact that cops aren\u2019t as brave as they used to be when they\u2019d just walk up with a knightstick and whack a perp into submission. That can get you into real trouble these days. Nonlethal violence looks bad on video, like when the LAPD, having been denied the use of a chokehold, but not wanting to shoot Rodney King, hit him a whole bunch of times to finally subdue him. That didn\u2019t work out so well for the cops<\/p>\n
In Tom Wolfe\u2019s 2012 novel Back to Blood, Miami cop Nestor Camacho bravely wrestles down a Rodney King-sized black perp, but an out-of-context video winds up all over social media.<\/p>\n
Now, cops say things like, \u201cI\u2019m going home tonight,\u201d meaning: \u201cI\u2019m not getting myself killed over this.\u201d<\/p>\n
So we need to work with that reality and develop stand-off means to allow cops to deal with possibly armed suspects without shooting them.<\/p>\n
Comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n * There is a big problem with how 911 calls are passed on and with how the police treat \u201cman with a gun.\u201d It was reported as \u201csuicidal white guy with a gun\u201d (it was a toy truck \u2013 the man was autistic and childlike). One the police arrive at the scene expecting a gun, they are primed to see one and as soon as they see one they feel justified in killing you immediately, especially if you don\u2019t seem to be \u201ccompliant.\u201d People are often not compliant because there is something wrong with them (mental illness, don\u2019t speak English, etc.). The police killed Tamir Rice TWO SECONDS after they arrived on the scene, because he was \u201creaching for his gun.\u201d<\/p>\n * This shooting is the clearest example yet of too many people getting shot by cops. This is a real problem, that has nothing to do with race. But for Obama, everything has to do with race, so instead of helping to solve it, he exacerbated a different problem.<\/p>\n I haven\u2019t seen any pundit make the connection, but some of this stems from how atomized America is today. There\u2019s little in the way of organic community institutions that can deal with stuff without calling 911, which brings cops at Def Con 1. Maybe if there were a neighborhood watch that could have taken a closer look at the autistic guy and saw he had a toy before someone called the police.<\/p>\n Maybe in the Alton Sterling case, there could have been a merchant\u2019s association or whatever to give Sterling a job sweeping up the sidewalks in front of the stores instead of selling CDs.<\/p>\n Maybe in the case of the black lady whose mentally ill son was shot dead by a cop for holding a screw driver, there could have been some neighbors to call to help get him to the mental hospital without killing him.<\/p>\n * Police are not known for elementary marksmanship skill, as this pathetic episode demonstrates. The irony is that IF he had aimed, breathed, focused on front sight, P R E S S E D the trigger, he would have killed the autistic guy. So all in all, his incompetence computed into embarrassment and minor injury, nothing else.<\/p>\n * \u201cWhite\u201d Hispanic is newspeak for he is the bad guy in the narrative. If they could get away with it we would have \u201cwhite\u201d Asians, \u201cwhite\u201d African-Americans, etc.<\/p>\n * He tried to shoot a harmless, unarmed idiot and missed shooting instead an equally harmless and unarmed bystander. This is a tough one if you are queer for cops. The guy with his hands up (the stupid violent black guy) was trying to convey useful information to the trigger happy moron who shot him.<\/p>\n * This seems more like a hiring standards issue to me. If the police weren\u2019t under the cruel yoke of AA I\u2019m sure no one would have been shot.<\/p>\n * Many readers might think that this is churlish in the extreme from me, but here we see a so called \u2018Hispanic\u2019 autistic adult being accompanied by a \u2018professional\u2019 black \u2018caregiver\u2019 \u2013 evidently doing the job the autistic man\u2019s parents will not do -.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know how long the autistic man\u2019s parents have been in the USA, but I would love to see a pure accountant\u2019s cost\/benefit analysis of the tax contributions of the parents compared to the tax expenditure on the autistic man. Remember, the likely taxpayer cost of \u2018care giving\u2019 of this type must run into tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum \u2013 that is more than one full time worker, somewhere in the system, must go out to work each and every day to support the autist. Yes, yes, I know many of you will hate me for saying all this, but just think of what the huge sums of money poured into \u2018care giving\u2019 this \u2018Hispanic\u2019 could have done for giving inpecunious talented college students financial support.<\/p>\n * The whole episode has a very Dave Barry sort of farcical quality about it. Basically what you\u2019d expect in South Florida.<\/p>\n BLM won\u2019t admit that the incidents they complain of are more Keystone Kops clumsiness than KKK lynchings, because that would take the wind out of their sails, but most of life is farce, not drama.<\/p>\n * Which cases, in this country of nearly a third of a billion residents, would you care to cite? Alton Sterling? Philando Castile? Michael Brown? How many unreasonable cases would you expect to find, in any given year, in a country this populous, considering the nature of our population? It seems to me, if police are willfully or wantonly shooting innocent-and-harmless Black men, in significant and unacceptable numbers, as claimed by Black Lives Matter and the mainstream media, inter alia, then those advocates and activists should be able to rattle off any number of clear-cut cases of willful or wanton killings of innocent-and-harmless Black men. Instead, the \u201cmartyrs\u201d cited, mourned and canonized are overwhelmingly people like Alton Sterling. Would you like for me to detail his case, including his lengthy and telling rap sheet, leading up to his death?<\/p>\n * If you rear end someone, as a private citizen, you have no right to exit your car brandishing a weapon\u2013 whether you legally possess that weapon or not. If you are a private citizen, you also have no police power\u2013 meaning no authority to order the other driver, whose car you just rear ended, not to move. If you shoot him with the gun that you are illegally brandishing, based merely upon the unreasonable supposition in your own hypothetical, then you have committed a further crime\u2013 the nature of which depends upon your aim and the resulting effect of your illegal action.<\/p>\n When a policeman, in the course of his duties, stops a car, whether as the result of a BOLO match or a reasonable suspicion of some other violation, such as speeding, he is exercising his police powers\u2013 and the consequent duties of the driver stopped is utterly different from when he has been rear ended by a bad driver, such as you. The policeman must act reasonably, under the circumstances; but, his circumstances, as an officer of the law, are utterly different from yours, as a bad driver who approaches another driver, whom you just have rear ended.<\/p>\n The bottom line is, each case must be analyzed on its own facts. Black Lives Matter activists, the mainstream media, and even many of Steve\u2019s readers, seem to think that the police have no more authority to apply potentially lethal force, in furtherance of their duties, than does any private individual, and that police shootings of members of the public should be presumed to be illicit, with the shooter required to prove otherwise. That is not how the law works\u2013 thank goodness!<\/p>\n * Tamir Rice.<\/p>\n Two very obvious words that nobody seems to want to say because they are taboo:<\/p>\n Ghetto lottery.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if this is true about the Tamir Rice case specifically. But I do tend to think that that any number of ghetto mamas are deliberately having their sons of say, late pre-adolescent and early adolescent years, run around in public and play with toy guns, in the hopes that a cop will shoot and kill him and then she can cash out in a lawsuit. Think about it: Let\u2019s say you\u2019re L\u2019Booshondria, and you gave birth to little N\u2019Deshawntavious when you were 15. Twelve years later, you\u2019re 27 and he\u2019s 12. And it\u2019s easy to see that N\u2019Deshawntavious will never amount to anything; he just joined the FFA, Future Felons of America. He can\u2019t rap, can\u2019t \u2018ball (play a sport), and doesn\u2019t have the meddle to be a dope dealer. Ghetto black single mothers love to try to monetize their sons and guilt-trip them into being her surrogate husband and provider. So, what is L\u2019Booshondria to do with N\u2019Deshawntavious who has no natural money making ability in the only ghetto ways available, rap, sports or drug dealing? Easy \u2014 Cash out on his black body using the ghetto lottery; bait the police into shooting and killing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve Sailer writes: There\u2019s a push these days to take away cops\u2019 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\u2019 fault for dressing like orcs. In … Continue reading
\nPlus we have the absurd sight of a seemingly fit, active, healthy able-bodied man not contributing to the economy in an active way, but being employed as a \u2018caregiver\u2019.<\/p>\n