@Once-Ler I read this yesterday and had to say I could not gag my way through what this General had to say. I have said this many times on this website that I believe in the words of Martin Luther King. That all men should be judged by their character not their skin. And the same I believe for all races as Americans of this great country. What is happening is sad. Because politics keeps racism alive. Politics and politicians who use race as a pawn to gain votes. Someone always has something for this race or another. And if they can keep convincing them that they are suffering because someone is keeping them down and one party or the other must save them.
So it goes. But the truth is Martin Luther King was right, and had his dream come to fruition we wouldn't be having these protests. Possibly we wouldn't have the poverty, violence if politicians didn't feed off poverty and race. If they went after Drug Cartel that floods our neighborhoods with drugs and enslaves our children to a life of hopelessness. If they desired to make good changes that bring hope to neighborhoods riddled with poverty and crime. It isn't letting drug criminals out but getting jobs and training. Making sure that schools are not lacking because their neighborhoods are not wealthy. If you want to raise up the community its starts at the root of the issue. Not at the prison.
What's wrong with this guy's whole speal is that it is lacking of any idea to make things better for African Americans. And now the left is calling for defunding police. Do you agree with that? I sure don't.
Here is some excellent information.:
The Real Numbers Of “Police Brutality†in America That You Need To See
|February 18, 2019 |
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Everyone from the Hollywood elite to NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem… from the mainstream media to teachers at schools across the country… seem to want to declare that police are racists.
They’ll tell you there’s a disproportionate number of “unarmed black men†being killed by the cops.
That police brutality is out of control.
Except… the numbers once again absolutely destroy that argument.
According to 2019 data, there are 328, 240, 469 people here in the United States.
According to stats from com, there are 670,279 full time police officers here in the United States out of a total of 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers (data from National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund).
There are approximately 2.1 police officers per thousand people.
Police officers are less than .21 % of population.
Officers come into contact with 17% of the population annually.
That means 55,800,880 contacts
Which, at the time of the last report, led to 26,000 excessive force complaints against officers.
That’s 0.047% of contacts.
Only 8% of those complaints were sustained.
That’s 2,080 out of 53,380,000 contacts, or .0039%
A good friend of mine who is a Chief of Police put that into perspective:
You are seven times more likely to be murdered …
15 times more likely to be killed in a traffic accident …
42 times more likely to be raped …
… than to have a police officer use excessive force on you.
But we’re just warming up. Let’s look at 2018 police shootings.
Of the 998 total Police Deadly Use of Force, here is the breakdown by Race & Age:
Race
White –456 (45.69%)
Black –229 (22.95%)
Hispanic –165 (16.5%)
Other –41 (4.1%)
Unknown –107 (10.72%)
Age
Under 18 – 15
18 to 29 – 286
30 to 44 – 379
Over 45 – 253
Unknown – 65
According to 2016 FBI data, black men commit murder 572.8% more than white men. Rapes are committed at a level of 146.1% greater, robbery at 617.9% greater, aggravated assault at 203.3% greater and violent crime in total at 263.6% greater.
Now let’s look at 2018 Police Deadly Use of Force data...……….
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/police-brutality-race-numbers/Its pretty obvious to me that we need our police officers and they do a great job. What happened in Minnesota was not police doing a great job, but if one citizen murders someone is everyone in their neighborhood guilty? Absolutely not and we shouldn't hold our police force accountable for the wrongs of a few bad apples.
It is everyone's Constitutional right to assemble. To protest but they should be protesting that
all lives matter We should be demanding that people in law enforcement are of good moral character and make sure they are trained.
Lets stop the racism. All lives matter and are touched by violence. And defunding our police will only put us all in danger. Don't condemn the good work our law enforcement people do day in and day out. And to stop the violence we need to stop drugs and poverty. We need to value every human life.
