THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 9, 2021
Paul Plante: Thoughts on Police Reform in America Today
Special to the Mirror by Paul Plante
Every day, it seems, we hear about this group or that group, or this “community,” or that “community” screeching and hollering about “police reform,” without ever really saying what “police reform” is, or what it would look like once enacted or implemented, and in his speech to the Democrats on 28 April 2021 to celebrate Joe Biden making it through one hundred days of what is a four-year term, which is like celebrating someone making it through the first quarter mile of a marathon, Joe brought the subject up himself, as follows:
We have all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black America.
Now is our opportunity to make real progress.
Most men and women in uniform wear their badge and serve their communities honorably.
I know them.
I know they want to help meet this moment as well.
My fellow Americans, we have to come together.
To rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve.
To root out systemic racism in our criminal justice system.
And to enact police reform in George Floyd’s name that passed the House already.
I know the Republicans have their own ideas and are engaged in productive discussions with Democrats.
We need to work together to find a consensus.
Let’s get it done next month, by the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
The country supports this reform.
Congress should act.
We have a giant opportunity to bend to the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
Real justice.
And with the plans I outlined tonight, we have a real chance to root out systemic racism that plagues American life in many other ways.
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Now, as we try to do what Joe said to do in his speech to the Democrats on 28 April 2021 where he told us that we have a giant opportunity to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice, real justice, not some cheap fake or imitation justice, but the real deal, before we can actually do any of that actual bending of the arc of the moral universe towards real justice, not the horse**** version of “justice” Joe Biden is pushing, we first have to consider just what the word “justice” even means anymore, and to do that, we need to go back to August 10, 2020, just so many months before the farce of presidential elections in November of 2020, and the Washington Examiner article entitled “Biden now claims that Michael Brown was a victim of systemic racism” by Becket Adams, Commentary Writer, as follows:
Joe Biden this weekend tied the 2014 shooting death of Ferguson, Missouri, resident Michael Brown to the need to tackle “systemic racism” and corrupt law enforcement.
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Now, that is some very heavy-duty pure horse**** there, and it is right there that Joe Biden lost me with respect to any bending of any moral arcs, because Joe Biden, a “Willie Horton Democrat,” is trying to bend them the wrong way to benefit the law breakers and scoffers at rule of law and order who are his base to the detriment of civilized society who would be the victims of Joe Biden’s so-called “police reforms,” which reforms are not the province of a United States president in the first place, as we will see as I develop this topic further by making reference to a document submitted to The Urban League a bit ago entitled NATIONAL COPS EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY: Albany, New York by David Thacher, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University – Case Study Prepared for the Urban Institute, which is a very thorough report on the history of the Albany Police, which agency is now under serious political attack by the Common Council of Albany and the so-called “police review board,” and reforms over the years, and the fact that meddling by ignorant politicians just like Joe Biden into matters they know nothing about, but only have their feelings and emotions about, like Willie Horton and the fact that he couldn’t get out of prison on weekends so he could mingle with polite society is a big part of what is wrong with policing in America today, which argues for keeping Joe Biden totally out of the process after his stupid remarks in 2020 about Michael Brown, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner, as follows:
It is puzzling that he would link the one to the others, considering the Department of Justice under his boss, former President Barack Obama, concluded that Brown was no victim.
Rather, the 18-year-old black man was killed in the act of attacking a police officer and trying to take away his gun.
“It’s been six years since Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson — reigniting a movement,” said the former vice president on the sixth anniversary of Brown’s death.
“We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.”
It’s been six years since Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson — reigniting a movement. We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 9, 2020
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There is Joe on TWITTER, a social media site for morons and idiots who can’t read or understand more than a handful of words or pure gibberish at a time, proving that TWITTER is for morons and idiots by posting the stupid TWEET, which is why I am against Joe Biden bending the arc of the moral universe in his direction, which will be to the benefit of other Michael Browns who like Willie Horton, are a threat to civilized society, not a benefit to it, which again takes us back to the Washington Examiner, to wit:
Again, Obama’s Justice Department found that there was no credible evidence to support the claim that the white officer, Darren Wilson, had done anything illegal when he shot and killed Brown.
Rather, its independent investigation found Wilson had acted in self-defense.
So, why release a statement on the sixth anniversary of the justifiable shooting death of Brown and tie it to “systemic racism and reforming policing?”
What is Biden doing, if not deliberately inflaming passions and whipping up resentment?
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee seems to be playing footsie with the popular and false assertion that led to the torching of Ferguson at the time — that Wilson had “murdered” Brown.
It is a lie, and a persistent one at that.
Other top-tier Democratic officials, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have helped spread this bit of fake news, too.
And they know what they are doing when they spread it.
Harris said in August 2019, “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
Warren tweeted 35 minutes later, “5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.”
“Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times.”
“I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael.”
“We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on.”
But Brown was not “murdered,” as the Obama Justice Department made abundantly clear in its investigation of the matter.
The false story that Brown put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot!” has been debunked thoroughly, and Biden and his campaign team really should know better.
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Sides are being taken, people, and lines are being drawn.
Which side will you be on?
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THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 10, 2021 AT 6:36 PM
Paul Plante says:
And staying with the subject of the supposed “need” for “police reform” in the United States of America as was stated by Joe Biden in his speech to the Democrats on 28 April 2021 to celebrate Joe Biden making it through one hundred days in office where Joe made the specious, reckless and inflammatory statement “We have all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black America,” let us for a moment go back to 9 August 2019, where we have a mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, from now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris identifying herself in the TWEET as “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, which means it has to be true and cannot possibly be false, as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
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Except as we clearly see from a VOX article entitled “Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris’s controversial Michael Brown tweets, explained – The tweets claimed a police officer 'murdered' Michael Brown. But that’s not what investigators, including those from the Obama administration, concluded” by German Lopez on Aug, 12, 2019, that is not at all true, and not only is it not true, but further, United States government official Kamala Harris would have known she was lying when she told the blatant lie in her TWEET that Michael Brown was murdered, to wit:
Warren and Harris reiterated the protesters’ narrative in two separate tweets on the five-year anniversary of the shooting, using the moment to call for action against systemic racism and police violence.
But the Justice Department’s 2015 report contradicted many of the protesters’ claims, finding that Wilson likely did have reason to fear for his life and didn’t violate the law in shooting Brown.
After Wilson stopped Brown for walking in the middle of the street, the officer reportedly realized Brown was a robbery suspect who stole cigarillos from a nearby convenience store.
Wilson attempted to stop Brown, and both men had a physical altercation at the officer’s SUV.
Wilson then opened fire from his vehicle.
Brown ran, turned around, and Wilson fired more shots, supposedly out of fear that Brown was charging at him.
Brown died about 150 feet from Wilson’s vehicle.
He was shot six times.
No gunshot was confirmed to hit Brown from behind.
The physical evidence suggested that Brown reached into Wilson’s car during their physical altercation and, very likely, attempted to grab the officer’s gun.
The most credible witnesses agreed that Brown moved toward Wilson before the officer fired his final shots — and there simply wasn’t enough evidence, especially given the struggle at the car, that Wilson wasn’t justified in fearing for his life when he fired the shots that killed Brown.
Although some credible witnesses suggested Brown raised his hands up before he died, witnesses who disputed major parts of Wilson’s side of the story were discredited by the physical evidence and when they changed their accounts.
The report said all this was “corroborated by bruising on Wilson’s jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown’s DNA on Wilson’s collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson’s DNA on Brown’s palm.”
The report concluded:
Given that Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses, to include aspects of the testimony of Witness 101 [Brown’s friend], there is no credible evidence that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was attempting to surrender or was otherwise not posing a threat.
Even if Wilson was mistaken in his interpretation of Brown’s conduct, the fact that others interpreted that conduct the same way as Wilson precludes a determination that he acted with a bad purpose to disobey the law.
The same is true even if Wilson could be said to have acted with poor judgment in the manner in which he first interacted with Brown, or in pursuing Brown after the incident at the SUV.
These are matters of policy and procedure that do not rise to the level of a Constitutional violation and thus cannot support a criminal prosecution.
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So there we have Kamala Harris being made out for what she really is – a lying politician.
Michael Brown was not murdered and vice president Kamal Harris is a liar for having said so.
So do we need “police reform?”
Let’s go back to the VOX article once more where we have as follows on that particular subject, to wit:
Another report released at the same time uncovered a pattern of racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, and it argued that the disparities could only be explained, at least in part, by unlawful bias and stereotypes against African Americans.
In particular, the police department largely seemed to be used by the local government as a revenue-generating operation that disproportionately stopped, ticketed, and fined black residents.
It’s these kinds of racist operations that likely fueled local resentment toward the police department, making Ferguson a tinderbox for protests and riots — one that ignited when news of the Brown shooting spread.
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HUH?
What?
The police department in Ferguson largely seemed to be used by the local government as a revenue-generating operation that disproportionately stopped, ticketed, and fined black residents?
Well how about that now will you!
So what really needs to be reformed here, people?
It is corrupt and lying politicians, is it not?
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Paul Plante says:
And staying with the subject of the supposed “need” for “police reform” in the United States of America as was stated by Joe Biden in his speech to the Democrats on 28 April 2021 to celebrate Joe Biden making it through one hundred days in office where Joe made the specious, reckless and inflammatory statement “We have all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black America,” let us for a moment go back to 9 August 2019, where we have a mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, from now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris identifying herself in the TWEET as “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, which means it has to be true and cannot possibly be false, as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
end quotes
Except as we clearly see from a VOX article entitled “Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris’s controversial Michael Brown tweets, explained – The tweets claimed a police officer 'murdered' Michael Brown. But that’s not what investigators, including those from the Obama administration, concluded” by German Lopez on Aug, 12, 2019, that is not at all true, and not only is it not true, but further, United States government official Kamala Harris would have known she was lying when she told the blatant lie in her TWEET that Michael Brown was murdered, to wit:
Warren and Harris reiterated the protesters’ narrative in two separate tweets on the five-year anniversary of the shooting, using the moment to call for action against systemic racism and police violence.
But the Justice Department’s 2015 report contradicted many of the protesters’ claims, finding that Wilson likely did have reason to fear for his life and didn’t violate the law in shooting Brown.
After Wilson stopped Brown for walking in the middle of the street, the officer reportedly realized Brown was a robbery suspect who stole cigarillos from a nearby convenience store.
Wilson attempted to stop Brown, and both men had a physical altercation at the officer’s SUV.
Wilson then opened fire from his vehicle.
Brown ran, turned around, and Wilson fired more shots, supposedly out of fear that Brown was charging at him.
Brown died about 150 feet from Wilson’s vehicle.
He was shot six times.
No gunshot was confirmed to hit Brown from behind.
The physical evidence suggested that Brown reached into Wilson’s car during their physical altercation and, very likely, attempted to grab the officer’s gun.
The most credible witnesses agreed that Brown moved toward Wilson before the officer fired his final shots — and there simply wasn’t enough evidence, especially given the struggle at the car, that Wilson wasn’t justified in fearing for his life when he fired the shots that killed Brown.
Although some credible witnesses suggested Brown raised his hands up before he died, witnesses who disputed major parts of Wilson’s side of the story were discredited by the physical evidence and when they changed their accounts.
The report said all this was “corroborated by bruising on Wilson’s jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown’s DNA on Wilson’s collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson’s DNA on Brown’s palm.”
The report concluded:
Given that Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses, to include aspects of the testimony of Witness 101 [Brown’s friend], there is no credible evidence that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was attempting to surrender or was otherwise not posing a threat.
Even if Wilson was mistaken in his interpretation of Brown’s conduct, the fact that others interpreted that conduct the same way as Wilson precludes a determination that he acted with a bad purpose to disobey the law.
The same is true even if Wilson could be said to have acted with poor judgment in the manner in which he first interacted with Brown, or in pursuing Brown after the incident at the SUV.
These are matters of policy and procedure that do not rise to the level of a Constitutional violation and thus cannot support a criminal prosecution.
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So there we have Kamala Harris being made out for what she really is – a lying politician.
Michael Brown was not murdered and vice president Kamal Harris is a liar for having said so.
So do we need “police reform?”
Let’s go back to the VOX article once more where we have as follows on that particular subject, to wit:
Another report released at the same time uncovered a pattern of racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, and it argued that the disparities could only be explained, at least in part, by unlawful bias and stereotypes against African Americans.
In particular, the police department largely seemed to be used by the local government as a revenue-generating operation that disproportionately stopped, ticketed, and fined black residents.
It’s these kinds of racist operations that likely fueled local resentment toward the police department, making Ferguson a tinderbox for protests and riots — one that ignited when news of the Brown shooting spread.
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HUH?
What?
The police department in Ferguson largely seemed to be used by the local government as a revenue-generating operation that disproportionately stopped, ticketed, and fined black residents?
Well how about that now will you!
So what really needs to be reformed here, people?
It is corrupt and lying politicians, is it not?
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 14, 2021 AT 6:15 PM
Paul Plante says:
And getting back to the subject of this thread which is so-called “police reform,” a nebulous term if ever there was one, a very slippery, amorphous (without a clearly defined shape or form; lacking a clear structure or focus) term, a Progressive Democrat term, for necessary background, let us go back to 9 August 2019 and the mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, from now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris identifying herself in the TWEET as “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, which means it has to be true and cannot possibly be false, where she posted as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
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That conversation she is talking about, however, is based on a lie, and any conversation that starts out based on falsehood as is this one is fatally flawed right from the very outset.
Michael Brown was not murdered.
And that brings us further back in time to an article in THE WRAP on 28 August 2014, where we see Democrat Hillary Clinton pandering to the Black folks by propagating the lie that Michael Brown was a “victim” of anti-Black police violence, as follows:
Former U.S. Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out about the events in Ferguson, Mo.
On Thursday, Clinton made her first remarks on the tense and racially charged situation that followed the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9.
“This is what happens when the bonds of trust and respect that hold any community together fray,” Clinton said at a tech conference in San Francisco.
She also sympathized with Brown’s family.
“Losing a child is every parent’s greatest fear and an unimaginable loss,” Clinton said.
“Watching the recent funeral for Michael Brown, as a mother, as a human being, my heart just broke for his family.”
As recently as Aug. 24, Clinton was silent on the ongoing strife in Ferguson, even as reporters shouted questions at her while she left a book signing in Westhampton, N.Y.
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Yes, people, pandering, hack politicians like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden himself all peddling blatant falsehoods about Michael Brown that have brought us forward to this time we are in today with these calls from the pandering Democrats for police reform.
Should blatant falsehoods and outright lies from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden serve as the basis for a rational conversation on police reform?
But wait!
Can there ever be a rational conversation based on lies?
Silly me, of course not.
So why are we talking about police reform then?
Because Joe Biden said so based on a blatant lie by Kamala Harris?
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Paul Plante says:
And getting back to the subject of this thread which is so-called “police reform,” a nebulous term if ever there was one, a very slippery, amorphous (without a clearly defined shape or form; lacking a clear structure or focus) term, a Progressive Democrat term, for necessary background, let us go back to 9 August 2019 and the mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, from now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris identifying herself in the TWEET as “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, which means it has to be true and cannot possibly be false, where she posted as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
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That conversation she is talking about, however, is based on a lie, and any conversation that starts out based on falsehood as is this one is fatally flawed right from the very outset.
Michael Brown was not murdered.
And that brings us further back in time to an article in THE WRAP on 28 August 2014, where we see Democrat Hillary Clinton pandering to the Black folks by propagating the lie that Michael Brown was a “victim” of anti-Black police violence, as follows:
Former U.S. Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out about the events in Ferguson, Mo.
On Thursday, Clinton made her first remarks on the tense and racially charged situation that followed the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9.
“This is what happens when the bonds of trust and respect that hold any community together fray,” Clinton said at a tech conference in San Francisco.
She also sympathized with Brown’s family.
“Losing a child is every parent’s greatest fear and an unimaginable loss,” Clinton said.
“Watching the recent funeral for Michael Brown, as a mother, as a human being, my heart just broke for his family.”
As recently as Aug. 24, Clinton was silent on the ongoing strife in Ferguson, even as reporters shouted questions at her while she left a book signing in Westhampton, N.Y.
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Yes, people, pandering, hack politicians like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden himself all peddling blatant falsehoods about Michael Brown that have brought us forward to this time we are in today with these calls from the pandering Democrats for police reform.
Should blatant falsehoods and outright lies from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden serve as the basis for a rational conversation on police reform?
But wait!
Can there ever be a rational conversation based on lies?
Silly me, of course not.
So why are we talking about police reform then?
Because Joe Biden said so based on a blatant lie by Kamala Harris?
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 16, 2021 AT 12:10 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here, to get a glimpse of what the future looks like with regard to Progressive “police reform” in the United States of America, let us go to the Wall Street Journal article entitled “Philadelphia’s Progressive DA Faces a Primary Test Amid Crime Surge” by Scott Calvert on 15 May 2021 to see what kind of miracles the Progressives, who are the smartest people on the planet, which is why they are called “Progressives,” since they have progressed so much further up the scale of overwhelming intellectual horsepower than the rest of us who aren’t Progressives, have wrought in Philadelphia with regard to that subject of “police reform,” to wit:
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, one of the highest-profile progressive prosecutors in the U.S., faces a re-election challenge that will test support for his reformist policies at a time of soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city.
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But you see, people, even though the dude’s “reformist policies” seem to have resulted in soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city, we can’t really pin the blame on him, because, ah, well (stall for time), well, we just can’t that’s why, because it’s not fair, because maybe something else caused the support for the soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city, and it probably was the fault of Trump.
So let’s go back to the Wall Street Journal to see if we can learn anything more about the PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION in crime-ridden Philadelphia, to wit:
Mr. Krasner is one of a wave of progressive prosecutors elected in recent years who ran on a platform of reducing prosecutions for low-level crimes, changing bail conditions and not seeking the death penalty.
How he fares will be an early gauge of their support, as cities nationwide grapple with an increase in murders and shootings.
One of Mr. Krasner’s early moves as DA was to fire more than 30 prosecutors, including Mr. Vega, who joined the office in 1982 and went on to become the state’s first Latino homicide prosecutor.
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Now, there is a curious thing, indeed, people, and its name is “criminal coddling.”
Get rid of all the prosecutors!
They are the ones really causing all the problems, people, not the criminals, who are only criminals because there are prosecutors to call them that while prosecuting them, which of course makes the criminals feel bad about themselves, as opposed to all warm and squishy inside, which in turn makes the Progressives feel bad about themselves in sympathy for the criminals the Progressives like to coddle, because in the end, they are kindred spirits.
Getting back to the story, we have:
Mr. Krasner, 60, says he has kept key campaign promises by not seeking the death penalty, not prosecuting most simple drug-possession cases and moving away from cash bail for minor crimes.
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And there, people, is an interesting phenomena – a man runs for office as a prosecutor on a platform of not prosecuting people which gives him an election win that he then calls a mandate from the people to not prosecute other people, which seems to me a descent into anarchy, but hey, that is just me, so moving right along here, back to the story, we go:
He talks up the fact that he has brought criminal charges against dozens of police officers, but also says he works closely with the Police Department.
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BINGO!
There we have it, people – the police are really the criminals in Philadelphia and they need to be slapped down real hard, and this Progressive dude is just the dude to do so, which makes the Progressives and the criminals love the dude for his tough stance against the police!
Getting back to the story:
The rising murder toll poses a political liability for Mr. Krasner, said Caren Morrison, associate professor of law at Georgia State University, who has researched prosecutor races across the U.S.
Philadelphia had 499 homicides last year, the second-highest total on record, and this year has recorded 191 killings through Wednesday, a 39% increase from the same point in 2020, police figures show.
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Yes, people, a Progressive miracle, indeed, but let’s not stop there, because there is more yet to come, as follows:
Mr. Krasner says shootings and killings have risen in many U.S. cities during the coronavirus pandemic, which caused social upheaval, disrupted police work and largely shut down courts.
The election is “really a choice between the past and the future,” Mr. Krasner said in an interview.
“And this is a city with a very troubling past when it comes to prosecution, and when it comes to policing.”
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That’s why they call them “Progressives,” people, because they have progressed to the point of realizing that the real problem isn’t the criminals, it is the police and prosecutors who conspire to give criminals a bad name, when everybody, er, well, all Progressives, know that the criminals are really good people, which takes us back to the Wall Street Journal, as follows:
But the police union’s energetic support for Mr. Vega could benefit Mr. Krasner in a city where Black Lives Matters protests last year drew throngs to the streets.
During his 30-year career as a defense lawyer before becoming DA, Mr. Krasner filed 75 civil-rights lawsuits and represented Black Lives Matter activists.
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Which made him the ideal candidate for BLACK LIVES MATTER to put in office as the prosecuting attorney to insure that they would be immune from prosecution, which takes us back to this, to wit:
Billionaire investor George Soros backs Mr. Krasner.
The Soros-funded Safety and Justice political-action committee pumped $1.7 million into the 2017 race and had spent $270,000 as of Friday on this year’s campaign, said Whitney Tymas, the PAC’s president.
“We continue to support Larry Krasner because he is making Philadelphia fairer and more just,” Ms. Tymas said, citing the exonerations, a decrease in racial disparities and a shift to treating nonviolent drug crime as a public health issue.
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Yes, people, the future is now!
Which side are you going to find yourself on?
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Paul Plante says:
And here, to get a glimpse of what the future looks like with regard to Progressive “police reform” in the United States of America, let us go to the Wall Street Journal article entitled “Philadelphia’s Progressive DA Faces a Primary Test Amid Crime Surge” by Scott Calvert on 15 May 2021 to see what kind of miracles the Progressives, who are the smartest people on the planet, which is why they are called “Progressives,” since they have progressed so much further up the scale of overwhelming intellectual horsepower than the rest of us who aren’t Progressives, have wrought in Philadelphia with regard to that subject of “police reform,” to wit:
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, one of the highest-profile progressive prosecutors in the U.S., faces a re-election challenge that will test support for his reformist policies at a time of soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city.
end quotes
But you see, people, even though the dude’s “reformist policies” seem to have resulted in soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city, we can’t really pin the blame on him, because, ah, well (stall for time), well, we just can’t that’s why, because it’s not fair, because maybe something else caused the support for the soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city, and it probably was the fault of Trump.
So let’s go back to the Wall Street Journal to see if we can learn anything more about the PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION in crime-ridden Philadelphia, to wit:
Mr. Krasner is one of a wave of progressive prosecutors elected in recent years who ran on a platform of reducing prosecutions for low-level crimes, changing bail conditions and not seeking the death penalty.
How he fares will be an early gauge of their support, as cities nationwide grapple with an increase in murders and shootings.
One of Mr. Krasner’s early moves as DA was to fire more than 30 prosecutors, including Mr. Vega, who joined the office in 1982 and went on to become the state’s first Latino homicide prosecutor.
end quotes
Now, there is a curious thing, indeed, people, and its name is “criminal coddling.”
Get rid of all the prosecutors!
They are the ones really causing all the problems, people, not the criminals, who are only criminals because there are prosecutors to call them that while prosecuting them, which of course makes the criminals feel bad about themselves, as opposed to all warm and squishy inside, which in turn makes the Progressives feel bad about themselves in sympathy for the criminals the Progressives like to coddle, because in the end, they are kindred spirits.
Getting back to the story, we have:
Mr. Krasner, 60, says he has kept key campaign promises by not seeking the death penalty, not prosecuting most simple drug-possession cases and moving away from cash bail for minor crimes.
end quotes
And there, people, is an interesting phenomena – a man runs for office as a prosecutor on a platform of not prosecuting people which gives him an election win that he then calls a mandate from the people to not prosecute other people, which seems to me a descent into anarchy, but hey, that is just me, so moving right along here, back to the story, we go:
He talks up the fact that he has brought criminal charges against dozens of police officers, but also says he works closely with the Police Department.
end quotes
BINGO!
There we have it, people – the police are really the criminals in Philadelphia and they need to be slapped down real hard, and this Progressive dude is just the dude to do so, which makes the Progressives and the criminals love the dude for his tough stance against the police!
Getting back to the story:
The rising murder toll poses a political liability for Mr. Krasner, said Caren Morrison, associate professor of law at Georgia State University, who has researched prosecutor races across the U.S.
Philadelphia had 499 homicides last year, the second-highest total on record, and this year has recorded 191 killings through Wednesday, a 39% increase from the same point in 2020, police figures show.
end quotes
Yes, people, a Progressive miracle, indeed, but let’s not stop there, because there is more yet to come, as follows:
Mr. Krasner says shootings and killings have risen in many U.S. cities during the coronavirus pandemic, which caused social upheaval, disrupted police work and largely shut down courts.
The election is “really a choice between the past and the future,” Mr. Krasner said in an interview.
“And this is a city with a very troubling past when it comes to prosecution, and when it comes to policing.”
end quotes
That’s why they call them “Progressives,” people, because they have progressed to the point of realizing that the real problem isn’t the criminals, it is the police and prosecutors who conspire to give criminals a bad name, when everybody, er, well, all Progressives, know that the criminals are really good people, which takes us back to the Wall Street Journal, as follows:
But the police union’s energetic support for Mr. Vega could benefit Mr. Krasner in a city where Black Lives Matters protests last year drew throngs to the streets.
During his 30-year career as a defense lawyer before becoming DA, Mr. Krasner filed 75 civil-rights lawsuits and represented Black Lives Matter activists.
end quotes
Which made him the ideal candidate for BLACK LIVES MATTER to put in office as the prosecuting attorney to insure that they would be immune from prosecution, which takes us back to this, to wit:
Billionaire investor George Soros backs Mr. Krasner.
The Soros-funded Safety and Justice political-action committee pumped $1.7 million into the 2017 race and had spent $270,000 as of Friday on this year’s campaign, said Whitney Tymas, the PAC’s president.
“We continue to support Larry Krasner because he is making Philadelphia fairer and more just,” Ms. Tymas said, citing the exonerations, a decrease in racial disparities and a shift to treating nonviolent drug crime as a public health issue.
end quotes
Yes, people, the future is now!
Which side are you going to find yourself on?
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 19, 2021 AT 5:25 PM
Paul Plante says:
And staying with the subject of this thread, which is so-called “police reform,” a nebulous term if ever there was one, a very slippery, amorphous (without a clearly defined shape or form; lacking a clear structure or focus) term, a Progressive Democrat term, and with this study of reforming the Albany, New York Police Department made a part of the record in here as essential background, which study was conducted as a NATIONAL COPS EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY: Albany, New York by David Thacher, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for the Urban League, let us for the moment go to an ABC News article entitled “Biden’s 1st 100 days: Promises kept, broken, or in progress – Here’s a look at how Biden measures up against markers he, himself, set” by Ben Gittleson, Molly Nagle, Sarah Kolinovsky, and Justin Gomez on April 26, 2021, where we have as follows to consider:
The promise: Create police oversight commission
Status: Not kept
In June, about one week after George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody, Biden vowed to create a national police oversight commission within the first 100 days of his administration, to study paths for police reform.
“We need each and every police department in the country to undertake a comprehensive review of their hiring, their training, their de-escalation,” Biden said in Philadelphia.
The Biden White House, however, frequently highlighted its support for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, passed by the House of Representatives in early March, rather than announcing the creation of the commission.
On April 12, White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice said the White House was officially scrapping any plans for a commission.
“Based on close, respectful consultation with partners in the civil rights community, the administration made the considered judgment that a police commission, at this time, would not be the most effective way to deliver on our top priority in this area, which is to sign the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act into law,” Rice said.
Both the Obama and the Trump administrations had formed commissions to study police reform and oversight, but neither commission led to any measurable change.
end quotes
How about because as we see from the Harvard study of the Albany Police Department, the reforms were done long ago?
And thankfully, the police here in the United States of America, at least not yet, anyway, do not answer to an American president, or take their orders and direction from an American president.
And before we go further into that study, let us take a look at exactly who the Urban League really is, so we can in turn judge whether the Harvard study of the Albany Police Department is a valid study, or a cover-up of rampant white nationalism and white supremacy and implicit bias against the “communities of color,” to wit:
The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.
The Urban League is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation.
Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the National Urban League spearheads the efforts of its local affiliates through the development of programs, public policy research and advocacy.
Today, there are nearly 100 local affiliates in 36 states and the District of Columbia, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide.
In 1970, a small group of citizens from Greenville met in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church with one goal in mind.
To create a community-based organization committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all citizens in housing, education, employment and economic development without regard to race or socioeconomic status.
From these meetings, the Greenville Urban League was established in 1972 with Theo Mitchell as its first President.
In 1997, understanding the needs of the Upstate Region, the name was changed to reflect the population served to Urban League of the Upstate.
Today, under the leadership of the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer Reverend Sean Dogan, the Urban League of the Upstate continues to support and advocate for the economic equality for African Americans by building strong and stable communities.
end quotes
Support and advocate for the economic equality for African Americans by building strong and stable communities?
My goodness, people sounds like something I would be for, and who in their right mind wouldn’t be?
So, would the Urban League then be having any kind of study conducted of the Albany, New York Police Department in order to cover over white nationalism, or white supremacy in the Albany Police Department?
Which is really a very stupid question when you think about it, because of course they wouldn’t.
As to that study, which with the good graces of the Cape Charles Mirror I would like to spend some time on with regard to this slippery issue of “police reform” as it is being bandied about today by those who call themselves “Progressives,” as if that name gave them some type of superiority with respect to intellectual capacity, it starts as follows, to wit:
Case Study Prepared for the Urban Institute
Introduction
Albany, New York is a city of just over 100,000 residents and a rich political history.
Though it has been the state capital since 1797, it is Albany’s local politics that have truly distinguished the city: Albany hosted the most enduring political machine in modern American history, one that kept a strong hold over most city affairs well into the 1970s and even the early 1980s.
But towards the end of this period the party’s hold on civic affairs began to weaken: Although Democratic voters still outnumber Republicans better than 10-to-1 in Albany, the Democratic organization no longer holds the iron grip on power that it once held, and today party leaders share power with employee unions, neighborhood groups, civil service boards, and independent administrators.
The Albany Police Department has evolved over the past two decades in response to these changes, and recent reforms labeled “community policing” have played a part in that evolution.
In some ways, community policing has meant a return to the past in Albany: Well into the 1980s, local police maintained a neighborhood-oriented force that emphasized foot patrol, and it was not until reform Mayor Thomas Whalen cut department staffing radically — from a patronage-swollen 415 in the 1970s to 300 by 1993 — that the APD shut down its popular neighborhood substations.
In part, community policing simply reversed these recent reforms by re-instituting foot patrol and by promising to re-open neighborhood substations.
But it also promised the city something different: Whereas in the past local police had taken guidance mostly from the formal political system, under community policing they pledged to listen to Albany’s newly-powerful neighborhood and business groups, and also to unorganized residents.
This case study chronicles the history of the APD community policing efforts in three stages.
Section I sets the context for change by reviewing the recent history of Albany’s police and its government more generally.
Section two, the heart of the study, then chronicles the reforms of the past four years in some detail, focusing on the strategies APD administrators and others used to put community policing in place.
Section three then sums up the consequences of change by briefly reviewing how the APD operates today.
end quotes
So, if the Albany Police Department has already been “reformed,” what reforms are Joe Biden and the Democrats asking for today?
What is wrong with the reforms to the Albany Police Department done yesterday?
Does Joe Biden even know those reforms took place?
Frankly, I seriously doubt it, and anyway, Joe’s blather about a police commission was bull**** talk all along.
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Paul Plante says:
And staying with the subject of this thread, which is so-called “police reform,” a nebulous term if ever there was one, a very slippery, amorphous (without a clearly defined shape or form; lacking a clear structure or focus) term, a Progressive Democrat term, and with this study of reforming the Albany, New York Police Department made a part of the record in here as essential background, which study was conducted as a NATIONAL COPS EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY: Albany, New York by David Thacher, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for the Urban League, let us for the moment go to an ABC News article entitled “Biden’s 1st 100 days: Promises kept, broken, or in progress – Here’s a look at how Biden measures up against markers he, himself, set” by Ben Gittleson, Molly Nagle, Sarah Kolinovsky, and Justin Gomez on April 26, 2021, where we have as follows to consider:
The promise: Create police oversight commission
Status: Not kept
In June, about one week after George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody, Biden vowed to create a national police oversight commission within the first 100 days of his administration, to study paths for police reform.
“We need each and every police department in the country to undertake a comprehensive review of their hiring, their training, their de-escalation,” Biden said in Philadelphia.
The Biden White House, however, frequently highlighted its support for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, passed by the House of Representatives in early March, rather than announcing the creation of the commission.
On April 12, White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice said the White House was officially scrapping any plans for a commission.
“Based on close, respectful consultation with partners in the civil rights community, the administration made the considered judgment that a police commission, at this time, would not be the most effective way to deliver on our top priority in this area, which is to sign the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act into law,” Rice said.
Both the Obama and the Trump administrations had formed commissions to study police reform and oversight, but neither commission led to any measurable change.
end quotes
How about because as we see from the Harvard study of the Albany Police Department, the reforms were done long ago?
And thankfully, the police here in the United States of America, at least not yet, anyway, do not answer to an American president, or take their orders and direction from an American president.
And before we go further into that study, let us take a look at exactly who the Urban League really is, so we can in turn judge whether the Harvard study of the Albany Police Department is a valid study, or a cover-up of rampant white nationalism and white supremacy and implicit bias against the “communities of color,” to wit:
The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.
The Urban League is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation.
Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the National Urban League spearheads the efforts of its local affiliates through the development of programs, public policy research and advocacy.
Today, there are nearly 100 local affiliates in 36 states and the District of Columbia, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide.
In 1970, a small group of citizens from Greenville met in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church with one goal in mind.
To create a community-based organization committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all citizens in housing, education, employment and economic development without regard to race or socioeconomic status.
From these meetings, the Greenville Urban League was established in 1972 with Theo Mitchell as its first President.
In 1997, understanding the needs of the Upstate Region, the name was changed to reflect the population served to Urban League of the Upstate.
Today, under the leadership of the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer Reverend Sean Dogan, the Urban League of the Upstate continues to support and advocate for the economic equality for African Americans by building strong and stable communities.
end quotes
Support and advocate for the economic equality for African Americans by building strong and stable communities?
My goodness, people sounds like something I would be for, and who in their right mind wouldn’t be?
So, would the Urban League then be having any kind of study conducted of the Albany, New York Police Department in order to cover over white nationalism, or white supremacy in the Albany Police Department?
Which is really a very stupid question when you think about it, because of course they wouldn’t.
As to that study, which with the good graces of the Cape Charles Mirror I would like to spend some time on with regard to this slippery issue of “police reform” as it is being bandied about today by those who call themselves “Progressives,” as if that name gave them some type of superiority with respect to intellectual capacity, it starts as follows, to wit:
Case Study Prepared for the Urban Institute
Introduction
Albany, New York is a city of just over 100,000 residents and a rich political history.
Though it has been the state capital since 1797, it is Albany’s local politics that have truly distinguished the city: Albany hosted the most enduring political machine in modern American history, one that kept a strong hold over most city affairs well into the 1970s and even the early 1980s.
But towards the end of this period the party’s hold on civic affairs began to weaken: Although Democratic voters still outnumber Republicans better than 10-to-1 in Albany, the Democratic organization no longer holds the iron grip on power that it once held, and today party leaders share power with employee unions, neighborhood groups, civil service boards, and independent administrators.
The Albany Police Department has evolved over the past two decades in response to these changes, and recent reforms labeled “community policing” have played a part in that evolution.
In some ways, community policing has meant a return to the past in Albany: Well into the 1980s, local police maintained a neighborhood-oriented force that emphasized foot patrol, and it was not until reform Mayor Thomas Whalen cut department staffing radically — from a patronage-swollen 415 in the 1970s to 300 by 1993 — that the APD shut down its popular neighborhood substations.
In part, community policing simply reversed these recent reforms by re-instituting foot patrol and by promising to re-open neighborhood substations.
But it also promised the city something different: Whereas in the past local police had taken guidance mostly from the formal political system, under community policing they pledged to listen to Albany’s newly-powerful neighborhood and business groups, and also to unorganized residents.
This case study chronicles the history of the APD community policing efforts in three stages.
Section I sets the context for change by reviewing the recent history of Albany’s police and its government more generally.
Section two, the heart of the study, then chronicles the reforms of the past four years in some detail, focusing on the strategies APD administrators and others used to put community policing in place.
Section three then sums up the consequences of change by briefly reviewing how the APD operates today.
end quotes
So, if the Albany Police Department has already been “reformed,” what reforms are Joe Biden and the Democrats asking for today?
What is wrong with the reforms to the Albany Police Department done yesterday?
Does Joe Biden even know those reforms took place?
Frankly, I seriously doubt it, and anyway, Joe’s blather about a police commission was bull**** talk all along.
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 20, 2021 AT 9:27 PM
Paul Plante says:
And staying on the subject of this thread which is so-called “police reform,” we must not forget as we engage in this analysis that all the cries and howls of the Progressives today for “police reform” are based on a blatant lie, an intentional falsehood made by then-Senator Kamala Harris, now Joe Biden’s vice president, God help the nation, in a mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, who identified herself in that 9 August 2019 TWEET as a “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, she posted her blatant lie leading to these Progressive calls for police reform, as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
end quotes
As has been said before, that conversation she is talking about is based on a lie that Michael Brown’s death was tragic in some way because he was “murdered” by police, and any conversation that starts out based on falsehood as is this one is fatally flawed right from the very outset, and can lead nowhere.
So, who are the police, anyway?
Why do we have them?
To catch run-away slaves?
And who really do they answer to?
Do they operate independently of politics?
Or are they in fact an arm of politics?
For a glimpse into that answer, let us go back to the study of the Albany, New York Police Department prepared for the Urban League, as follows:
I. THE ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH 1994
1. Relationship to the Environment
All public agencies submit to some form of public oversight, often distributed among elected officials, public-minded professionals, community groups, and administrative law.
But in the decades leading up to community policing, what was distinctive about the Albany Police Department was the degree to which this oversight was informally centralized in the hands of local politicians.
end quotes
Now, that is an important insight right there about the role of political interference in the operations of municipal police departments, and if anything needs to be reformed, it is that, which takes us back to the study, to wit:
The near monopoly of control that elected officials held over city agencies began to weaken in the 1980s, but many observers maintain that up until the 1970s, Albany government was firmly in the hands of a unified Democratic machine.
The Albany County Democratic Committee is the stuff of legends.
Presided over for some five decades by party leader Dan O’Connell, Albany Democrats held tight control over everything from elections, to taxes, to the criminal justice system, using their influence over those spheres to earn loyalty and maintain their hold on power.
end quotes
And in that maintaining of a hold on power, the Democrats wielded the police like a political weapon.
Getting back to the study, it continues thusly:
Although a few veteran city officials downplay the influence of the machine, most report that as late as the early 1980s, the party’s appointed ward leaders held sway over many important decisions — including where code inspections would be made, whether or not the city would collect on a parking ticket, and who the police department would hire and promote (civil service tests were widely considered toothless in Albany, one of the few large cities in New York to administer the test locally, and the state repeatedly admonished city officials for lax administration of hiring regulations).
Indeed, the special role of jobs in the patronage system led to an enlarged police department of some 415 officers in the 1970s, when LEAA funds boosted APD staffing considerably.
end quotes
For those unfamiliar with the LEAA, that stands for The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), which was a U.S. federal agency within the United States Department of Justice that administered federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies and funded educational programs, research, state planning agencies, and local crime initiatives as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on crime” program.
Yes, people, that is how far back this all goes – to the “war on crime” of Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, which takes us back to the LEAA, as follows:
The LEAA was established by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and was abolished in 1982.
Its predecessor agency was the Office of Law Enforcement Assistance (1965–1968).
Its successor agencies were the Office of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics (1982–1984) and the Office of Justice Programs.
LEAA included the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, which had its functions absorbed by the National Institute of Justice on December 27, 1979, with passage of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979.
The Act, which amended the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, also led to creation of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
LEAA included the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals.
In March 1973, the LEAA ordered any police department receiving federal funding to end minimum height requirements, which most women could not meet.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the LEAA promoted policing initiatives such as the STRESS (Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) in Detroit and CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) in Los Angeles.
end quotes
And these cries and howls for “reform” today, people, are coming from those who advocate for the street hoodlums, who have gained considerable political clout now that the internet and cell phones enable them to call together “flash mobs” at the drop of a hat to engage in “civil disobedience” and other acts of political violence, until the public officials cave and give them what they want, which is free rein and gelded police, which takes us back to the Albany study, to wit:
Ward leaders, of course, did not exercise their influence independently.
O’Connell and Albany Mayor Erastus Corning — whose 42-year tenure made him the longest-serving mayor in America — exercised strong discipline over party members: Well into the 1970s, it was highly unusual for any political position to be contested within the Democratic party, and to win the Democrats’ endorsement meant certain victory in open elections.
(Even in 1985, after the machine’s inexorable decline had taken root, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 16 to 1 in Albany.)
Indeed, “loyalty” has long been the watchword of Albany politics, and observers both credit it with making the system work and blame it for making it unbearable.
On the one hand, loyal party members — even those of the most modest means — could often expect immediate responses when they brought neighborhood or personal problems to the attention of their ward leaders, who gave Albany government a strong neighborhood focus that so-called “professional” city halls around the country could rarely match.
On the other hand, dissent was not welcome in Albany, and those who sought to organize their own power bases met with stiff resistance.
end quotes
Yes, people, dissent is not tolerated in Albany, New York!
Getting back to the study:
One example of this dynamic comes from repeated attempts by police to unionize, which did not succeed until the mid-1970s after a bitter fight with the Corning administration.
Another example emerged during the same period as neighborhood associations began to form in the city: Many observers report that Corning fought the groups and their proposals every step of the way, seeing them as an affront to the consolidated power of the political machine.
Finally, Corning also resisted organizing attempts in Albany’s black community, which was scantly represented in the Democratic Committee.
Indeed, Albany blacks have long had a contentious relationship with city hall — particularly the police department, which faced widespread accusations of brutality towards African-Americans.
end quotes
So, as I say, this study of the Albany Police is not a whitewash.
Rather, it is a very candid look into the necessary background history so that we can understand better exactly who it is today that is crying and howling for police reform of police departments that have been previously reformed by the federal government to give us safe streets, supposedly.
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Paul Plante says:
And staying on the subject of this thread which is so-called “police reform,” we must not forget as we engage in this analysis that all the cries and howls of the Progressives today for “police reform” are based on a blatant lie, an intentional falsehood made by then-Senator Kamala Harris, now Joe Biden’s vice president, God help the nation, in a mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, who identified herself in that 9 August 2019 TWEET as a “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, she posted her blatant lie leading to these Progressive calls for police reform, as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
end quotes
As has been said before, that conversation she is talking about is based on a lie that Michael Brown’s death was tragic in some way because he was “murdered” by police, and any conversation that starts out based on falsehood as is this one is fatally flawed right from the very outset, and can lead nowhere.
So, who are the police, anyway?
Why do we have them?
To catch run-away slaves?
And who really do they answer to?
Do they operate independently of politics?
Or are they in fact an arm of politics?
For a glimpse into that answer, let us go back to the study of the Albany, New York Police Department prepared for the Urban League, as follows:
I. THE ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH 1994
1. Relationship to the Environment
All public agencies submit to some form of public oversight, often distributed among elected officials, public-minded professionals, community groups, and administrative law.
But in the decades leading up to community policing, what was distinctive about the Albany Police Department was the degree to which this oversight was informally centralized in the hands of local politicians.
end quotes
Now, that is an important insight right there about the role of political interference in the operations of municipal police departments, and if anything needs to be reformed, it is that, which takes us back to the study, to wit:
The near monopoly of control that elected officials held over city agencies began to weaken in the 1980s, but many observers maintain that up until the 1970s, Albany government was firmly in the hands of a unified Democratic machine.
The Albany County Democratic Committee is the stuff of legends.
Presided over for some five decades by party leader Dan O’Connell, Albany Democrats held tight control over everything from elections, to taxes, to the criminal justice system, using their influence over those spheres to earn loyalty and maintain their hold on power.
end quotes
And in that maintaining of a hold on power, the Democrats wielded the police like a political weapon.
Getting back to the study, it continues thusly:
Although a few veteran city officials downplay the influence of the machine, most report that as late as the early 1980s, the party’s appointed ward leaders held sway over many important decisions — including where code inspections would be made, whether or not the city would collect on a parking ticket, and who the police department would hire and promote (civil service tests were widely considered toothless in Albany, one of the few large cities in New York to administer the test locally, and the state repeatedly admonished city officials for lax administration of hiring regulations).
Indeed, the special role of jobs in the patronage system led to an enlarged police department of some 415 officers in the 1970s, when LEAA funds boosted APD staffing considerably.
end quotes
For those unfamiliar with the LEAA, that stands for The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), which was a U.S. federal agency within the United States Department of Justice that administered federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies and funded educational programs, research, state planning agencies, and local crime initiatives as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on crime” program.
Yes, people, that is how far back this all goes – to the “war on crime” of Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, which takes us back to the LEAA, as follows:
The LEAA was established by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and was abolished in 1982.
Its predecessor agency was the Office of Law Enforcement Assistance (1965–1968).
Its successor agencies were the Office of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics (1982–1984) and the Office of Justice Programs.
LEAA included the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, which had its functions absorbed by the National Institute of Justice on December 27, 1979, with passage of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979.
The Act, which amended the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, also led to creation of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
LEAA included the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals.
In March 1973, the LEAA ordered any police department receiving federal funding to end minimum height requirements, which most women could not meet.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the LEAA promoted policing initiatives such as the STRESS (Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) in Detroit and CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) in Los Angeles.
end quotes
And these cries and howls for “reform” today, people, are coming from those who advocate for the street hoodlums, who have gained considerable political clout now that the internet and cell phones enable them to call together “flash mobs” at the drop of a hat to engage in “civil disobedience” and other acts of political violence, until the public officials cave and give them what they want, which is free rein and gelded police, which takes us back to the Albany study, to wit:
Ward leaders, of course, did not exercise their influence independently.
O’Connell and Albany Mayor Erastus Corning — whose 42-year tenure made him the longest-serving mayor in America — exercised strong discipline over party members: Well into the 1970s, it was highly unusual for any political position to be contested within the Democratic party, and to win the Democrats’ endorsement meant certain victory in open elections.
(Even in 1985, after the machine’s inexorable decline had taken root, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 16 to 1 in Albany.)
Indeed, “loyalty” has long been the watchword of Albany politics, and observers both credit it with making the system work and blame it for making it unbearable.
On the one hand, loyal party members — even those of the most modest means — could often expect immediate responses when they brought neighborhood or personal problems to the attention of their ward leaders, who gave Albany government a strong neighborhood focus that so-called “professional” city halls around the country could rarely match.
On the other hand, dissent was not welcome in Albany, and those who sought to organize their own power bases met with stiff resistance.
end quotes
Yes, people, dissent is not tolerated in Albany, New York!
Getting back to the study:
One example of this dynamic comes from repeated attempts by police to unionize, which did not succeed until the mid-1970s after a bitter fight with the Corning administration.
Another example emerged during the same period as neighborhood associations began to form in the city: Many observers report that Corning fought the groups and their proposals every step of the way, seeing them as an affront to the consolidated power of the political machine.
Finally, Corning also resisted organizing attempts in Albany’s black community, which was scantly represented in the Democratic Committee.
Indeed, Albany blacks have long had a contentious relationship with city hall — particularly the police department, which faced widespread accusations of brutality towards African-Americans.
end quotes
So, as I say, this study of the Albany Police is not a whitewash.
Rather, it is a very candid look into the necessary background history so that we can understand better exactly who it is today that is crying and howling for police reform of police departments that have been previously reformed by the federal government to give us safe streets, supposedly.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-354454
Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 21, 2021 AT 5:52 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here, since this subject of “police reform” is a serious subject affecting all of us in the United States, what I would like to do at this point is to take us back in time in our political history to March 9, 1966 and a “Special Message to the Congress on Crime and Law Enforcement” by Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, which is where this subject of “police reform” in America properly begins, to wit:
To the Congress of the United States:
Crime – the fact of crime and the fear of crime – marks the life of every American.
end quotes
1966, people, which is fifty-five (55) years ago, and where have we gotten to since then?
Think about it, as these calls for “police reform” swell around us based on a blatant falsehood by now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris when she was a senator that Michael Brown was murdered by the police.
Getting back to LBJ on March 9, 1966:
We know its unrelenting pace:
–a forcible rape every 26 minutes,
–a robbery every five minutes,
–an aggravated assault every three minutes,
–a car theft every minute,
–a burglary every 28 seconds.
We know its cost in dollars – some $27 billion annually.
We know the cost it inflicts on thousands – in death, injury, suffering and anguish.
We know the still more widespread cost it exacts from millions in fear:
–Fear that can turn us into a nation of captives imprisoned nightly behind chained doors, double locks, barred windows.
–Fear that can make us afraid to walk city streets by night or public parks by day.
These are costs a truly free people cannot tolerate.
end quotes
Now, again, think about those words, people – “These are costs a truly free people cannot tolerate.”
Is that still true?
Or have the times truly changed to where we now have to accept those costs a truly free people would not tolerate, because we are no longer a truly free people?
Getting back to LBJ, he goes on as follows:
The war against crime may be slowing its increase for the moment.
The most recent report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation show a 5% increase for 1965, compared to a 13% increase for 1964.
But we can take little comfort from such facts.
We must not only slow, but stop–and ultimately reverse–the rate of crime increase.
The entire nation is united in concern over crime.
end quotes
But is that still true today?
Is the entire nation really united in concern over crime today?
Or is there a segment of the population that is really more concerned about the criminals, and how they feel about themselves?
For that answer, simply consider Kamala Harris and her TWEETED falsehood about the police “murdering” Michael Brown, which takes us back to LBJ, as follows:
The entire nation shares in the resolution to deal effectively with crime.
end quotes
And that is not at all true today – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York want to coddle the criminals to make them feel good about themselves and all warm and squishy inside, which again takes us back in time to a much different day in America than exists now, to wit:
But national concern is not enough.
National resolution is not enough.
We must match our will with wisdom.
We must match our determination with effective action.
The safety and security of its citizens is the first duty of government.
end quotes
Now, there is an interesting thought, is it not – the safety and security of its citizens is the first duty of government.
But again, is that really true today?
Or has the philosophy of government so radically changed in the intervening years to where that is no longer true, and instead, according to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan of Albany and the Democrats, the safety and security of its citizens is the last duty of government, while the first is coddling the criminals?
Going back in time to a different age, we have LBJ continuing as follows:
Today, therefore, I call on the Congress and the nation to join in a three-stage national strategy against crime, welding together the efforts of local, state, and federal governments.
end quotes
And today, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, what do we have?
Cries from them that the police are the criminals?
Cries from them that the police are corrupt and in need of reform?
Based on what?
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Paul Plante says:
And here, since this subject of “police reform” is a serious subject affecting all of us in the United States, what I would like to do at this point is to take us back in time in our political history to March 9, 1966 and a “Special Message to the Congress on Crime and Law Enforcement” by Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, which is where this subject of “police reform” in America properly begins, to wit:
To the Congress of the United States:
Crime – the fact of crime and the fear of crime – marks the life of every American.
end quotes
1966, people, which is fifty-five (55) years ago, and where have we gotten to since then?
Think about it, as these calls for “police reform” swell around us based on a blatant falsehood by now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris when she was a senator that Michael Brown was murdered by the police.
Getting back to LBJ on March 9, 1966:
We know its unrelenting pace:
–a forcible rape every 26 minutes,
–a robbery every five minutes,
–an aggravated assault every three minutes,
–a car theft every minute,
–a burglary every 28 seconds.
We know its cost in dollars – some $27 billion annually.
We know the cost it inflicts on thousands – in death, injury, suffering and anguish.
We know the still more widespread cost it exacts from millions in fear:
–Fear that can turn us into a nation of captives imprisoned nightly behind chained doors, double locks, barred windows.
–Fear that can make us afraid to walk city streets by night or public parks by day.
These are costs a truly free people cannot tolerate.
end quotes
Now, again, think about those words, people – “These are costs a truly free people cannot tolerate.”
Is that still true?
Or have the times truly changed to where we now have to accept those costs a truly free people would not tolerate, because we are no longer a truly free people?
Getting back to LBJ, he goes on as follows:
The war against crime may be slowing its increase for the moment.
The most recent report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation show a 5% increase for 1965, compared to a 13% increase for 1964.
But we can take little comfort from such facts.
We must not only slow, but stop–and ultimately reverse–the rate of crime increase.
The entire nation is united in concern over crime.
end quotes
But is that still true today?
Is the entire nation really united in concern over crime today?
Or is there a segment of the population that is really more concerned about the criminals, and how they feel about themselves?
For that answer, simply consider Kamala Harris and her TWEETED falsehood about the police “murdering” Michael Brown, which takes us back to LBJ, as follows:
The entire nation shares in the resolution to deal effectively with crime.
end quotes
And that is not at all true today – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York want to coddle the criminals to make them feel good about themselves and all warm and squishy inside, which again takes us back in time to a much different day in America than exists now, to wit:
But national concern is not enough.
National resolution is not enough.
We must match our will with wisdom.
We must match our determination with effective action.
The safety and security of its citizens is the first duty of government.
end quotes
Now, there is an interesting thought, is it not – the safety and security of its citizens is the first duty of government.
But again, is that really true today?
Or has the philosophy of government so radically changed in the intervening years to where that is no longer true, and instead, according to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan of Albany and the Democrats, the safety and security of its citizens is the last duty of government, while the first is coddling the criminals?
Going back in time to a different age, we have LBJ continuing as follows:
Today, therefore, I call on the Congress and the nation to join in a three-stage national strategy against crime, welding together the efforts of local, state, and federal governments.
end quotes
And today, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, what do we have?
Cries from them that the police are the criminals?
Cries from them that the police are corrupt and in need of reform?
Based on what?
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 22, 2021 AT 11:01 PM
Paul Plante says:
March 9, 1966, people!
Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson delivers a “Special Message to the Congress on Crime and Law Enforcement” which is where this subject of “police reform” in America properly begins, to wit:
To the Congress of the United States:
Crime – the fact of crime and the fear of crime - marks the life of every American.
end quotes
So, fifty-five (55) years later, in 2021, where have we gotten to since then?
Does crime – the fact of crime and the fear of crime – still mark the life of every American?
For that answer, let us go to the Democrat-controlled sanctuary city of Albany, New York, where it is the police who are under siege, not the criminals, and the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we have an answer to that question, as follows:
ALBANY — Two men are dead and five others were injured by gunfire in two unrelated incidents that happened within 1 mile and a few hours of each other Friday, Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said at a news conference Friday night.
The first shooting, which occurred around 2:30 p.m. at the corner of Quail and First streets in the city’s West Hill neighborhood, left one dead and five injured, Hawkins said.
He described the 35-year-old homicide victim as an innocent bystander who was caught in a drive-by shooting.
The man was shot in the back and transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Hawkins said.
end quotes
Yes, people, an innocent bystander, which is why I do not go to Albany, New York, because I value my life too much to take a chance on having it taken from me in that lawless city under Democrat Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan, who wants us all to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER, which takes us back to her city, as follow:
The second shooting took place at 6:30 p.m. near Henry Johnson Boulevard and Central Avenue, where a bloody 39-year-old man stumbled into the street and later died at Albany Med after being shot in the torso, Hawkins said.
In the hours after the first shooting, five men sought medical attention at area hospitals for gunshot wounds that police believe are connected to the drive-by, according to Hawkins.
A 23-year-old wounded in the torso, a 28-year-old with a leg wound and a third, age 29, shot in the buttocks, all were treated at Albany Med; Memorial Hospital in Albany saw a 29-year-old who had been shot in the foot; and, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, a 21-year-old man arrived with a bullet wound to the hand, Hawkins said.
Nothing to be concerned about, just another typical day in Kathy Sheehan’s sanctuary city where she does her level best to assure that the criminals are protected from the police, not society being protected from the criminals, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
Characterizing the people involved with the First and Quail drive-by as having “no regard for human life,” Hawkins said, “One common theme that we’re seeing with these homicides is that they are involving young men who are not resolving conflicts in nonviolent, peaceful ways.”
end quotes
Wow, no kidding.
And why would that be, does anyone think?
Why would young men having “no regard for human life” in a sanctuary city where the police are under siege by the administration of Kathy Sheehan resolve conflicts in nonviolent, peaceful ways?
What incentive is there for them to do that when there is no disincentive for them resolving their tribal conflicts in violent, non-peaceful ways?
Which thought takes us to another Times Union story entitled “Arbitrator’s exoneration of Albany officer draws Sheehan’s ire – Mayor writes letter criticizing ‘racially biased conclusions’ in First St. case” by Steve Hughes on March 16, 2021, to wit:
Updated: March 16, 2021 7 p.m.
ALBANY — An independent arbitrator exonerated city police officer Matthew Seeber of all charges last week for his role in an incident on March 2019 on First Street.
In response, Mayor Kathy Sheehan wrote a letter to the state board that handles police arbitration, criticizing the arbitrator’s “racially biased conclusions,” and asking the board to stop using him.
Robert J. Rabin, the arbitrator who heard the case, said at its core it was about a judgment call by Seeber.
He wrote that the department failed to provide enough evidence that Seeber acted improperly or against his training.
In his decision, Rabin cited Deputy Chief Edward Donohue, who testified on behalf of the department.
Donohue admitted under cross-examination that his personal opinion was that Seeber shouldn’t have been fired.
Rabin agreed with that assessment and suggested that Seeber’s firing was the result of public outrage.
“I’m fairly confident that this is what the department would have done if this incident had not gone viral,” he wrote.
On Monday, Sheehan wrote a letter to the state Public Employee Relations Board, asking it not to use Rabin as an arbitrator anymore.
Sheehan wrote not only did she disagree with Rabin’s decision but that she believed racial bias played a role in it.
Sheehan took issue with Rabin’s general description of the surrounding neighborhood and the people in the home itself.
“One need only look to the first paragraph of the opinion to see he skipped the dog whistle and went right to clear bias and racial animus,” she wrote.
In the opening of his decision, based off six days of testimony from city police officers and department leaders, Rabin calls First Street a rough part of town and those inside 523 First St. “dangerous.”
“This was not simply a raucous college party, like many in the nearby neighborhood, or a book club celebrating its final meeting of the season.”
“No, these were dangerous criminals, including drug dealers, who had committed violent acts in the past…”
“Most of the participants were probably armed,” he wrote.
In a phone call Tuesday, Rabin said that summary was based on testimony and evidence entered into the record and that focusing on that paragraph ignored evidence he used to draw his legal conclusions.
He denied that racial bias played a role in his decision.
“People may disagree with my decisions, but nobody’s ever questioned my integrity or my motivations,” he said.
In an interview Tuesday, Sheehan said the decision to exonerate Seeber makes it more difficult for Hawkins and other city leaders to create a culture change in the police department.
“I was so shocked and offended by the tone,” she said.
“I believe that the officer in this case benefited from an arbitrator who shared his racial bias.”
The city is bound by state law and its union contract to use the board and its panel of arbitrators when it comes to discipline appeals.
Sheehan said the city did not have a viable route to appeal the decision.
Councilman Jahmel Robinson, who represents the West Hill neighborhood, said the decision would only serve to cause further pain in the neighborhood.
“It’s a clear example of systemic racism that permeates our legal system,” he said.
“Because if they could do this to one house, what is to say it can’t happen to the next-door neighbor.”
end quotes
Which brings us back to today, as follows:
He said the brazenness of Friday’s two daytime shootings, coming less than three weeks after 18-year-old Chyna Forney was shot in the back and killed at 2:30 p.m. on a school day in Albany, were evidence of a disturbing escalation and indicative of larger social problems that require sustained, comprehensive measures beyond immediate police response and stepped-up patrols.
Other elected officials at the news conference, held outside Albany police headquarters on Henry Johnson Boulevard, echoed Hawkins’ sentiment, including Mayor Kathy Sheehan, who called the shootings “traumatizing to the community,” and Albany Common Council members Joyce Love, whose Third Ward includes the site of Friday’s Central Avenue shooting, and Jahmel K. Robinson of the Fifth Ward, where the drive-by took place.
“Gun violence is symptomatic of systemic issues,” Robinson said.
end quotes
Hey, Jahmel, dude, no kidding!
And that is on you, not the Albany Police you people are trying to geld and hamstring to protect those same criminals.
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Paul Plante says:
March 9, 1966, people!
Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson delivers a “Special Message to the Congress on Crime and Law Enforcement” which is where this subject of “police reform” in America properly begins, to wit:
To the Congress of the United States:
Crime – the fact of crime and the fear of crime - marks the life of every American.
end quotes
So, fifty-five (55) years later, in 2021, where have we gotten to since then?
Does crime – the fact of crime and the fear of crime – still mark the life of every American?
For that answer, let us go to the Democrat-controlled sanctuary city of Albany, New York, where it is the police who are under siege, not the criminals, and the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we have an answer to that question, as follows:
ALBANY — Two men are dead and five others were injured by gunfire in two unrelated incidents that happened within 1 mile and a few hours of each other Friday, Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said at a news conference Friday night.
The first shooting, which occurred around 2:30 p.m. at the corner of Quail and First streets in the city’s West Hill neighborhood, left one dead and five injured, Hawkins said.
He described the 35-year-old homicide victim as an innocent bystander who was caught in a drive-by shooting.
The man was shot in the back and transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Hawkins said.
end quotes
Yes, people, an innocent bystander, which is why I do not go to Albany, New York, because I value my life too much to take a chance on having it taken from me in that lawless city under Democrat Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan, who wants us all to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER, which takes us back to her city, as follow:
The second shooting took place at 6:30 p.m. near Henry Johnson Boulevard and Central Avenue, where a bloody 39-year-old man stumbled into the street and later died at Albany Med after being shot in the torso, Hawkins said.
In the hours after the first shooting, five men sought medical attention at area hospitals for gunshot wounds that police believe are connected to the drive-by, according to Hawkins.
A 23-year-old wounded in the torso, a 28-year-old with a leg wound and a third, age 29, shot in the buttocks, all were treated at Albany Med; Memorial Hospital in Albany saw a 29-year-old who had been shot in the foot; and, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, a 21-year-old man arrived with a bullet wound to the hand, Hawkins said.
Nothing to be concerned about, just another typical day in Kathy Sheehan’s sanctuary city where she does her level best to assure that the criminals are protected from the police, not society being protected from the criminals, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
Characterizing the people involved with the First and Quail drive-by as having “no regard for human life,” Hawkins said, “One common theme that we’re seeing with these homicides is that they are involving young men who are not resolving conflicts in nonviolent, peaceful ways.”
end quotes
Wow, no kidding.
And why would that be, does anyone think?
Why would young men having “no regard for human life” in a sanctuary city where the police are under siege by the administration of Kathy Sheehan resolve conflicts in nonviolent, peaceful ways?
What incentive is there for them to do that when there is no disincentive for them resolving their tribal conflicts in violent, non-peaceful ways?
Which thought takes us to another Times Union story entitled “Arbitrator’s exoneration of Albany officer draws Sheehan’s ire – Mayor writes letter criticizing ‘racially biased conclusions’ in First St. case” by Steve Hughes on March 16, 2021, to wit:
Updated: March 16, 2021 7 p.m.
ALBANY — An independent arbitrator exonerated city police officer Matthew Seeber of all charges last week for his role in an incident on March 2019 on First Street.
In response, Mayor Kathy Sheehan wrote a letter to the state board that handles police arbitration, criticizing the arbitrator’s “racially biased conclusions,” and asking the board to stop using him.
Robert J. Rabin, the arbitrator who heard the case, said at its core it was about a judgment call by Seeber.
He wrote that the department failed to provide enough evidence that Seeber acted improperly or against his training.
In his decision, Rabin cited Deputy Chief Edward Donohue, who testified on behalf of the department.
Donohue admitted under cross-examination that his personal opinion was that Seeber shouldn’t have been fired.
Rabin agreed with that assessment and suggested that Seeber’s firing was the result of public outrage.
“I’m fairly confident that this is what the department would have done if this incident had not gone viral,” he wrote.
On Monday, Sheehan wrote a letter to the state Public Employee Relations Board, asking it not to use Rabin as an arbitrator anymore.
Sheehan wrote not only did she disagree with Rabin’s decision but that she believed racial bias played a role in it.
Sheehan took issue with Rabin’s general description of the surrounding neighborhood and the people in the home itself.
“One need only look to the first paragraph of the opinion to see he skipped the dog whistle and went right to clear bias and racial animus,” she wrote.
In the opening of his decision, based off six days of testimony from city police officers and department leaders, Rabin calls First Street a rough part of town and those inside 523 First St. “dangerous.”
“This was not simply a raucous college party, like many in the nearby neighborhood, or a book club celebrating its final meeting of the season.”
“No, these were dangerous criminals, including drug dealers, who had committed violent acts in the past…”
“Most of the participants were probably armed,” he wrote.
In a phone call Tuesday, Rabin said that summary was based on testimony and evidence entered into the record and that focusing on that paragraph ignored evidence he used to draw his legal conclusions.
He denied that racial bias played a role in his decision.
“People may disagree with my decisions, but nobody’s ever questioned my integrity or my motivations,” he said.
In an interview Tuesday, Sheehan said the decision to exonerate Seeber makes it more difficult for Hawkins and other city leaders to create a culture change in the police department.
“I was so shocked and offended by the tone,” she said.
“I believe that the officer in this case benefited from an arbitrator who shared his racial bias.”
The city is bound by state law and its union contract to use the board and its panel of arbitrators when it comes to discipline appeals.
Sheehan said the city did not have a viable route to appeal the decision.
Councilman Jahmel Robinson, who represents the West Hill neighborhood, said the decision would only serve to cause further pain in the neighborhood.
“It’s a clear example of systemic racism that permeates our legal system,” he said.
“Because if they could do this to one house, what is to say it can’t happen to the next-door neighbor.”
end quotes
Which brings us back to today, as follows:
He said the brazenness of Friday’s two daytime shootings, coming less than three weeks after 18-year-old Chyna Forney was shot in the back and killed at 2:30 p.m. on a school day in Albany, were evidence of a disturbing escalation and indicative of larger social problems that require sustained, comprehensive measures beyond immediate police response and stepped-up patrols.
Other elected officials at the news conference, held outside Albany police headquarters on Henry Johnson Boulevard, echoed Hawkins’ sentiment, including Mayor Kathy Sheehan, who called the shootings “traumatizing to the community,” and Albany Common Council members Joyce Love, whose Third Ward includes the site of Friday’s Central Avenue shooting, and Jahmel K. Robinson of the Fifth Ward, where the drive-by took place.
“Gun violence is symptomatic of systemic issues,” Robinson said.
end quotes
Hey, Jahmel, dude, no kidding!
And that is on you, not the Albany Police you people are trying to geld and hamstring to protect those same criminals.
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 24, 2021 AT 6:42 PM
Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of “THE BIG LIE” as a daily part of our lives in America today, never in my life do I recall getting barraged by so much pure BULL**** as is the case with this topic of Progressive “police reform,” as stated above, a nebulous term if ever there was one, a very slippery, amorphous (without a clearly defined shape or form; lacking a clear structure or focus) term so typical of the terms the Progressives use, like “systemic,” which calls for “reform” by the Progressives are based on nothing more than an intentionally false and mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, on 9 August 2019 by now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris identifying herself in the TWEET as “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
end quotes
It continues to amaze me that Kamala Harris could openly tell such a brazen lie and not get called for it in any way by either the American people, who are so used to getting lied to by people like Kamala Harris that they just accept the lies as their due for being ignorant and not knowing the difference, or the media, which not only accepts the lies, but helps to propagate them without question, which thought takes me back in time to these words of wisdom from the immortal Dr. Martin L. King, who should be an inspiration to us all, to wit:
“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.”
end quotes
Now, seriously, people, is there anyone out there who can dispute that – that education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction?
Asked another way, would anyone in their right mind who was rational and lucid make any attempt whatsoever to dispute that?
So why does that not seem to apply to the main-stream media?
Getting back to Dr. King, we have further as follows:
“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
end quotes
And amen to that say I as an older American, which raises this existential question, to wit:
IF the function of education truly is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically, why are so many people in America today incapable of doing either?
And that question takes us back to a Daily Caller article entitled “Hillary Tells Black Church White People Must End ‘Systemic Racism’” by Alex Pfeiffer, White House Correspondent, on April 20, 2016, where we had Hillary Clinton, one of Joe Biden’s “Electors” in the “Electoral College,” whose electoral vote for Joe Biden was being counted in the empty ritual in the Capital on 6 January 2021, long after Joe had been declared the president by Nancy Pelosi, being quoted as follows with respect to how Hillary, whose Electoral College vote put Joe Biden into the white house, views “racial justice,” to wit:
PHILADELPHIA — In a visit to a black church Wednesday, Hillary Clinton told the predominately African-American audience that it is the “responsibility of white people” to end systemic racism and incorrectly stated a popular hip-hop phrase in saying we will “ride and die.”
Clinton was visiting the St. Paul’s Baptist Church along with “The Mothers of the Movement” and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Mothers of the Movement consisted of mothers who had lost loved ones in police shootings.
The panel included the mother of Sandra Bland and the fiancee of Sean Bell.
The stated topics of the event were police brutality, mass incarceration, gun violence and racism.
“We have to be honest about systemic racism and particularly the responsibility of white people, not just people in public life but all of us,” Hillary said.
She later said at the event, “We all have implicit biases.”
“They are almost in the DNA going back probably millennia.”
“And what we need to do is be more honest about that and surface them.”
Clinton added, “I don’t have the answers, I’m not a behavioral psychologist or anything, but I think that needs to be done in every community kind of setting we can find that is open to doing it.”
end quotes
And acting in strict accordance with the admonition of Dr. King to use our education to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically with regard to this political horse**** from Hillary Clinton that “(W)e all have implicit biases; they are almost in the DNA going back probably millennia.” to show how much ignorant bull**** that is, I want to go back even further in time to November 15, 1787 and the Brutus III political essay to the Citizens of the State of New-York where we have as follows:
“In a free state.” says the celebrated Montesquieu, “every man who is supposed to be a free agent, ought to be concerned in his own government.”
“Therefore the legislature should reside in the whole body of the people, or their representatives.”
But it has never been alledged that those who are not free agents, can, upon any rational principle, have any thing to do in government, either by themselves or others.
If they have no share in government. why is the number of members in the assembly, to be increased on their account?
Is it because in some of the states, a considerable part of the property of the inhabitants consists in a number of their fellow men, who are held in bondage, in defiance of every idea of benevolence, justice, and religion, and contrary to all the principles of liberty, which have been publickly avowed in the late glorious revolution?
If this be a just ground for representation, the horses in some of the states, and the oxen in others, ought to be represented — for a great share of property in some of them consists in these animals; and they have as much controul over their own actions, as these poor unhappy creatures, who are intended to be described in the above recited clause, by the words, “all other persons.”
By this mode of apportionment, the representatives of the different parts of the union, will be extremely unequal: in some of the southern states, the slaves are nearly equal in number to the free men; and for all these slaves, they will be entitled to a proportionate share in the legislature — this will give them an unreasonable weight in the government, which can derive no additional strength, protection, nor defence from the slaves, but the contrary.
Why then should they be represented?
What adds to the evil is, that these states are to be permitted to continue the inhuman traffic of importing slaves, until the year 1808 — and for every cargo of these unhappy people, which unfeeling. unprincipled, barbarous, and avaricious wretches, may tear from their country, friends and tender connections, and bring into those states, they are to be rewarded by having an increase of members in the general assembly.
end quotes
Ask yourselves this question, people, if there really were implicit biases almost in the DNA going back probably millennia as Hillary Clinton would have us believe, why would Brutus give a damn about the Black folks being made slaves in his essay, given that Brutus was alive in the real time of slavery?
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Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of “THE BIG LIE” as a daily part of our lives in America today, never in my life do I recall getting barraged by so much pure BULL**** as is the case with this topic of Progressive “police reform,” as stated above, a nebulous term if ever there was one, a very slippery, amorphous (without a clearly defined shape or form; lacking a clear structure or focus) term so typical of the terms the Progressives use, like “systemic,” which calls for “reform” by the Progressives are based on nothing more than an intentionally false and mindless, senseless, reckless and inflammatory (tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult: seditious: tending to inflame or excite the senses) TWEET on mindless TWITTER, a website for people in America with weak intellects and not much sense, and no ability whatsoever to engage in the type of critical thinking demanded of an American citizen in order to keep our REPUBLIC strong, on 9 August 2019 by now-Biden vice president Kamala Harris identifying herself in the TWEET as “United States government official,” which makes her TWEET an official government TWEET, as follows:
“Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”
“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”
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It continues to amaze me that Kamala Harris could openly tell such a brazen lie and not get called for it in any way by either the American people, who are so used to getting lied to by people like Kamala Harris that they just accept the lies as their due for being ignorant and not knowing the difference, or the media, which not only accepts the lies, but helps to propagate them without question, which thought takes me back in time to these words of wisdom from the immortal Dr. Martin L. King, who should be an inspiration to us all, to wit:
“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.”
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Now, seriously, people, is there anyone out there who can dispute that – that education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction?
Asked another way, would anyone in their right mind who was rational and lucid make any attempt whatsoever to dispute that?
So why does that not seem to apply to the main-stream media?
Getting back to Dr. King, we have further as follows:
“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
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And amen to that say I as an older American, which raises this existential question, to wit:
IF the function of education truly is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically, why are so many people in America today incapable of doing either?
And that question takes us back to a Daily Caller article entitled “Hillary Tells Black Church White People Must End ‘Systemic Racism’” by Alex Pfeiffer, White House Correspondent, on April 20, 2016, where we had Hillary Clinton, one of Joe Biden’s “Electors” in the “Electoral College,” whose electoral vote for Joe Biden was being counted in the empty ritual in the Capital on 6 January 2021, long after Joe had been declared the president by Nancy Pelosi, being quoted as follows with respect to how Hillary, whose Electoral College vote put Joe Biden into the white house, views “racial justice,” to wit:
PHILADELPHIA — In a visit to a black church Wednesday, Hillary Clinton told the predominately African-American audience that it is the “responsibility of white people” to end systemic racism and incorrectly stated a popular hip-hop phrase in saying we will “ride and die.”
Clinton was visiting the St. Paul’s Baptist Church along with “The Mothers of the Movement” and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Mothers of the Movement consisted of mothers who had lost loved ones in police shootings.
The panel included the mother of Sandra Bland and the fiancee of Sean Bell.
The stated topics of the event were police brutality, mass incarceration, gun violence and racism.
“We have to be honest about systemic racism and particularly the responsibility of white people, not just people in public life but all of us,” Hillary said.
She later said at the event, “We all have implicit biases.”
“They are almost in the DNA going back probably millennia.”
“And what we need to do is be more honest about that and surface them.”
Clinton added, “I don’t have the answers, I’m not a behavioral psychologist or anything, but I think that needs to be done in every community kind of setting we can find that is open to doing it.”
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And acting in strict accordance with the admonition of Dr. King to use our education to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically with regard to this political horse**** from Hillary Clinton that “(W)e all have implicit biases; they are almost in the DNA going back probably millennia.” to show how much ignorant bull**** that is, I want to go back even further in time to November 15, 1787 and the Brutus III political essay to the Citizens of the State of New-York where we have as follows:
“In a free state.” says the celebrated Montesquieu, “every man who is supposed to be a free agent, ought to be concerned in his own government.”
“Therefore the legislature should reside in the whole body of the people, or their representatives.”
But it has never been alledged that those who are not free agents, can, upon any rational principle, have any thing to do in government, either by themselves or others.
If they have no share in government. why is the number of members in the assembly, to be increased on their account?
Is it because in some of the states, a considerable part of the property of the inhabitants consists in a number of their fellow men, who are held in bondage, in defiance of every idea of benevolence, justice, and religion, and contrary to all the principles of liberty, which have been publickly avowed in the late glorious revolution?
If this be a just ground for representation, the horses in some of the states, and the oxen in others, ought to be represented — for a great share of property in some of them consists in these animals; and they have as much controul over their own actions, as these poor unhappy creatures, who are intended to be described in the above recited clause, by the words, “all other persons.”
By this mode of apportionment, the representatives of the different parts of the union, will be extremely unequal: in some of the southern states, the slaves are nearly equal in number to the free men; and for all these slaves, they will be entitled to a proportionate share in the legislature — this will give them an unreasonable weight in the government, which can derive no additional strength, protection, nor defence from the slaves, but the contrary.
Why then should they be represented?
What adds to the evil is, that these states are to be permitted to continue the inhuman traffic of importing slaves, until the year 1808 — and for every cargo of these unhappy people, which unfeeling. unprincipled, barbarous, and avaricious wretches, may tear from their country, friends and tender connections, and bring into those states, they are to be rewarded by having an increase of members in the general assembly.
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Ask yourselves this question, people, if there really were implicit biases almost in the DNA going back probably millennia as Hillary Clinton would have us believe, why would Brutus give a damn about the Black folks being made slaves in his essay, given that Brutus was alive in the real time of slavery?
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 25, 2021 AT 6:59 PM
Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of Progressive “police reform” in America, which term is shorthand for emasculating the police to empower the criminals so they can feel better about themselves and all warm and squishy inside as a result, knowing that the police have to abase themselves before the criminals or risk getting fired or worse, incarcerated, I would like to take these words of wisdom from the immortal Dr. Martin L. King, who should be an inspiration to us all, that “(E)ducation must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” and “(T)he function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically,” and apply them to the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we had Councilman Jahmel K. Robinson of Albany, New York’s Fifth Ward saying that gun violence in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues” in order to enable us to sift and weigh the evidence to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically, something I am quite good at, actually, having been educated from the time I was young to employ critical thinking in all phases of my life, by going after that word “systemic” that the Progressives and Black folks like to use, so that quite literally, we are daily barraged by the word, as compared to when I was young, and the word was never heard, because there was no need for it.
For an example of how I understand the word “systemic,” let us go to a Reuters article entitled “Special Report: U.S. military’s new housing plagued by construction flaws” by M.B. Pell and Deborah Nelson on 23 December 2018, where we have as follows:
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Here, near the heart of America’s “Tornado Alley,” an Air Force contractor built 398 new homes less than a decade ago, bankrolled as part of the U.S. government’s vow of safe shelter for the men and women who serve.
Today the collection of cookie-cutter duplexes is showing declines more typical of aged and neglected housing.
Last spring, just six years after landlord Balfour Beatty Communities finished construction, the company was forced to start replacing every foot of water line in each house to fix systemic plumbing failures.
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Systemic plumbing failures, people.
Across the system.
All inclusive.
So, is Jahmel Robinson then saying that gun violence in Albany, New York is symptomatic of systemic plumbing failures, which is certainly a systemic issue, and I suppose a politician like Jahmel could make a case the two are connected – systemic plumbing failures drive the Black folks crazy so they go out and gun down each other in cold blood as a result.
It’s a stretch in my mind, but then, I am not a politician like Jahmel.
But wait, let us not be hasty and attribute gun violence by the lawless savages in Albany, New York to bad plumbing when we have Lawrence H. Summers, who worked in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama telling us how to use the word “systemic” in the Marketwatch story “Opinion: Setting the record straight on secular stagnation” by Lawrence H. Summers, published Sept 6, 2018, as follows:
It is also important to recall that we pursued the 2000 legislation not because we wanted to deregulate for its own sake, but rather to remove what the career lawyers at the Treasury, the Fed, and the Securities and Exchange Commission saw as systemic risk arising from legal uncertainty surrounding derivatives contracts.
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Now, again, people, there is how I understand the use of the word “systemic,” meaning infecting a whole system.
So is that what is causing gun violence in Albany?
Or is gun violence in Albany really just caused by violent savages armed with guns?
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Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of Progressive “police reform” in America, which term is shorthand for emasculating the police to empower the criminals so they can feel better about themselves and all warm and squishy inside as a result, knowing that the police have to abase themselves before the criminals or risk getting fired or worse, incarcerated, I would like to take these words of wisdom from the immortal Dr. Martin L. King, who should be an inspiration to us all, that “(E)ducation must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” and “(T)he function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically,” and apply them to the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we had Councilman Jahmel K. Robinson of Albany, New York’s Fifth Ward saying that gun violence in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues” in order to enable us to sift and weigh the evidence to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically, something I am quite good at, actually, having been educated from the time I was young to employ critical thinking in all phases of my life, by going after that word “systemic” that the Progressives and Black folks like to use, so that quite literally, we are daily barraged by the word, as compared to when I was young, and the word was never heard, because there was no need for it.
For an example of how I understand the word “systemic,” let us go to a Reuters article entitled “Special Report: U.S. military’s new housing plagued by construction flaws” by M.B. Pell and Deborah Nelson on 23 December 2018, where we have as follows:
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Here, near the heart of America’s “Tornado Alley,” an Air Force contractor built 398 new homes less than a decade ago, bankrolled as part of the U.S. government’s vow of safe shelter for the men and women who serve.
Today the collection of cookie-cutter duplexes is showing declines more typical of aged and neglected housing.
Last spring, just six years after landlord Balfour Beatty Communities finished construction, the company was forced to start replacing every foot of water line in each house to fix systemic plumbing failures.
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Systemic plumbing failures, people.
Across the system.
All inclusive.
So, is Jahmel Robinson then saying that gun violence in Albany, New York is symptomatic of systemic plumbing failures, which is certainly a systemic issue, and I suppose a politician like Jahmel could make a case the two are connected – systemic plumbing failures drive the Black folks crazy so they go out and gun down each other in cold blood as a result.
It’s a stretch in my mind, but then, I am not a politician like Jahmel.
But wait, let us not be hasty and attribute gun violence by the lawless savages in Albany, New York to bad plumbing when we have Lawrence H. Summers, who worked in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama telling us how to use the word “systemic” in the Marketwatch story “Opinion: Setting the record straight on secular stagnation” by Lawrence H. Summers, published Sept 6, 2018, as follows:
It is also important to recall that we pursued the 2000 legislation not because we wanted to deregulate for its own sake, but rather to remove what the career lawyers at the Treasury, the Fed, and the Securities and Exchange Commission saw as systemic risk arising from legal uncertainty surrounding derivatives contracts.
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Now, again, people, there is how I understand the use of the word “systemic,” meaning infecting a whole system.
So is that what is causing gun violence in Albany?
Or is gun violence in Albany really just caused by violent savages armed with guns?
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