Posted 05/01/2017 7:57 am by PatriotRising
Police power is experiencing a resurgence under President Donald Trump and his “law-and-order” drug warrior Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Under President Barack Obama, the 1033 program that transferred excess military equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies originally established under President Bill Clinton was rolled back. Obama’s Department of Just(us) began scrutinizing local police agencies accused of using excessive force.
But Sessions recently announced he was scaling back Justice Department reform agreements “including collaborative investigations and prosecutions, grant making, technical assistance and training, compliance reviews, existing or contemplated consent decrees, and task force participation in order to ensure that they fully and effectively promote the principles” of the new administration.
The AG will also restore programs that diverted surplus military equipment to local police departments at discounted prices.
But we need less police power, not more. A study published by JAMA Surgery shows that emergency department visits for people injured by LEOs (legally entitled to oppress) averaged about 51,000 per year from 2006 to 2012.
The study’s authors claim the rate of visits remained steady each year and totaled 355,677 over the period of the study. Of those 355,677 visits, 1,202 resulted in death either at the ED or later while in the hospital. More than 80 percent of those who sought treatment were male, and the average age was 32. Most lived in zip codes with household incomes below the national average, and 81 percent lived in urban areas. Injuries by LEOs were more common in the south and west and less common in the northeast and Midwest.
Most injuries that were treated were minor and resulted from being struck. But about 7 percent of the injuries from LEOs came from gunshots and stab wounds. Substance abuse and/or mental illness was common in those treated. About 20 percent of the people injured suffered from mental illness, lead study author Dr. Elinore Kaufman told Live Science.
The report did not cover deaths that occurred at the crime scene or those who were injured but did not seek treatment.
According to the website Killedbypolice.net, 343 people have died at the hands of police this year. The site recorded 1,155 deaths at the hands of police in 2016, 1,213 in 2015, 1,115 in 2014, and 777 in 2013.
In a letter sent to Sessions on Wednesday, The Rutherford Institute outlined the myriad ways Sessions’ move was a bad idea and challenged his assertion that police misconduct was the result of only a few bad actors.
From the letter:
Indeed, police abuse of authority and power is not limited to a few areas of the country, but occurs regularly throughout the United States. For example:
The Rutherford Institute letter went on to encourage Sessions and the Justice Department to align their priorities with the that of the Constitution and do what the federal government is tasked to do; “protect the civil rights of citizens against abuse of power by state and local law enforcement” and also “’help police departments get better by holding them fully accountable to the rule of law.
Where once police ranks were filled by people from the community who wanted to keep their communities peaceful, now they are largely filled with mercenaries coming out of the military ranks or clowns with a bully complex. The result has been an increasingly militarized and militant police presence backed by military tactics and a “us-versus-them” mentality and increasingly authoritarian police encounters.
A prime example was a recent Facebook posting by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. The officers were dressed as terrorists rather than peace officers, and Sheriff Peyton Grinnell vowed to have his SWAT teams “blow the front door off the hinges,” of suspected drug dealers
No-knock raids like he’s proposing in the fight of the faux “War on Drugs” have left scores of people maimed or wounded – including infants, children and the elderly in homes where no drugs were found and no laws were being broken – and at least 81 civilians and 13 LEOs dead.
Additionally, the police profession may produce more criminals than any other profession. Even though history has shown that many cases of police misconduct are kept out of sight or swept under the rug, the website policemisconduct.net documents a number of police crimes every day — from DUIs, to sexual assaults, to pornography, to sex trafficking, to murder, and more committed by police.
Of course, Trumpsters and those I call “law-and-order” conservatives in the mold of Sessions applaud police power.
Few subjects cost me as many “friends” and readers — among law-and-order conservatives, especially — as when I point out the abusive and tyrannical nature of police power and the LEO (legally entitled to oppress) class, as we do so in our Power of the State section. Doing so inevitably results in all manner of vitriol, scorn, contumely and calumny hurled my way — as well as unsubscribes and threats to unsubscribe.
But in endorsing or even abiding abusive police behavior and rights violations against those the “law and order” crowd deem undesirable, the “law and order” crowd is endorsing the surrender of its own rights. For if the state, its enforcers or the crowd can determine that one man has no rights, then no one has any rights.
Both law-and-order conservatives and progressive/statists suffer from cognitive dissonance regarding police. Conservatives claim to eschew and distrust big, tyrannical government, yet nothing symbolizes big government, tyranny and loss of liberty than the military and LEOs, whom conservatives hail as heroes. Progressive/statists love big government and trust government implicitly as being beatific, and then seem to think of the police as the Gestapo and the military as baby killers. Some of them are now calling for police forces to be disbanded (an idea that I whole-heartedly endorse).
Police power is government power and vice versa. It is the police who enforce the liberty-stealing laws passed by government criminals. That’s why I hold police in such contempt. Politicians sit in ivory towers removed from the people they oppress. Police look the people in the face as they oppress them.
Government by definition, by nature, by history and by practical existence is police power. Government would not and could not exist without police power. When governments lose their police power, they collapse. Conversely, greater police power is wielded the closer to collapse we come.
http://patriotrising.com/2017/05/01/resurgence-police-power/
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"Government by definition, by nature, by history and by practical existence is police power." 'To Protect and Serve...' THE STATE. Something to keep in mind when anyone participated in 'their' elections, trusts 'their' words, considers a cop 'the authority' instead of the thing it actually is - a government criminal.
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