rick1 said...
Tirna there already is an ethnic cleansing occurring with the black population. It's called abortion.
Whites have abortions too. Many may go unrecorded, because they're more likely to be carried out privately rather than at some clinic. It's like that old military quote that say, "Only the enlisted men contracts an STD, while the brass is diagnosed with a urinary tract infection.
jesse, you and others mock the intent of gun free zones. No one ever implied that just because area is declared gun free that guns could not or would not still come into the area. However, the penalty for brining guns into gun free zones is higher.
The downside and actual damage of the sequester is beginning to show its damage. Even within the military, as civilian workers on military bases work days are being shortened and actual furloughs begin to take shape.
blacks make up just 13.6 percent of the population in this country
The black population has always been under-counted for in America,and crime rates have always been exaggerated. On the issue of population count, that's really not a bad thing. Otherwise, America would be on a quest to have another ethnic cleansing.
prairie_dog said...
If ordinary people didn't harbor criminals in their homes and communities, we'd have a lot less crime
Let's rephrase that:
If lw enforcement didn't harbor criminals inside their rank and file, and operated more like peace officers rather than bullies and an invading occupying military on a mission to distablize communities, we' have less crime on the streets and even lesser citizens with broken bones, broken faces and broken lives.
btw-the crime of vagrancy and being arrested for it never went away. The term just got a little bit more high/tech and sophisticated. As these days, an individual can basically be arrested for most anything at the arresting cops discretion.
The way police have come to operate in these times, a citizen is more likely to encounter a bad cop than a criminal looking to harm them.
One can just about always determine from the types of police training videos what type of individuals are liely to be hired (actual peace officers or aggressive bullies), put in uniform, pass out a gun and badge, then allowed loose over the average citizen.
It's not necessarily the number of guns or gun ownership in a neighborhood that gives the appearance of being a safe community, but that the individuals usuallly have ties to the courts and authority who sometimes help to downplay criminal activity in those safe communities {underage drinking, domestic violance etc). Especially, crimes committed by friends and neighbors.
On the other hand, in some poor, and especially minority poor, neighborhoods, just the simple task of leaving your house or apartment to visit a next door neighbor can result in a stop, frisk and even a possible arrest based on the discretion of the officer alone. Bad and even dirty policing have contributed greatly to the escalation of crime and deterioration in many poor neighborhoods.
Maybe it's past due time to bring in the feds to investigate. I'm not sure an honest investigation can be carried out on a local level. As there might be direct or indirect involvement on their part.
Military home on leave, innocently walking after the dark in the neighborhood he was born, on the very street he grew up. If the skin is brown or black it doesn't matter Mr. Cook. And they'll swear down they were just following orders, which is the most lame of excuses. Who's orders no one can be sure.
They don't just follow any orders. After all, if they were told to go stand in the middle of the road and wait for an 18 wheeler to come barreling down at 70mph, they'd say You're crazy! But tap into that dark place that lurks just beneath the surface for some, where principles and scruples no longer exist, and you can bring out the monster in some people.
Then you have a system and society that enables. That excuse such behavior. That justify, that looks away. That attacks the victim, or the citizen that attempts to report. A society that's complicit. Why? Because these are people who have sworned to uphold the law. To police their own. To serve and protect. People we're told we can trust. We can go to when we feel the threat of danger. And we believe them.
quotes by Eli Wiesel/Holocaust survivor:
"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel
HUD has promoted ugly, dangerous public housing and burdensome restrictions on rental property
My guess is Ms. Martha Akin of Hixson has never seen military base family housing, which public housing was designed after? Neither does HUD promote dangerous living conditions in public housing. Those problems came to exist when it was decided to break up the family unit, with father intact, by running the fathers off and only allowing single women with children. Then made more dangerous when it was decided to kick all the poor single mothers with children out and do away with public housing altogether by way of
gentrification.
Crime Rate
rick1 said... Tirna there already is an ethnic cleansing occurring with the black population. It's called abortion.
Whites have abortions too. Many may go unrecorded, because they're more likely to be carried out privately rather than at some clinic. It's like that old military quote that say, "Only the enlisted men contracts an STD, while the brass is diagnosed with a urinary tract infection.
Gun-free zones don't work: Shootings are more likely where weapons are banned
jesse, you and others mock the intent of gun free zones. No one ever implied that just because area is declared gun free that guns could not or would not still come into the area. However, the penalty for brining guns into gun free zones is higher.
GOP budget not in line with needs of nation
The downside and actual damage of the sequester is beginning to show its damage. Even within the military, as civilian workers on military bases work days are being shortened and actual furloughs begin to take shape.
Crime Rate
blacks make up just 13.6 percent of the population in this country
The black population has always been under-counted for in America,and crime rates have always been exaggerated. On the issue of population count, that's really not a bad thing. Otherwise, America would be on a quest to have another ethnic cleansing.
Crime Rate
prairie_dog said... If ordinary people didn't harbor criminals in their homes and communities, we'd have a lot less crime
Let's rephrase that:
If lw enforcement didn't harbor criminals inside their rank and file, and operated more like peace officers rather than bullies and an invading occupying military on a mission to distablize communities, we' have less crime on the streets and even lesser citizens with broken bones, broken faces and broken lives.
btw-the crime of vagrancy and being arrested for it never went away. The term just got a little bit more high/tech and sophisticated. As these days, an individual can basically be arrested for most anything at the arresting cops discretion.
The way police have come to operate in these times, a citizen is more likely to encounter a bad cop than a criminal looking to harm them.
One can just about always determine from the types of police training videos what type of individuals are liely to be hired (actual peace officers or aggressive bullies), put in uniform, pass out a gun and badge, then allowed loose over the average citizen.
Gun-free zones don't work: Shootings are more likely where weapons are banned
It's not necessarily the number of guns or gun ownership in a neighborhood that gives the appearance of being a safe community, but that the individuals usuallly have ties to the courts and authority who sometimes help to downplay criminal activity in those safe communities {underage drinking, domestic violance etc). Especially, crimes committed by friends and neighbors.
On the other hand, in some poor, and especially minority poor, neighborhoods, just the simple task of leaving your house or apartment to visit a next door neighbor can result in a stop, frisk and even a possible arrest based on the discretion of the officer alone. Bad and even dirty policing have contributed greatly to the escalation of crime and deterioration in many poor neighborhoods.
Crime Rate
Maybe it's past due time to bring in the feds to investigate. I'm not sure an honest investigation can be carried out on a local level. As there might be direct or indirect involvement on their part.
David Cook: Driving while American
Military home on leave, innocently walking after the dark in the neighborhood he was born, on the very street he grew up. If the skin is brown or black it doesn't matter Mr. Cook. And they'll swear down they were just following orders, which is the most lame of excuses. Who's orders no one can be sure.
They don't just follow any orders. After all, if they were told to go stand in the middle of the road and wait for an 18 wheeler to come barreling down at 70mph, they'd say You're crazy! But tap into that dark place that lurks just beneath the surface for some, where principles and scruples no longer exist, and you can bring out the monster in some people.
Then you have a system and society that enables. That excuse such behavior. That justify, that looks away. That attacks the victim, or the citizen that attempts to report. A society that's complicit. Why? Because these are people who have sworned to uphold the law. To police their own. To serve and protect. People we're told we can trust. We can go to when we feel the threat of danger. And we believe them.
quotes by Eli Wiesel/Holocaust survivor:
"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ― Elie Wiesel
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
'Trooper texting dragnet cause for concern' and more letters to the editors
HUD has promoted ugly, dangerous public housing and burdensome restrictions on rental property
My guess is Ms. Martha Akin of Hixson has never seen military base family housing, which public housing was designed after? Neither does HUD promote dangerous living conditions in public housing. Those problems came to exist when it was decided to break up the family unit, with father intact, by running the fathers off and only allowing single women with children. Then made more dangerous when it was decided to kick all the poor single mothers with children out and do away with public housing altogether by way of gentrification.
Gun-free zones don't work: Shootings are more likely where weapons are banned
But you've never objected, g, regardless