Wow! “Who will have the courage to say: “If you take a knee, I’ll take your badge?” Who will put their own reputation on the line and stand in front of their officer or deputy when the news comes with a racially charged accusation?”
Thank you so much! This discussion was had over the last Super Bowl when people actually proposed a regional police force. My friend is a commander and told them a regional police force already existed - the Sheriffs Department.
My 15-year-old wants to be an officer. Hopefully, in seven years it will look different! Keep up the good work, sir!
In America, the US Constitution is the foundation on which both individual liberty and public safety rests. The Constitution was specifically designed to place the core police powers at the state and local level, under local control.
Legislation drafted in response to highly-publicized incidents (especially when it's created in haste), and to appease the loudest voices in the room, is always a bad idea. In this case, it will further demoralize police officers and create more victims.
How many actual police officers (who are not apologists for the profession) have been asked to the table to weigh in on this bill? Was FOP invited? Travis Yates? Police chiefs who eschew politics? In fact, the silence from those in leadership positions who purport to support cops, is quite deafening.
Federal oversight's been working real well thus far (for everything), so I foresee no way for this to ever go wrong.
It's no doubt that policing, in all its forms, needs oversight. But placing accountability into the hands of politicians is like giving alcoholics the keys to the bar. It's not much better in the hands of the public.
William Golding was a prophet about human behavior's decline into 'tribalism' when discipline is abandoned for opportunity. Look at me, being all pessimistic. Lol.
"Marxist principles to dismantle systems of oppression."
Wait, what??? So, consolidation of oppression is better! Who knew? Lol!
But, I suppose we should all feel as good as we can about that. At least then our oppressors would be easier to identify. Hey, don't laugh. It would eliminate 'intersectionality'. Marxists gonna Marxist...
Yeah, this whole bill seems like one big appeal to emotion, even down to its name. It's a barely veiled plea for votes. And that's all it is. Of course Joe would sign it.
The JUSTICE act provides a substantial amount of material for a future article. Broadly, this bill offers federal consequences for local actions, most of which are superfluous to existing state statutes. For example, in both bills we see the ‘ban’ on no-knock warrants. Warrants are judicial orders where the office writes the affidavit and justifies under oath to a judge the necessity of that condition, and then the judge makes that order. Is the law to stop ‘requesting’ these from judges? (even in the other bill there are the same exceptions) Also, who has airway blocking chokeholds in their response to resistance policy? Answer: hopefully no one.
Thanks, Ronald. Looking forward to your article on this.
I've also noticed the same issue with local politicians. For example, when drafting bills or municipal policies, they include things like "the officer has to de-escalate and use lesser forms of force before using fatal types of force." Ummm, this is already a standard (or I would hope) in most police departments.
Sadly, these policies and bills often seem to be written by people with little-to-no understanding of police work and who tend to be perennially critical of police.
Which is why I was surprised to see such a bill from Senator Tim Scott. He strikes me as genuine (as far as politicians go), smart, reasonable, and patriotic. So I'm not sure if this was an attempt to ease high emotions or if stemmed from a genuine lack of understanding.
Writing policies in haste or when the environment is so hostile is never a good idea.
Wow! “Who will have the courage to say: “If you take a knee, I’ll take your badge?” Who will put their own reputation on the line and stand in front of their officer or deputy when the news comes with a racially charged accusation?”
Thank you so much! This discussion was had over the last Super Bowl when people actually proposed a regional police force. My friend is a commander and told them a regional police force already existed - the Sheriffs Department.
My 15-year-old wants to be an officer. Hopefully, in seven years it will look different! Keep up the good work, sir!
In America, the US Constitution is the foundation on which both individual liberty and public safety rests. The Constitution was specifically designed to place the core police powers at the state and local level, under local control.
Yes!!
I would love Travis Yates in that discussion but people can’t contend with Courageous Leadership nor the visceral truth he offers!
Very informative, thank you!
Legislation drafted in response to highly-publicized incidents (especially when it's created in haste), and to appease the loudest voices in the room, is always a bad idea. In this case, it will further demoralize police officers and create more victims.
How many actual police officers (who are not apologists for the profession) have been asked to the table to weigh in on this bill? Was FOP invited? Travis Yates? Police chiefs who eschew politics? In fact, the silence from those in leadership positions who purport to support cops, is quite deafening.
Federal oversight's been working real well thus far (for everything), so I foresee no way for this to ever go wrong.
It's no doubt that policing, in all its forms, needs oversight. But placing accountability into the hands of politicians is like giving alcoholics the keys to the bar. It's not much better in the hands of the public.
William Golding was a prophet about human behavior's decline into 'tribalism' when discipline is abandoned for opportunity. Look at me, being all pessimistic. Lol.
"Marxist principles to dismantle systems of oppression."
Wait, what??? So, consolidation of oppression is better! Who knew? Lol!
But, I suppose we should all feel as good as we can about that. At least then our oppressors would be easier to identify. Hey, don't laugh. It would eliminate 'intersectionality'. Marxists gonna Marxist...
Yeah, this whole bill seems like one big appeal to emotion, even down to its name. It's a barely veiled plea for votes. And that's all it is. Of course Joe would sign it.
Spot on!
What are your thoughts on Senator Tim Scott's JUSTICE Act?
The JUSTICE act provides a substantial amount of material for a future article. Broadly, this bill offers federal consequences for local actions, most of which are superfluous to existing state statutes. For example, in both bills we see the ‘ban’ on no-knock warrants. Warrants are judicial orders where the office writes the affidavit and justifies under oath to a judge the necessity of that condition, and then the judge makes that order. Is the law to stop ‘requesting’ these from judges? (even in the other bill there are the same exceptions) Also, who has airway blocking chokeholds in their response to resistance policy? Answer: hopefully no one.
Thanks, Ronald. Looking forward to your article on this.
I've also noticed the same issue with local politicians. For example, when drafting bills or municipal policies, they include things like "the officer has to de-escalate and use lesser forms of force before using fatal types of force." Ummm, this is already a standard (or I would hope) in most police departments.
Sadly, these policies and bills often seem to be written by people with little-to-no understanding of police work and who tend to be perennially critical of police.
Which is why I was surprised to see such a bill from Senator Tim Scott. He strikes me as genuine (as far as politicians go), smart, reasonable, and patriotic. So I'm not sure if this was an attempt to ease high emotions or if stemmed from a genuine lack of understanding.
Writing policies in haste or when the environment is so hostile is never a good idea.