[Dick Bachert]

Along with the government schools, this is yet ANOTHER "problem" we'd better solve.

[circlecity]

"to identify and do what you can to get the abusive power-trippers out of your departments. And it is incumbent on the managers of those departments to attempt to prevent those individuals from simply joining other departments by giving inquiring agencies honest evaluations of those dismissed officers."

Or maybe just assign these bad eggs to work in the property room or some other administrative position.

[AlaskaErik]

Obama/Holder/Sharpton have set race relations back 60 years and have tacitly approved hostility towards police. They have sowed the wind and now the police are reaping the whirlwind.

[Safetgiver]

As far as I have been exposed to LE, as well as being one in the past, we (the community and the individual cops) need to return to the idea that we hire Peace Officers, not military orientated AA hires.

[Liz]

I seriously love this guy---tough-talking Wisconsin Sheriff Dave Clarke. Clarke is considered a rock star in conservative circles. Clarke is dynamic VP material.

Milwaukee’s tough-talking black sheriff, David Clarke, argued this week that white Americans have “made great strides” in healing race relations, and that sooner or later they’re going to grow tired of having their noses “rubbed in the past sins of sins of slavery." (Fox News via The Daily Surge)...

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke didn’t pull any punches in his assessment of the Rev. Al Sharpton — who vowed to keep fighting for justice for slain Ferguson teen Michael Brown, despite the feds’ decision to drop a civil rights investigation — and characterized him on national television as less than intelligent and unworthy of respect.

“The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, got it right,” Sheriff Clarke said, during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.” “Officer [Darren] Wilson has been exonerated. The thing I want to know is how does he get his reputation back?”

Sheriff Clarke then directed anger at Mr. Sharpton, who spoke sharply in the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision not to prosecute Mr. Wilson, a former police officer, on civil rights charges.

CLARKE “I don’t expect anything intelligent to come out of the mouth of Al Sharpton,” Sheriff Clarke said, Mediaite reported. “We know he is a charlatan. Al Sharpton ought to go back into the gutter he came from. The police officer is owed a lot from him, Eric Holder and the president of the United States.”

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

After a wave of police assassinations in the 1970s, the feds strongly encouraged police in the US to no longer use “Old West” style policing, in which guns remained holstered, and would only be brandished if the intent was to shoot to kill.

Instead, they were told to adopt “SWAT” tactics, which quickly turned into paramilitary tactics, assumed everyone was out to kill police, and that they should “brandish and menace” their guns frequently, “to establish control and dominance in situations.”

This resulted in a marked increase in police deaths, as brandishing a gun can not only make a normal situation bad, but makes it far easier to lose your gun. Far more police deaths were from their own gun, apart from suicide, in the hands of someone else.

And practically speaking, guns only have three modes: holstered, brandished, or firing, which is wholly inadequate for the vast majority of police encounters; which is why many police now adore Tasers, as they give them many more options that guns don’t.

Its long term result was just as bad, based on the RICO Act which was passed *prior* to the assassinations, which poured federal money from confiscated (”arrested”) property and money into local police coffers, on *condition* that they used the money to buy military surplus equipment and weapons.

Over time, this result in ridiculous and utterly unnecessary paramilitarization of local police.

In any event, this is why we need to keep a close watch of these current police assassinations, because the same scoundrels who turned our police into paramilitaries will undoubtedly start beating the drum for even more weaponizing and aggression on the part of police.

Something that neither the police, or our nation, need.