MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide, saying it was necessary to ensure these pacts do not work against the Trump administration’s goals of promoting officer.....morale while fighting violent crime.
Comments
news to Trump:
Morale never better at the new Camden, NJ's PD and in the affected community too, with this *new* strategy: Minimize harm, and try to save lives.
Cops can actually enjoy being seen as heroes by those they work for, go figure! Who knew?
But of course, you'd have to accept that the NYT is not "fake news" in order to know that.
On that, here's a good tweet:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/03/2017 - 10:56pm
Why am I convinced Trump, Pence and Sessions #2 favorite dream would be sole authority over a national police force with all the legal and judicial oversight of the Gestapo? From the link, the Camden cops seem too soft to make the Trump team.
#1 dream being putting all news organizations out of business, except for Fox, there for the one and only reason, to broadcast Spicer news conferences.
by NCD on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 12:07am
Yes, not to jumpstart a previous thread, this is the kind of response I eas hoping to see in last year's debate/dialogue/evolution on police overreach, race (and poverty). At least someone got the message. Hope many more.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 12:30am
Trump and Sessions believe in order more than they believe in justice. They are comfortable with police abuse as long as it controls the "rabble". Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's speech criticizing the Vietnam War at Riverside Church in NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/opinion/when-martin-luther-king-came-...
King pointed out that he could not criticize the riots occurring in cities because of societal and police abuse without first criticizing the violence perpetrated by the military. King is dead and beloved now. During his life, King was a hated radical Negro Communist. Sessions tried to jail people who followed King's lead on civil rights. His action caused Coretta Scott King to writing a letter objecting to Session's nomination as a federal judge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/read-the-let...
Sessions wanted order and did not care that much about civil rights. Sessions has not changed. We have come full circle. Trump wants to gear up the military for multiple wars.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 8:25am
Here is how black people learn to hate police. Two NYPD officers confront two black teens for standing around. One officer touches one teen and threatens to use a Taser. Just seeing the video sends chills down the spines on many black people. The police put our children at risk.
http://gothamist.com/2017/04/01/you_wanna_ride_the_lightning_taser-.php
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 10:08am
Where is the legal code or precedent that sanctions the abrogation of civil rights to soothe the "morale" of law enforcement officers?
And what rights violations (injury, sexual assault,loss of life...rape?) would Sessions DOJ allow for officer morale boosting?
by NCD on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 12:05pm
Here is another example of police abuse that Sessions wants to ignore. North Miami police shot an unarmed behavioral therapist trying to protect a patient from being shot. The black behavioral therapist was prone on the ground with his hand in the air. Tape shows that the police knew the therapist was unarmed. He was still shot. No charges have been filed against the police officers. The police union supports the officers.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/charles-kinsey-was-shot-after-a-north-...
Sadly, stories like these routinely show up in emails from news sites. You have to expend virtually no energy to hear about police abuse. Sessions doesn't care. Like most Republicans, he cares more about order and lack of disruption by protest than he cares about law or justice.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 04/05/2017 - 8:02am