Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Heartbreaking. More and more, I think the problem is that too many of them take the motto "to protect and serve" to mean protecting and serving themselves. Which is why it has become a joke. One thing I know: the syndrome ain't gonna get better by having more guns everywhere.
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/13/2019 - 5:00pm
Heck, I'm scared of them! I'm scared of them even when they are trying to help, my heart beats a little faster, I don't trust them.
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/13/2019 - 5:03pm
"Don't Tase Me, Bro" already seems quaint.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/13/2019 - 5:04pm
This murder by police happened down the road from the murder committed by Amber Guyger.
[Stop this - I post a news piece, and you use it to launch back into what you wrote last week. It's effing boring and tedious and degrades the site. Next time I just delete, no questions asked. Rest of your botherome litany left intact below. - PP]
There was surprise when Guyger was convicted. This cop may go free. The Dallas police may be telling the truth about the murder of Joshua Brown, but there should be an independent review. If the Dallas assistant chief of police had to begin with reasons that his officers should not be considered suspects when a witness was murdered, his police department's credibility is trash.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 10/13/2019 - 8:00pm
Do what you feel you need to do.
I said that the Forth Worth cop might get away with murder. It now turns out that he didn't identify himself before murdering Atatiana Jefferson. He might actually be convicted.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/commentary/2019/10/13/the-outrageous-death-of-atatiana-jefferson-what-was-fort-worth-cop-possibly-thinking-when-he-shot/
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 7:54am
You didn't say any such thing - you mentioned it being down the street, then jumped back to the Guyger trial and the Joshua Brown killing, thoroughly discussed in prior weeks.
This current comment was on-topic.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 9:08am
From March 13, good piece rounding up who has done work on the problem with good links:
Police officers convicted for fatal shootings are the exception, not the rule
Since 2005, research shows that only 35 officers have been convicted of a crime related to an on-duty fatal shooting.
By Janell Ross @ NBC.com
continues with lots more
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 1:11am
But do the police themselves ever see this as a blackmark, huge negative PR that they should counter in more and more effective ways? Instead it's usually press conferences ass deadpan as Joe Friday from the 60's, "Just doing our job, ma'am". The deflect-and-denigrate the right including the police used with #TakeAKnee was disgusting, but largely worked - "America's great as it is, protest demeans the troops, let's play ball." With the police, grantees of si much excess Iraq War eqpt, default revered extensions of the military. Now the clubs have extended the no-free-protest stance to Make China Great Again. Funny when people jumped to Nike's defense to assume Avenatti was guilty (wouldn't be a DoJ incentive to shut him up, would there?) - used to be worry about sweatshops in Vietnam, now it's championing American industry - "Just Fuck It", the new jaded slogan for our times. Pick your side, and push it, no nuance need apply.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 1:26am
Just ran across this you posted looking for something else
"POLICE LIVES MATTER" RUN FROM KOSOVO
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 2:34am
Yeah, all r bases r belong to Moscow. You'd think someone wld care.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 4:14am
The rapid response from the Forth Worth PD
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/us/fort-worth-shooting-what-we-know/index.html?no-st=1571066721
Edit to add:
The officer involved in the homicide resigned
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article236197533.html
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 2:15pm
- Who the hell calls the cops at 2AM saying "the neighbor's door is open"...?
- Who got the call at the PD and did they ask questions, like, did you see any intruder or hear anything? Did you knock on the door and ask if they are OK? Suggest you do so and call us back. PD dispatch to neighbor- "We do not dispatch for doors ajar at 2 AM".
- What did the incurious dispatcher tell the cops? Since nobody calls for just an open door, I suspect the telephone operator called it a "another Code 8", which could be a 'crime in progress, 'suspicion of break and entry'
- Stupid gun wielding reckless cop goes snooping around looking for "the criminal", without knocking on the door or calling out, infiltrates back yard.
and you know the rest. Failure at every level, ending with a man unqualified to carry a weapon or be a cop.
by NCD on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 6:33pm
thank you. I think that all of what you said would be the obvious conclusion to most, except maybe some who come bring a preconceived narrative about this kind of tragic event. Barney Fife syndrome all around, including the fear factor. Neighbor afraid to do the sensible thing, cop afraid too; a big part of this, though, is reading about gun victims everyday, don't you think?
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 9:18pm
The neighbor is not at fault.
The officer did not identify himself as a police officer. He fired within seconds of shouting "Put up your hands. Show me your hands"
The officer is now arrested and charged with murder
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/fort-worth-police-officer-charged-murder.html
The involved officer and the Fort Worth police department are at fault. If you think that your neighbor is being robbed, you do not walk across the street to knock on her door.
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:40pm
Yes, there are times/places checking on your neighbor could be risky.
Non-paywalped version of the murder charges -at least proper charging happened here, which certainly does send a strong signal:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5da50dd7e4b01c76560b86c7
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:44am
A door ajar does not mean your neighbors are being robbed.
by NCD on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 1:40am
No, but it might be quite unusual, and we don't know how dangerous the neighborhood is. It wasn't a totally unreasonable option, tho now the guy totally regrets calling of course.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 3:07am
The most rational to do thing now is to get to know your neighbors and exchange numbers. If something strange is observed, call your neighbor to verify their safety.Calling the police is the more risky option.
As Michael Harriott somewhat facetiously notes
https://www.theroot.com/if-you-love-me-do-not-call-the-police-1839039292
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 7:48am
Agreed. Will the police realize they have more than a tiny problem, that they've largely blown it, whatever the bigger problem they think has taken priority, that I suppose they assume they've been handling well?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 8:08am
From Eugene Robinson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-can-a-black-person-do-to-keep-from-getting-killed-by-police-in-this-country/2019/10/14/28ab0ea8-eeb9-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 11:02pm
Walking 2 guys in the middle of the road while black is what attracted the police - responding to his shoplifting alert - to Michael Brown. I don't see what is gained by lumping in hooligan behaviour with cases of pure victim innocence in their homes and indefensible police behaviour. Don't we want to keep the light focused on these police actions, not muddy the waters?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:36am
I predicted that you would focus on Michael Brown. The waters are not muddied. The important message is that the police are not trusted and that they have earned that status. The episode exposed the Ferguson police department used black citizens as a piggy bank. The Brown homicide exposed that the department was trash.
The fact that Michael Brown is used as shorthand for police abuse and that the Dallas police have to say that their officers are not responsible for the murder of a witness speaks volumes. The police are seen as an occupying force. The mud is created by police behavior.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 8:06am
A dumbfuck that steals ciggies and hits a shopowner and runs down the middle of the street is not the poster child you're looking for. He's the type I want police to apprehend, just not kill or abuse.
The NAACP chose Rosa Parks over another girl because she didn't have any moral issues (out of wedlock pregnancy). If only the movements of today we're that careful and strategic, rather than "anything goes".
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 1:22pm
No one trusts police to do independent investigations. Police are out of control.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/us/anthony-hill-robert-olsen-trial-not-guilty/index.html
https://www.theroot.com/chicago-cop-who-quit-force-after-shooting-and-killing-r-1839043333
People are fed up
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/us/black-drivers-traffic-stops.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
The dislike for police creates a situation where the actions of Michael Brown really don't matter. The police are hated. Anything goes for the police, so anything goes for the community. Playing nice did not save lives. Police abuse continued. It is on police departments to change the dynamic.
As rapped by NWA, "Fuck Tha Police"
https://genius.com/Nwa-fuck-tha-police-lyrics
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 2:18pm
Double down on that Michael Brown fella.
I hear Jeffrey Epstein was a nice guy and Harvey Weinstein was a helluva producer.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 6:04pm
The BLM movement is the worse planned worst strategy movement I've seen in my lifetime. They really should look at Act Up to come up with a better strategy going forward. Act up was just so smart using their small numbers for the most effect. Every group should study how they did it.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 7:47pm
No one trusts police to do independent investigations.
Not a new thing. The movie Serpico came out in 1973, made Al Pacino a star. As I recall the phenomenon, us kids didn't have to apologize to the parents for calling them pigs anymore. Power corrupts, and police got it. I haven't seen protest do much to solve the problem. Investigative journalism can, though. And whistle blowers. Which means fair treatment of stories rather than sensationalizing them. The more you push them all as one with angry rhetoric, the more they are going to retreat into a tribal band of brothers. It's got to be broken from inside the tribe.The more protestors push "us vs. them" tribal memes, the worse they will get. Because when that happens, someone good who goes into policing, they'd rather stand by their nasty "brother" as the only thing keeping anarchy at bay.
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 8:59pm