re: Carnage On Cops A Product of Obama Presidency

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Obama handled the situations intelligently and diplomatically.

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WTF?!

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I've seen rodney king, virtually no penalty... I've seen the b.a r.t. shooting, again almost no penalty. I've seen remnants of cops shooting up bachelor parties over a fender bender. 137 rounds in a car over a backfire... 12 year old taken out in under 5 seconds. They happen under all presidents, outside of the group committing said acts, the one constant... lack of accountability and punishment.

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I'm gonna guess..ummm...about 75% bullshite. Rodney King?? seriously?

Police are safer under Obama than they've been in decades (from 2016)

From what I've read, violence against cops has remained relatively flat over the last 10-20 years. Since 1970 it has actually been cut in half, though most of that is attributed to the increased use of body armor by police.

There was a sharp increase in the first half of 2016, but I think that leveled out the last half of the year.

All that to say, there hasn't been this massive carnage on cops under Obama's tenure, as your post claims.

I have no less than 5 fraternity brothers that are cops still I think. 1 may have retired to do other things.

Anyway, the active ones don't talk about increase violence toward cops. They talk about the actual increase in the number of ambushes. They don't mind a fire fight per se. It's the ambushes that concern them.

So while the number of cops killed in the line of duty may be flat the circumstances around some of those deaths is their concern.

They also talk about how little respect they are shown in every day situations and 4 of the 5 are salt of the earth type of people. One was a hot head but has nothing in his file and has never fired his service weapon to my knowledge.

I don't know why anyone would want to be a cop these days.

The first responder is rigrb and I'm
Moderate.

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The only "lack of data" is the kind that looks bad for his side, really bad. And by that I mean the fact that blacks are profiled more because they commit more crimes and, yes, are engaged more by police because they are non-compliant and more prone to violence AGAINST LEOs during confrontations.

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All of that stems from the war on drugs. The black community has always been over policed due the the war on drugs. That failed policy created situations of unneeded interactions between blacks and cops.

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They also talk about how little respect they are shown in every day situations

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This is a huge problem in policing these days, and the lack of respect cuts both ways in some communities. It's hard to break the cycle when both feel it's the other side being disrespectful.

As someone else said many posts ago, the prevalence of smartphones with video cameras on them hasn't really helped that tension.

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All of that stems from the war on drugs. The black community has always been over policed due the the war on drugs. That failed policy created situations of unneeded interactions between blacks and cops.

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Wrong . . .

And in all of those cases they received far harsher punishment than whites that committed the same crimes.