[ April 19, 2024 ]
This is what the Americans will suffer if they vote Democrat in November. The choice is clear.
‘The protests were whiter than the police department’
Peter Moskos – sociologist and former Baltimore cop – talks to spiked about race, policing and mass incarceration.
By: Tom Slater, Spike, July 30, 2020:
Story continues below advertisement‘If the goal is to save black lives, it’s not working. If the goal is to get rid of police, it’s working’, says Peter Moskos, professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and a former Baltimore cop.
In the wake of the brutal police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protests have erupted nationwide, and politicians have responded by cutting and disempowering police.
Meanwhile, crime has spiralled in precisely the communities the Black Lives Matter movement hopes to defend. ‘We’re dismantling the NYPD now, and violence has gone up 200 per cent’, he says.
In the increasingly polarised debate around policing in America, Moskos offers a unique perspective. He calls himself a pro-cop liberal – ‘it’s a very small Venn diagram’, he jokes.
A Harvard-trained sociologist, Moskos spent 14 months working as a policeman in the ghettos of Baltimore’s Eastern District. He published a book about it in 2008, Cop in the Hood.
He has chronicled countless police killings, but that didn’t make the video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes any less disturbing for him.
‘It’s a different league’, Moskos says. ‘I have seen a lot of these and usually I’m like, well, is there a way I can see it from the cop’s perspective? But this one was just… I don’t get it. And no one really gets it… He killed the guy.’
The universal condemnation of that sadistic killing and the swift action taken against Chauvin were a rare example, he goes on, of the system actually working.
‘Everyone has condemned the killing, including police unions. I’ve never seen that before’, he says. ‘The guy was charged and arrested. That is our system of justice.’
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52 Comments
3 years ago
“brutal police killing”? George died from drugs and covid. Stop allowing democrat lies to be repeated on your site Pamela.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Agree. Left/Liberal pro-jihadis/anti-nationals politicians/media are corrupt paid shills for islam . paid by saudi/qatar/OIC
Merkel govt funded Pro-jihadi Left/Liberals run propaganda to create more sex slaves out of little children like in UK http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/merkel-pro-jihadi-propaganda/
Do these scumbags have any conscience ?
3 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Merkel hails from E Germany and, naturally, has a leftist agenda!! She was a commie when E Germany existed. When the WALL came down she couldn’t change her spots (for lack of a better word)….
3 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
sorass wants more muzzies in europe meanwhile little girls and little boys getting raped even the family pet. God wonders what so special about muzzies….and the special preferential treatment they get. Acting like they (muzzies) more intelligent and acting pricey that normal man.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Where was police reform when demo☭crats held the White House, the House, and the Senate in 2009?
2015 a record year for back people killed by police – no uprising…why?
Because that would expose Obamao’s/Democrats failures(2015 was 7 years AFTER Obamao was elected)
so they waited until a Republican was President……cowards every one of them.
3 years ago
If you ever had to fight one of those guys, it might be easier to understand why it wasn’t a good idea to let him get back up 🙂
3 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Everybody especially the rioters have missed the point. If you can talk you can breathe, it is a biological fact that speaking requires the passage of air. If he had shut up he would have got have got the hold released.
This not to excuse the cop at all who behaved like a thug
3 years ago
Trump bans Chinese Tik Tok in US
Aug 1, 2020
https://www.debka.com/mivzak/trump-bans-chinese-tik-tok-in-us/
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he would sign an executive order banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app Tik Tok in the US. Security officials have been concerned that the app would be used to collect personal data from American citizens. Tik Tok denies it is controlled by or shares data with the Beijing government. The fast-growing app has up to 80 million active monthly users in America- most under 20 – and the ban would be a major blow for its owners ByteDanace.
3 years ago
I don’t know that any cop killed Floyd judging by either of the two autopsy reports. But I guess that qualifying statement is designed to keep your job.
3 years ago
New York Fed Predicts GDP to Surge 16.8 Percent in Third Quarter
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-york-fed-nowcast-predicts-gdp-to-surge-16-8-percent-in-third-quarter_3445767.html
Near-real-time economic models at the Federal Reserve banks in New York and Atlanta predict America’s economy will experience surging, double-digit growth in the third quarter of this year, following a record-shattering collapse of minus 32.9 percent in the second quarter, when business activity ground to a halt due to the pandemic
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
So much for that phony ‘catastrophic collapse’ of 32.9%. Did people forget that free-enterprise is self-equalizing?
3 years ago
The basic premises in this article are bogus. The writer offers conferred credibility on the anarchistic rioters in the streets, where it does not apply, by calling them ‘Protesters’. This is a common deception used by the left to describe the BLM/Antifa upheaval in the streets. These people are not interested in doing anything constructive for the Black communities, that they say they represent. This is nothing more than an organized attempted Marxist Putsch! Put it down!
3 years ago
This is only a partial story with no connection to the headline…
3 years ago
i agree completely, would only add that the ONLY solution to the problem is the complete annihilation and purge of all marxists and all dupe supporters. They will soon turn all of western civilization into a complete marxist dystopia otherwise: replete with gulags, impoverishment , cultural-erasure, atheism, police-state, mass -murder. Yes, they will enslave or kill us, or we will first kill them. And yes we have already experienced the firt wave of this marxist affront, including the use of china-virus fraudulence to impose control physically and economically and condition to the more that is to come.
3 years ago
What is a couple thousand more dead Progressives in the scheme of things?
3 years ago
Fine by me… I’m retiring in a few months and moving to Wyoming… My recollection is that they understand what the 2nd amendment is all about.
3 years ago
Reply to
AuldGuy
For now
But they have allowed to be adopted a SJW criteria for ALL public school teachers so I have to ask how long will that last?
3 years ago
The party of the KKK and Jim Crow figured out a new way to kill blacks: Defund the police!!!!!!
3 years ago
I fail to see where there is any debate about funding police!
The idea of no police is insane. I’d like to see some discussion on
why black on black crime and illegals are the bigger problems and why people can’t
obey laws, be civilized and stop resisting arrest. You honestly can’t
blame police for the actions of others … yet they are….
3 years ago
Vote against democrat tyranny. Trump/Pence 2020!
3 years ago
Anyone with a functioning brain cell could tell them what would happen when you cut back on LEO enforcement!!!!
3 years ago
The author, Tom Slater, needs to choose his words much more carefully. Especially since his career seems to be word craft. When I read that Floyd was “brutally killed”, I know at that moment that the author is either willfully misinformed, OR willfully malicious in his choice of words. Officers played NO part in floyd’s death. The coroner’s report supports this, yet leftist word crafters ignore this FACT, so they can sell an article. Until leftist hate is supported by evidence, It is NOTHING. Shame on Tom, shame on the editor buying Tom’s article. All you have done is fuel the hate that will lead to the leftist shooting civil war. Great job. 😉
3 years ago
Marxist leaning leaders in cities like NY, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis etc are seeking to replace the police with Social Justice enforcement officers who will implement Marxist ideals on people by force.
3 years ago
Reply to
Democrat=BORG
Can you imagine the kangaroo courts they will hold for “trials”?
The traditional rule of law and punishment will be undone. Remember how white males were automatically guilty of rape etc. on a college/university campus under Obama by a university/campus type court? They will do something similiar for crime.
3 years ago
Reply to
Democrat=BORG
The demo☭crats have no intention of abolishing the police. The demo☭crats and liberals want full control over the police, like they have control over the media, courts and academia. Once that happens the demo☭crats will use the police to enforce the laws it likes, and to terrorize people with different opinions. The laws they don’t like will be ignored or discarded.
3 years ago
Reply to
Democrat=BORG
Social workers armed with cans of silly string to shoot back at bank robbers.
3 years ago
Perhaps more paint will hide all the spilt blood for ‘Black Lives’ ?!! ….. from Black lives
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
NYC needs to kill Deblasio…………before Deblasio kills NYC. Our cops are our 1st level responders: credit them where you can!
3 years ago
“Meanwhile, crime has spiralled in precisely the communities the Black Lives Matter movement hopes to defend.”
If Tom Slater thinks BLM is even remotely interested in defending anyone at all, rather than maximising the mayhem, I can sell him any of three pyramids in Egypt, a lovely cathedral in Salisbury, or a pretty nice castle in Windsor. Get in touch, Tom.
3 years ago
Time for a full out “Blue Flu” these idiots need to appreciate the work these people do to keep them safe…..
3 years ago
de Blasio is obviously losing his mind, why is he not being recalled? He is not a fit person to be ruling over a major city
or even a small one for that matter. Who in his right mind would disband the police who does he think will keep law and order?
3 years ago
de Blasio is obviously losing his mind, why is he not being recalled? He is not a fit person to be ruling over a major city
or even a small one for that matter. Who in his right mind would disband the police who does he think will keep law and order?
3 years ago
And just what did he think was going to happen when he did such a ludicrous thing to our men and women in blue? Not too swift is he? Now just wait for all the murder and mayhem to get a million times worse. Guess deBlasio and Lighthead are in a contest for the crappyest city in the US. Both Democrats and we know how they can destroy things. Now they along with other big cities in the country want financial support from the taxpayers after they wouldn’t lift a finger to stop the destruction of their cities and protect their people. Shameful!
3 years ago
And just what did he think was going to happen when he did such a ludicrous thing to our men and women in blue? Not too swift is he? Now just wait for all the murder and mayhem to get a million times worse. Guess deBlasio and Lighthead are in a contest for the crappyest city in the US. Both Democrats and we know how they can destroy things. Now they along with other big cities in the country want financial support from the taxpayers after they wouldn’t lift a finger to stop the destruction of their cities and protect their people. Shameful!
3 years ago
If any of this is true, it is a kind of very sick good news. Democrats are kill their own useless, America hating kind. Let ’em have at it.
3 years ago
Bill Barr said it in his Senate testimony… blacks killing other blacks is (e.g. Chicago EVERY weekend, etc.) dwarfs by many, many orders of magnitude the dangers faced by ethnic minorities from police misconduct. The demoprogsoc response was the usual when the facts are presented… you’re a racist white guy….
3 years ago
” the brutal police killing of George Floyd ”
Someone needs to look up the meaning of “brutal”.
3 years ago
Poor little New Yorkers.
3 years ago
Black lives will be saved when the blacks stop killing blacks. What is the score this weekend in Chicago? Black Lies Matter.
3 years ago
I wonder if De Blasios will be singing another tune, once the good guys and halfway good guys leave NY for greener pastures and only the protesters are left and few around to pay his wages?
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person; well unless we were talking about Portland…
3 years ago
Planet of the apes.
3 years ago
BLM. make their tiresome bullsht a capital crime.
