Article: War on police? Many officers fear growing tensions…

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Not all police officials say disrespect is on the rise. In Denton Township, near Houghton Lake, police Chief Dallas McGeary said he’s seen more support recently than at any other time during his 18-year career.

“Maybe it’s happening in the big cities, but I’ve had more people shake my hand and tell me they appreciate me now than ever,” McGeary said.

Darnell Blackburn, district field representative for the Michigan Coalition on Law Enforcement Standards, which oversees training for officers statewide, said there’s not necessarily a war on cops — rather, “there’s a war on the moral fiber of society.”

“It’s not just police who are being disrespected,” said Blackburn, a longtime police officer who is director of Prat LLC, a training consulting company that teaches cops conflict resolution skills and how to detect implicit bias.

“I think it permeates every aspect of society,” he said. “People don’t respect politicians; they don’t respect teachers or social service workers, or anyone in authority because there’s been a decay in morals.”

Craig is among the law enforcement officials who say the hateful rhetoric and violence has ramped up since the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson.

“That’s another example of the narrative taking hold,” Craig said. “The investigation found Michael Brown wasn’t shot in the back, his hands weren’t up, and he tried to grab the officer’s gun, but you still have people out here saying ‘hands up, don’t shoot.’ It doesn’t matter what the facts are.”

Craig said an incident last month in which a citizen used a stun gun on a police officer is another example of narrative over truth.

“The aunt comes out and says the woman only used the Taser because her brother was being beaten by Detroit officers,” Craig said. “We released the video that refuted her allegations, but it’s those kind of incidents that incite people.”

An FBI report released in May suggests several factors are influencing violence against police officers. “The Assailant Study — Mindsets and Behaviors,” studied 50 incidents in which officers were killed in the line of duty in 2016.

“The assailants inspired by social and/or political reasons believed that attacking police officers was their way to ‘get justice’ for those who had been, in their view, unjustly killed by law enforcement,” said the report.

Elected officials also have played a role in inflaming the public, the report said.

“Nearly every police official interviewed agreed that for the first time, law enforcement not only felt that their national political leaders publicly stood against them, but also that the politicians’ words and actions signified that disrespect to law enforcement was acceptable in the aftermath of the Brown shooting,” the FBI report said.

Bouchard, head of government affairs for the Major County Sheriffs of America, said former President Barack Obama helped influence negative perceptions of police.

“He issued an order about police using military equipment without even asking what that equipment was used for,” said Bouchard, who said he tried unsuccessfully to persuade Obama the equipment was needed. “There was more emphasis on rhetoric than reality.”

Anderson, the Detroit Gang Unit officer, said he tries to offset anti-police feelings by respecting citizens, and trying to talk to them.

“I just try to reach somebody every day,” he said. “I’m always trying to talk people into seeing the logic of things. Don’t listen to everything you’ve heard on Facebook.”

 

[AZTG]

Stop shooting motherfuckers and tensions will go down

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

They afraid of they own shadow

 

[atribecalledgabi]

Stop shooting motherfuckers and tensions will go down

Or stop fighting being held accountable

 

[So ILL]

Starting speaking up, checking and condemning dirty cops when they act up and tension might go down.

 

[onetoughmiracle]

“What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him? ”

"Well in the soil of the Americas, the white man planted the seed of hatred. He’s planted the seeds of violence. He’s allowed the weeds to choke the lives of millions of black men and women for the last 400 years in fact the lives of Indians in the Americas in the last 500 years and now those same weeds have choked one of his gardeners, in fact his chief gardener, and you ask me..i only say what the bible says, what the quran says, it’s justice!"- Malcolm X

 

[rickmogul]

It's White folks doing the bussing too. Implosion 101 is in progress. My people, get ya popcorn and enjoy the fuckery for once that doesn't involve us.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I find it very strange how obsessed a lot of white people are with proving they are the victims. It doesn't make sense.

 

[texas409]

coward ass pigs killing folks shooting them in the back while they are handcuffed or running away, shooting unarmed black kids and women but got the nerve to say we are starting a war against them the audacity of the devilish pigs to feel like someone gives a shit on how they feel man FUCK THE POLICE!

 

[kingtob330]

Fuck em

 

[konceptjones]

Fuck 'em all, especially Detroit police.

 

[Trillfate]

Stop shooting motherfuckers and tensions will go down

"We only shoot black people"

 

[HafBayked]

I wonder if they feel the tension in the suburbs or at Starbucks

 

[luke1733]

The group that kills the most police in America are white men. Outside of what we do to each other, Blacks as a race are largely not violent to other races unless provoked. Whites still lead the country in hate crimes.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-whites-hate-crimes-20170106-story.html

Black Americans are still largely only talking and trying to hold police accountable for their actions. Collectively as a race there have been no attacks against the police. Only individuals who with no organization acted as vigilantes.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...te-men-conservatives-silent-article-1.2632965

 

[soul rattler]

I find it very strange how obsessed a lot of white people are with proving they are the victims. It doesn't make sense.

It does make sense.

Victimhood is a privelige that their friends in Israel discovered. You ever have a girlfriend who fucked up, but when you get mad at her, she starts crying and acting like she's being treated badly? Next thing you know, you're coddling her while she makes no apologies or concessions? That's what this is about. The victim doesn't have to give up anything nor admit any wrongdoing...

Even if they aren't really the victim.

 

[qawshun]

fucka cop