- Driven by racial resentment against white cops, new policies
devised by left-wing elites are turning the police departments of major
cities into cesspools of corruption and incompetence, putting the lives
of citizens at risk, and threatening to erase the "thin blue line,"
that in cities, is the difference between chaos and civilization. As incidents
in New York, Cincinnati, Seattle, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have shown,
the police who are sworn to protect and serve, increasingly are cowering
before urban thugs, when they are not themselves criminals, or laughably
unable to do the job of protecting the public.
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- On June 10-11, 2000, New York police let black and Hispanic
mobs assault dozens of white and Hispanic women, in Spanish Harlem and
Central Park, before and after the Puerto Rican Day Parade. When NYPD officers
were blamed for not cracking down on the mayhem, dozens of them responded
that they had been ordered to go easy on black and Hispanic miscreants.
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- On June 19, 2000, when the Los Angeles Lakers won the
NBA championship, rioters celebrated by smashing shop windows, looting,
and setting police cars on fire, causing millions of dollars in damage.
The LAPD stood down, and city leaders bragged about the non- policing strategy.
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- During February, 2001 Mardi Gras celebrations in Seattle
and Philadelphia, racist black mobs ran wild, picking out white revelers,
and assaulting them with abandon. In Seattle, the mobs were caught on camera,
robbing and stomping whites senseless. As many as five black men would
assault one small white woman. On February 27, one white man, Kristopher
Kime, tried to help a brutalized white woman, and was stomped to death
for his troubles. A large contingent of nearby police did nothing; Chief
Gil Kerlikowske ordered them to stand down during the mayhem. Sgt. Dan
Beste and Lt. William Edwards, who were present, publicly apologized to
the victim's family. Last summer, Seattle police -- black and white --
complained that since political leaders and police brass were ready to
sacrifice them, they were routinely engaging in "depolicing,"
ignoring crimes, so as to protect their jobs.
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- On March 8, 2001, a mob of black high school students
"demonstrating" in Berkeley, California for the return of affirmative
action, looted a Foot Locker store, and beat a white passerby unconscious,
as police looked on. Even when pictures of the looters were transmitted
all over the world, via the Internet, authorities did nothing.
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- In April, 2001 in Cincinnati, incited by the Rev. Damon
Lynch III, the head of the black supremacist Cincinnati Black United Front,
and newspapers that portrayed vicious, sometimes homicidal black hoodlums
as the victims of racist police, black rioters tore up the poor, black
Over-the-Rhine neighborhood for several days, and ambushed white motorists,
dragging them from their cars, and beating them to a pulp. Rev. Lynch even
tried to hold a City Council meeting hostage. Instead of taking a stand
against black racist demagoguery, white Mayor Charlie Luken, prostrated
himself before black leaders. Last summer, as policemen backed off, violent
crime exploded in Over-the- Rhine.
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- Urban police departments are under intense pressure to
reduce violent crime, which blacks and Hispanics have a virtual monopoly
over, while not offending outraged black and Hispanic criminals, or the
media and non-criminal black and Hispanic residents who support them. The
job is impossible.
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- And so, urban police chiefs have engaged in aggressively
policing ... impressions. They hire black and Hispanic candidates whose
profiles set off alarms, and who go on to commit crimes. Philadelphia,
Washington, D.C., and Miami have all been wracked by criminal police scandals.
And the police misrepresent crime, by faking statistics. The Philadelphia
and New York police forces have been caught undercounting crime statistics
for years. Police officers are instructed -- sometimes with cheat sheets
-- to downgrade felonies to misdemeanors or non-crimes, to not record them,
or to later "unfound" them. Thus, an assault becomes harassment,
a burglary goes from breaking and entering and grand larceny to "lost
property," and many forcible rapes and shootings, and even some homicides
are either defined down, not recorded, or "disappeared."
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- As far back as 1996, the NYPD was caught by then-Daily
News reporter, William K. Rashbaum, using cheat sheets, and by Newsday
reporter Leonard Levitt, disappearing homicides and forcible rapes. Early
that year, NYPD spokeswoman, Officer Kathie Kelly, responded to my inquiry
regarding an alleged shooting on December 8, 1995, by assuring me that
"there's no shootings on the eighth." What I hadn't told Officer
Kelly, was that a shooting had occurred on the A (subway) train I rode
on that night, and that I had seen the lifeless-looking victim, and no
less than 39 police officers at the crime scene.
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- As reporter Larry Celona showed in the March 14, 2002
New York Post, since then, nothing has changed: "Documents obtained
by The Post show a rape recorded in the (Bronx') 50th Precinct was logged
as a lesser crime - thus giving a rare look into what some beat cops say
is a statistical sleight of hand used by their commanders.
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- "According to many patrol officers, commanders sometimes
reclassify major crimes like murder, assault, robbery and rape as lesser
offenses to make it appear they are winning the war on crime....
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- "In the incident at the 50th Precinct, the March
8 rape of a woman at a Bailey Avenue hotel was recorded as an 'inconclusive'
incident. Only on Tuesday, after The Post started asking questions, was
the crime properly classified as rape."
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- According to the FBI, the Philadelphia Police Department
(PPD) has routinely defined down felonies such as breaking and entering.
The PPD has long disappeared most sexual attacks through "unfounding"
them. According to a 2000 Philadelphia Inquirer report, "Among police,
the practice is called 'going down with crime.'"
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- The PPD is also the progressive leader in hiring criminals
as police officers. PPD spokeswoman, Stephanie McNeil, told Middle American
News, that in 2001, "We had 26 police officers dismissed from the
department" for engaging in criminal acts. Two of those officers,
Gina McFadden and Dawn Norman, perpetrated an anthrax hoax.
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- And the non-criminal officers are hardly better. On February
6, 2002, at the black nationalist, Imani Education Circle Charter School,
PPD Officer Vanessa Carter-Morange violated department gun safety rules.
She passed her gun around a class of sixth graders, reloaded it, dropped
it, and while picking it up, accidentally fired it, coming within an inch
of killing ten-year-old James Reeves, whom she grazed in the cheek. (Officer
Carter-Morange will face a Police Board of Inquiry hearing, probably in
May.)
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- Last November 21, an AP report quoted Jim Pasco, the
executive director of the national police union, the Fraternal Order of
Police, as blaming poor recruitment and hiring decisions for the rise in
criminal cops: "Making better recruitment and hiring decisions on
the front end would ease the embarrassment of having to fire officers on
the back end.... In almost all incidents, someone who is a lawbreaker after
being hired had something in their background that was a red flag....
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- "He said an accelerated hiring policy and poor background
checks in the Washington, D.C., police department led to the 'Notorious
Class of '89.' Over time, more than two dozen officers from that class
were arrested and sent to prison for a variety of crimes."
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- During the 1980s, such "accelerated," affirmative
action hiring of Hispanic and black candidates in Miami resulted in a police
crime wave. In New York City, affirmative action has resulted in corruption
scandals involving black and Hispanic officers, most notably the predominantly
Hispanic officers of the "Dirty 30" 30th Precinct in Harlem,
and a much higher drug dismissal rate for black officers than for whites.
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- As a New York City psychologist who was a consultant
to the New York City Police Academy told me as far back as 1992, "It's
incredible, the pressure to pass people, just because they're minorities.
It's all racial. They push, push, push, with people who are inappropriate
and are often antisocial themselves."
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- As urban police brass seek to finesse fabricated charges
of racism by hiring incompetent, and often criminal police officer candidates,
based on the color of the candidates' skin, and by misrepresenting the
extent of urban crime, the cities continue their slide, and criminals increasingly
rule both sides of "the thin blue line."
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- Comment
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- From Jan Lamprecht in South Africa
Pbs@IAfrica.com
www.AfricanCrisis.org
5-26-2
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- This fascinating story is a parallel to South Africa.
Here the crime was so bad they put a moratorium on crime statistics. Then
they hired 3,000 data capturers and changed the way crime was counted.
Shortly after that the newspapers said: "Crime is now under control!!"
What total idiots.
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- The parallels below between America and South Africa
are startling. Change some of the names and places and you have a picture
of crime in South Africa - only it is much worse here.
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- Jan
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