03/11/2024
In my (current) almost incessant daily reading, I've come across a great number of facts that dispell many common beliefs. These all pertain to the provision of law enforcement in our society and relevant beliefs many hold about it. I've taken the time to vet them all and deposit them here for your reading pleasure. Do with them as you will. They represent my opinions, and my opinions only.
In 2021, the latest year for which accurate figures are available, there were 73 uniformed Police Officers murdered by criminals in the line of duty. That same year, there were a total of 697,195 Police Officers employed throughout that same society which translates to 10 sworn Officers murdered per 100,000.
That same year, 2021, there were 8 (eight) unarmed black people shot and killed by Police in line of duty shootings out of a self identifying population of 47,000,000 blacks in our society. That translates to: 0.00001% or 1/100th of 1%. Any attempt at comparison between the two is foolhardy to the point of assininity.
These facts come from such sources as the FBI, Statista and the Washington Post, hardly bastions of conservative propaganda.
Currently, half of our society is stampeding to defund the police, retrain the police, redirect law enforcement resources, ignore the various permutations of "minor," "victimless" or "property" crimes and promoting prosecutorial discretion in refusing to try criminals for their malfeasance, all of which have the net effect of camouflaging the blame and redirecting responsibility; punishing the victims.
Personally, I'm fed up beyond the point of infuriation with all the counterfactual, counterintuitive, woke, critical-what-have-you efforts to remake our society into some sort of communist, collectivist cess pool where we all get to bow to our new masters: the illuminati, the elite and the radicals. I ain't gonna do it and neither should you. And let me leave you (for now) with this final thought:
It is absolutely impossible to right any wrong, cure andy ill or address any problem when you refuse to acknowledge it's root cause and those who perpetrate it.