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I Am A Retired Police Officer And Author Of A View from the street / River City Policing now in print. My Blog relates current events to the plight of the police as it relates to the "regulation of human conduct"

The Ferguson Missouri riots are an outrage.

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Bob Beckel and his liberal friends are responsible of this national tragedy. The Ferguson Missouri riots are an outrage. Once again the police are being blamed for the outrages of liberal politicians. Sorry Bob, but I heard what came out of your mouth.

The real genesis of this problem is the conversations that take place around the tables of black families’ every day. These conversations are born out of the ignorance that is willingly accepted as fact in this community of citizens. The conversations I speak of are the ones that tear down the police.

Folks the police are not responsible for the situation that you are faced with. Liberal politicians are responsible. They try to appease you rather than educate you. They do this because they want you to vote as a block for them and it is working. When did they ever fight for policy’s that created jobs for poor communities? They would rather hand you a check for sitting on your butts and keep you ready to fill the streets to loot and destroy the dreams of those of you who should dare to step up and invest in yourself.

The schools in poor neighborhoods are the worst in the country. Do they support charter schools? NO! Do they push for discipline in the public schools? NO! Can anyone learn in an undisciplined environment? NO! Can you get a job if you are undisciplined? NO! Will things ever improve for poor black in the inner cities if the liberal politicians have their way? NO! Why should things change? They have you where they want you. The Liberal KKK has you where they want you. Where it is easy to control you with Hate, Drugs, and your own Ignorance. As a group you should go into the streets and hug the police, join them then turn them around and sick them on the real enemy, criminal politicians that treat you as their personal property.

I know that stings but that’s what you have done to yourselves. No politician deserves your support just because? Support must be earned and not with lip service alone. By the way dependence on politicians at all is fool hardy, because you don’t get nothing for nothing. There are no free gifts. You will pay no matter what!

That young police officer in Ferguson Did in my opinion screw up, but it was not a criminal screw up it was a tactical screw up. Maybe he didn’t see it coming. I hope, I would have, if it happened to me. It did not happen to me so I’m not going to second guess him for it. He will, right or wrong, carry the doubt with him the rest of his career. He will be a better officer in the future, if he realizes that tombstone courage is best left in the locker room and everything looks better with a little backup.

Just my thoughts on the matter

S. Henry Knocker
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The Press needs to wake up:

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The Press needs to wake up:

I never met the police officer that woke up one morning and said “ I think I will go out and shoot some innocent kid today”.I saw the headline about a boy that was shot by a police officer in New York “Cop fatally shoots 12-year-old who carried fake gun”

That should read 12 year old forces a cop to shoot him. Now the officer will carry that the rest of his life.

Many times in my career I have been confronted with the; Shoot No Shoot; situation. Once I was even called out into the street in the middle of a busy intersection for an old fashion shootout at high noon.

It went down like this A little before noon on a bright fall day in the late 70s the call center got a call from a teenage male stating I was to meet him at the corner of 12th and sunset, a main intersection in that part of the town. I’ll call it River City. It was in the days before S W A T. The caller said he had a gun and he was going to start shooting as soon as I showed up. We surrounded the area and cut off traffic in all directions. I approached from the south and stopped out of range. Three other units did the same as me from the other three directions.

He was there all right. No gun was visible but when he saw the patrol car he put his hand inside his vest. He started calling out to me to come out from behind cover. Two other units covered him with rifles while I kept his attention on me. The fourth officer an ex-marine with battlefield experience in Korea was behind him. While I kept his attention this Brave Officer travelled over 50 yards with no cover and blindsided the nut with the best open field tackle I have ever seen. I don’t believe he was ever properly recognized for that act of heroism. Perhaps because, as we discovered later, the kid was not armed.

Good Job Bob. You saved me and the other guys from some tacky headline that would have proclaimed that we shot an unarmed school boy in the middle of the street. In reality he was a thug that just got tired of living and wanted to end it all.

Whether it is Ferguson Missouri, New York City, or River City: Cops are confronted with these situations daily. I just wish the Press would give a little more thought as to how the headline reads. These brave men and women get to live with the knowledge that they had a part in the death of a kid and it isn’t pretty. Thug or not!

Just my thoughts on the subject:

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Is the democratic brand being burned by this president?

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Is the democratic brand being burned by this president?
When I was a young man I identified with the Democratic Party and was one who thought Henry {scoop} Jackson would have made a great president. His conservative values with a touch of progressivism, strong stand on defense all combined to make him one of the best in my book. I doubt that a man like that could be elected in either party today. That’s how far we have come.

Now we have elected a man who is so far to the left that he can’t see progressivism in his rearview mirror. He is a week leader that hates what the country stands for. He is a bombastic liar either believing we are too stupid to see what he is, or he is so married to his socialist views that he just don’t care or give a dam what we think.

Who is to blame for this? The Democratic Party and the press are to blame. They went in lockstep down the path excusing the lies, excusing the use of the I R S to harass political enemies, and now they look the other way while this renegade tramples the constitution. This is the Democratic Party’s out house to cleanup. They made this mess and I look to them to wake up and clean it up.

The republicans need to stand back and let them clean house on this man. If they don’t we who are in democratically controlled states need to get rid of the sitting senators and representatives in the next primary election I would not wait for a general election to right this ship if I were you democrats. In my state it is Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell that need to step up or be shipped out.

I don’t call myself a democrat or republican I was a police officer for 30 years there for neutral by conscience in party affiliation. I rate my skin color as blue so don’t give me any of that racial crap.
A close read of my other blogs will fill in the rest

Warning! Democrats Get your house in order. Republicans You help them we need both of you in this or this republic will suffer.

Just My thoughts on the matter

S Henry Knocker
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Today the president will sign an executive order.

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Today the president will sign an executive order.

Well good for him. Next he will try to explain it, and we, the American People, will be left thinking “were we just lied to again”? At some point we have to say to ourselves is it worth even turning him on at all?
The short answer is yes. I can tell you from my long experience as a Police Officer that if you want a conviction you have to let the “person of interest” talk just as long as it wants to. Take down every word before he lawyers up and begins to hide. As long as he thinks he is convincing us of his innocents he will keep sticking his head further into the noose. The man is surrounded by jail house lawyers so I say let him talk and Let the prosecutors question his.

Now let’s look at the crime. It is not that he advocates this or that. We are all free to do that. It is the way he and the others, he conspires with, that make him and his crowd criminals. I believe that the criminal conspiracy statutes are coming into play. I believe it is a fact that it is a federal crime to lie to a public official. Which public officials and by whom was the lying done? The C B O is one. What makes it a crime? Well a large amount of tax dollars was spent based on information supplied to the C B O by the framers of the Affordable Care Act. And congress acted on that information DDS (Dysfunctional do-gooder syndrome) notwithstanding. Just because the D do-gooders think it a fine thing, don’t mean they can break the law and lie to the C B O in order to get the job done. Now do you see why some in congress are scrambling to disavow that M I T professor? He may be smart, but he’s no criminal mastermind. We lied to the C B O. Really you hood winked the American Public. Really you did that? Well he said he did five or six times. Did the president make you do that? Did a group of two or more of you do that?

Is the president now continuing the lie by saying the “A C A won’t do EXACTLY what Gruber said it would”. Or dose the word EXACTLY get him by this suspicious utterance? This statement says to me he knows a hell of a lot more than he is letting on.

I don’t like the Politics in this. I want a special prosecutor. Do I think we will get one? Not really. I’ll hold back my reasoning on that till I see what the R’s will do.

S. Henry Knocker
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Keystone, Seattle and D. D. S.

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Keystone, Seattle and D. D. S.(Dysfunctional do-gooder syndrome).

A hard of hearing Senate Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Bill in a Close Vote. Thanks! Patty Murray; no work for the idle construction industry, and Seattle, my home town, thinks that spending money on family leave is so much more important than fixing a few pot holes.

Let’s see, how will they pay for this? OH yah they just raised your parking fees and are looking at raising property taxes. Well, now you can pay and feel good about it D. D. S.(Dysfunctional do-gooder syndrome). at its finest has come to Seattle and it will spread all over the country. Look people! we can do what California did but, we can do it better because we are smarter than those liberals. It didn’t work there because we were not in charge there right?

Now with the aide of the local news media, the Do the Minimum get the maximum government employees are going to rip us all off again. It is all going to be couched in all the best liberal spin (Lies) and the boiled frogs won’t even know what happened.

While not the best to turn to, the Republicans’ at least they fain fiscal responsibility.

There is a pattern that is a constant in the world of liberals and it is this. The liberals keep chowing at our back sides where our wallets are until they accidently hit a nerve. Then they say they are sorry. When we quiet down they are right back at it again, nipping a little here and there till they hit the nerve again. At some point the whole thing will collapse into the soup of a socialistic hell hole they think is paradise. If you don’t believe it look at where they have been in charge: California, Chicago, Detroit and on and on

People have got to start paying attention to the result rather than the promise.

S. Henry Knocker
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