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THE KILLING OF POLICE OFFICERS in 2014

Detective Melvin Santiago was a Jersey City police officer who was shot to death on July 13th. Santiago was white. His killer, Lawrence Campbell, was black. Officer Jeffrey Westerfield was a Gary, IN police officer who was shot to death on July 6, 2014. Officer Westerfield was white. His killer, Carl LeEllis Blount, Jr., was black. Officer Perry Renn was an Indianapolis, IN police officer who was shot to death July 5, 2014, the day before Officer Westerfield was killed. Officer Renn was white. His killer, Major Davis, was black. Vermillion Parish Deputy Sheriff Allen Bares was shot and killed by two men June 23, 2014 in Louisiana. Deputy Bares was white. His two killers, Quintlan Richard and Baylon Taylor, were black. Detective Charles Dinwiddie of the Killen, TX Police Dept. was murdered on May 11, 2014 by Marvin Lewis Guy, a black male. Officer Dinwiddie was white. Officer Kevin Jordan of Griffin, GA Police Dept. He was shot and killed on May 31, 2014. Officer Jordan was black. His killer, Michael Bowman, was white. This was a white man murdering a black police officer. Over the past Months, these examples of reported deaths of police officers by gunshot in the U.S. Of those, four were white officers who were murdered by black men. one was a black officer murdered by a white man none were a cause of a riot {Fact checked}

Locally we have had Four Lakewood Washington officers shot while getting Coffee on Sunday, November 29, 2009, at the former Forza Coffee Co. coffee shop. By a black male suspect and a white Seattle officer was ambushed sitting in the patrol car by a black male who felt oppressed by the police. the left took his side Fact checked

I believe that all of this is being driven by the myth that the police are profiling black men. I don’t even know what that means. Profiling, what is it? I found this in the University of Ottawa’s Department of criminology Journal. Thomas Gabor Volume 46/ number 4/2004

“ profiling as defined here, is a
form of racial bias whereby citizens are stopped, questioned, searched,
or even arrested on the basis of their minority status per se, rather than
due to a demonstrated, elevated risk of law-breaking”

.” Several rigorous studies undertaken in the United States provide evidence
of such “racial profiling.” For example, John Lamberth of Temple
University (cited in Harris 1999) sent out teams of observers to the New
Jersey Turnpike and, based on observations of over 42,000 vehicles,
found that black and white drivers violated traffic laws at virtually
identical rates. However, police records indicated that 35% of those
stopped and 73% of those stopped and arrested were black, while only
13.5% of the cars on the road had a black driver or passenger. Lamberth
concluded that “it would appear that the race of the occupants and/or
drivers of the cars is a decisive factor [in the number of stops of blacks]
or a factor with great explanatory power” (Harris 1999: 198).”
Police are being killed because of this perception

How is it possible for these statistics to be twisted in this manor? Are New Jersey State police really sitting by the side of the road and stopping every minority that passes their location? I don’t think so. I would make an educated guess that most of the stops on the turn pike are generated by RADAR and are at least initiated by a speeding vehicle. Sense it is virtually imposable to determine the race of someone prior to the radar contact and there are teams of officers working the radar how does this disparity manifest its self? Are they writing the blacks and letting the whites go? I don’t see that happening. That could only happen if you had two officers working to gather with that in mind. Otherwise the radar operator would become concerned that his chase people were messing up the log with a large number of stop and release notations.

No I would guess that the rate of traffic violations is related to the overall crime rates. People that commit traffic violations commit criminal acts also and sense there is a higher crime rate in the minority community they get stopped more on the turnpike for traffic related offences. Poverty drives this just like it drives the crime rate. I question the Temple study cited in (Harris 1999)

Why do I question this on its face? In 30 years of observations of police I can tell you that 90 % of drivers stopped by a traffic officer are cited and about 10% of those stopped by a Patrol officer are cited. Sense the study was done on the turnpike I have to conclude that the vast majority of the stops were done by traffic officers These guys have a magic number in their heads if you go over that number your most likely will get a ticket. As the saying goes, “day or night black or white stop and cite”.

To study this properly the investigators needs to eliminate their own biases this can be done by picking officers at random and checking the license plates that they run. Send your teams out to check the ethnicity of the owners / operators of the vehicles. Then check the data against the makeup of the area the citations come from. A few bad officers can cause a perception of unfair targeting in a community. Most officers would welcome this kind of scrutiny. There is another variable to think about. If you believe you were unfairly cited you are less likely to Pay the fine and are more likely to have a warrant for your arrest. Arrest warrants are mandatory arrest in most cases Now we have a chicken or the egg dilemma. That’s all I’m going to give you to think about today.

What do you think? Please comment; Keep the dialog going.

S. Henry Knocker
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The head and arm take down and the choke hold.

Well the liberal press did it again they let their alligator mouths overload their hummingbird asses.

Those of you in the press that keep referring to the head and arm take down in the New York death case need to get your facts right. First it was a takedown not a choke down. look at the position of the officers arms when he first grabbed him. The right arm was under the man’s right arm and the officers left arm was over the left shoulder and was not in the classic choke possession. Then the man was spun down to the ground. Again not how you choke a person out.

The problem for the group of officers is that once on the ground no one took charge and directed the hook up. That should have been the job of the ranking officer. I heard there was a sergeant on the scene and maybe a captain? I have done hundreds of these takedowns it should have gone down like this. #1 exhaust all reasonable attempts to get voluntary compliance. #2 Then explain to the man that the hard way is dangerous and they are ready to use overwhelming force to make him comply. #3 get in good position for the takedown. In this case if it were me in charge I would have had the biggest man doing the head arm part of the takedown and the smaller guys on the arms. But that is just me; less chance for a break away. Once he was on the ground; then comes the hookup. He was a big guy; preplanning should have recognized two sets of cuffs were needed. After the cuff up comes the sit up. It should have been a bang-bang deal. I would have had him sit up with his back against the wall and someone sitting on his knees if necessary. Leaving a big man face down on the ground was the problem in my considered opinion.

This was not the fault of one officer; it was a failure of leadership. I will offer this observation; from what I saw there may also be an issue with some of the officers being out of shape. Exhausted police officers don’t think well sometimes. The fact that they didn’t respond with first aid when they heard his complaints of not being able to breath says to me that someone or all of them were not thinking properly in this situation.

How then do we assess blame here? We certainly can’t lay it all on one guy. It is a matter of how far up the chain of command this goes. People should not die because police are not well trained and the street cop is not in charge of that.

The demonstrators are right to be upset but let’s get upset at the right problems. I feel for the man’s family but one officer did not cause his death it was a group effort and the group involves some politicians. Politicians don’t take blame well they are always looking for the scape goat to absolve them of their sins. When police officers are involved it is usually them.

S. Henry Knocker

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Where do the media find these talking heads that can’t understand probable cause?

Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. – See more at: http://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/#sthash.WPB3rhZK.dpuf

Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

So what do they want? Is it to give Officer Wilson let’s say $10,000,000 for the gross violation of his civil rights to a “judgment of probable cause” Do they really want to send him to a trial absent this standard? I think it would be a slam dunk and not take the Supreme Court more than five minutes to give the officer the bucks, and then disbar every lawyer involved.

I know what I’m talking about. I have had my probable cause statements used in constitutional law classes taught by a well-respected judge. He thought I had an “excellent grasp of the concept”.

Liberals are never stupid unless, it is a willfully political stunt, to in slave the willfully ignorant. This mess could wind up costing the state a ton of money once Officer Wilson wakes up and realizes that the governor and several other politicians have already violated his rights, not to mention the federal department of justice.

If I was a big bucks civil rights attorney, I think I would jump up and take this one.

I raise my glass to you go get them Mr. Wilson

S Henry Knocker
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The slow strangling of the middle class

Those of us that are seen as middle class are slowly being strangled by the insidious attacks of these liberal governments. Dailey I am made aware of some new tax or regulatory change that cost me a few pennies more. It has gotten to the point that we are talking about real money here.

The biggest of these is the massive increase in health care. In my case a $168.00 increase in my wife’s health care insurance premium an additional $2016.00 a year plus the increased in the deductible of $2000.00 then there was a $150.00 extra each year I had to shell out because of a rule the state insurance commissioner decided to implement. School levies are now yearly expenses that never go away. They used to be only necessary when a new building was needed. Add to that all the school supplies we now have to buy. Most of that stuff was supplied when I was in school.

What happened? Well it went like this, teachers and public employees wanted raises and they needed and deserved them. The politicians wanted a legacy. For those of you who don’t know what that is, a legacy is getting your reward on earth and not in heaven. This legacy thing gets all balled up with providing roads and bridges and stuff like that. It always cost us the taxpayer more than we would like. A bronze plaque for this, a bronze plaque for that, and now you’re talking real money that could have been used for school supplies. Maybe you think this is a proper use of public monies maybe you don’t. I wish they would just leave it there, but they don’t

Some Counties are now passing laws that take away plastic bags in the stores we shop in. They won’t let us go back to paper bags because the spotted owl cause might have to be re-lied about. What could be wrong with that? We are saving mother earth!

Well let’s see they put a .05 cent charge on the paper bag, if you need to have one, or you can buy a cloth or plastic bag for from .88 cents to 15.00 dollars depending on how fancy you want your reusable grocery bag to be. Now we have to carry those dang bags with us everywhere because we never know when we might want to stop at the store and pick up a few things. Now those bags get dirty and some of you wash them and some of you carry your pet ferret around in them and then plop the dirty things on the counter in front of me at the grocery store. Now I just know that I will be using my health care deductible even more.

It is an economic fact that there is nothing the government dose that cost me and you nothing. They tax us directly or they do it indirectly they prefer to do it indirectly because it is harder for us to detect but it all trickles down to us. Frankly I would rather have Jobs trickling down than some new mandate, fee, or tax. How about you?

S Henry Knocker
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The lynching of a blue person

You would think that a community that endured unspeakable atrocities in the first part of the 1960, and witnessed the birth of freedom generated by DR. King, would be just a little bit more concerned when elements in their community start lynching the very people dedicated to the preservation of the rights they so bitterly won.

The police, whether you believe it or not, are a minority too. It does not matter what color you are when one joins the police. What matters is what color you are when you are deployed to the streets. Police officers are not white, black, yellow or red they are blue. They stand in the breach for law and order.

There is a transition that occurs as the officer matures. The officer in effect becomes blue. If this transition is not evident at the end of an officers probation they are terminated. Can one or two slip, through the screening? Yes that can and will happen from time to time.

It happened in Mississippi when a racist sheriff was elected and he hired, what were openly KKK members, as deputies and Mississippi burned, remember that? The KKK was Happy to see that the result of their criminality was the destruction of a community. They are happy to see this community is at odds with the very people that brought the KKK to justice, and continue to suppress their agenda.

Stop looking at the police as the enemy. Some politicians are the enemy. Look at who or what group is abdicating disorder. That person or group is KKK and they are at it again. It don’t matter what color they are.

Officer Wilson did not shoot a school boy. He shot a suicidal thug that ended his own life by attacking a police officer. The KKK among you are sticking their hands in the air and repeating a lie designed to destroy what should be a close relationship between a community and It’s police officers.

Please read my blog ;( a P S A for Ferguson Missouri) they are YOUR police. You need to be a part of the police, not at war with them.

S. Henry Knocker
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Into the Streets you Blue People

Is the grand jury meeting now to consider whether to indict the witness that lied to them?
Lying to incite a riot? That is the question that bothers me. Can a person be held to account for the lies they tell that incite others to commit criminal acts? We have thugs, politicians, and newspapers all spreading lies and people all over the world are in the streets because of the basic lie that police are racist.

I am here and now calling on police all over the world to protest this myth. Go into the streets with your faces painted Blue as a statement that there are no “white Cops”. There are no “black Cops” there are no cops of any color but “Blue” There are more racist in the clergy than there are racist Police officers

Shame on you people that believe this tripe, shame on you liberals that believe those lies. Shame on the press for printing the lies and showing that thugs picture in a cap and gown as though he was anything other than the thug he was.

You COWARDS ! How dare you impugn these brave men and women.

We have had about enough of it

Into the streets my brothers and sisters into the streets, paint your faces get those that support you to hold up signs that say shame on you that believe the lie.

S. Henry Knocker
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The Reason I have said; “You have to give thugs a reason not to do it”
If ever there was a time to get back to sending a message it is now. Riotous thugs need to be shot on sight! What happened to us? We have been wossfied by the left leaning press. The only reason to deploy the National Guard to a riot zone is to send the message that riot will not be tolerated. Letting a bunch of thugs burn stores under cover of legitimate protest is the height of folly.

This all started with the Kent State National Guard confrontation May 4th 1970. The fault was the inappropriate use of the guard to police a war protest on a collage campus. The guard should only be used when there is a clear and present danger of riot. It should never be used to score political points.

The Governor of Missouri needs to resign, and the folks hurt by his inept administration need to be compensated. There was never a more clear case of politicizing crisis in the history of this nation since the Army was used to put down the veterans bonus army incident in Washington D C in 1932

Governor Nixon being warned, that thuggish elements within the mix of protesters, were planning a repeat of the earlier mayhem that occurred in Ferguson; rightly activated the National Guard.

Unfortunately for the people of Ferguson, that’s as far as he was willing to go. He should have announced that if there was any repeat of the looting, the looters would be shot on sight. He then should have placed a military leader out front. If he had there never would have been a second riot.

But he was a yellow bellied liberal coward and look what transpired? Millions in damage and people killed anyway.

Believe me you just have to give thugs a REASON not to do it.

S. Henry Knocker
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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:

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:

S. Henry Knocker
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