Let cops do their job!

 

When President Trump held a press conference at the White House, in which he declared that he has federalized the capital police force, he made the excellent point that there are 3500 officers in that district, yet Mayor Bowser is requesting 500 more. “That’s a lot of police officers for a small area,” he said. He went on to say that more cops wouldn’t be needed if they were allowed to do their job. Trump announced that, he will deploy the National Guard and that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole will be interim federal commissioner of the force. Bondi said “Let me be crystal clear. Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today. We are going to use every power we have to fight criminals here.”

It’s easy to assume that such talk is just the repetitious rhetoric that we’ve heard from political leaders for decades. We’ve been hearing them say that violent crime will not be tolerated on the streets of our cities, as if saying it will cause the rampaging thugs to reform their wicked ways. Yet, with no strong action to back it up, the rapists, muggers, carjackers, et al, will have a good laugh as they continue to rip off the decent people of their communities. The problem is that the bad guys have no fear of the good guys. However, what Trump has embarked on will change that equation. When law-enforcement personnel know they are backed up by courageous leaders at the top of the government, we’ll soon see how quickly chaos ends.

Every city has a trained army of cops who know how to curb crime, and they risk their lives every day to accomplish that goal. But how many of them are going to risk jail terms, lawsuits, and public condemnation each time they get involved in a violent confrontation? When cops read about their fellow officers being thrown under the bus for doing the job they were trained to do, they’re very likely to hesitate when they arrive at a crime scene. That hesitation often costs them, and others, their lives. Keep in mind, there are savage people who prowl the streets every day looking for easy prey. The only thing that deters them is police presence, and even that is becoming less worrisome to the recidivist thugs because they have no fear of the feckless system that masquerades as justice.

When criminals don’t fear cops, how safe is the average civilian? During my experience working in high crime areas for 20 years with NYPD, I learned that residents of most neighborhoods want tough cops on patrol. They’re afraid to go public with their support because they have to live in those areas where such support has resulted in brutal reprisals. Many feel as though they’re hostages in their own homes. Those who live in low crime districts have no idea what it’s like to be as afraid to walk in the street as it is to remain in one’s residence. Hence, whether it’s the nation’s capital, or any other municipality in our country, we must come to a time in which we agree to let cops do their job. Not only do they know who the reprobates are, they know where they are. When reducing crime in any area, a good start is to break up the gangs that terrorize whole sections of that zone. Me and my plainclothes investigation squad knew who the leaders were, and we took them to a place where we could reason with them. If they didn’t get our drift, we took a different approach; we showed up at one of their secret strategy sessions and tried reasoning with them in front of their fellow thugs.

I’ll leave the reasoning approach to your imagination. But suffice to say, when you introduce thugs to the raw tactics they use against innocent people; when they know what it feels like to be rushed to a hospital; when they feel the pain and the fear that they’re used to perpetrating against their victims; when they no longer have control over their circumstances and no one to appeal to for help, it’ll change their attitude toward others in their orbit. Moreover, when they learn that any further criminal behavior will result in similar types of behavior modification, they’re likely to abandon a life of crime. Some liberals will read this and say we took the law into our own hands. Au contraire, we did what the law is supposed to do; we curbed crime and punished criminals. If those oblivious handwringers lived in the vicious jungle known as urban America, instead of their ivory tower, gated communities, they’d be cheering us on too.     

Cops are just people doing their jobs

 

When I look at the highly publicized violent police incidents, it's obvious why some of them result in death.  Whether it's the George Floyd "I can't breathe" situation in Minneapolis; the Michael Brown shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri; the choke-hold death of Eric Garner in New York City; or numerous other law-enforcement actions, one thing is clear: they all resisted arrest.  They might all be alive today if they had simply obeyed the lawful orders of the police.  That's what decent people do when confronted by those who represent the system of laws by which civilized people live.  We have many "rights" in this constitutional republic, but one of them is not the right to disobey the law, or those entrusted to enforce it.

During my 20 years as a cop in NYC, violent episodes during arrest situations were probably as common as they are today.  The difference is, we didn't have the internet, iPhones, and social media to broadcast every unsavory moment dealing with civilian-police encounters.  Now that everyone has a camera, we have millions of wannabe producers, directors, and editors, all of whom have opportunities to become instantly famous by virtue of selected video clips that can distort the "news" as cleverly as the N.Y. Times distorts stories about President Trump.  What the Times editors write is the slant they want you to read.  Similarly, what you view on those videos is often the slant the videographer wants you to see. 

Inasmuch as there seems to be no limit to what can be posted on social media, and no penalties for distortions that incite people to riot, we have entered a phase in our history in which the potential for violent insurrection has been placed in the hands of the most malevolent purveyors of hatred for our country and for those who have a natural disdain for authority.  Being an active cop for two decades provided me with an education about people that few "civilians" would understand.  I learned that people intuitively understand the need for a system of laws, as well as the need for officers entrusted to enforce them.  Yet, intuitive, or not, people don't like getting arrested.

During a serious criminal incident involving an apprehension and arrest, the offender often becomes a violent adversary with one goal: do anything necessary to get away.  He may be on probation for another crime, meaning that a new arrest may result in several years' incarceration.

Think about the position of the cop when he stops a man for questioning under suspicious circumstances.  The man may be wanted for murder, robbery, rape, or any number of other felonies that would put him in a cell for long time.  With that in mind, he might be desperate enough to use a weapon on the cop to get away.  Up to that point, the cop hasn't determined the potential menace he's facing, since he's only doing a preliminary investigation.  In this scenario, the offender has an advantage on the cop because he knows what he's going to do if the handcuffs come out.  Faced with losing years of his life in prison, the felon is not likely to be taken easily.

The following is often the way the situation unfolds.  The cop determines he has enough evidence to effect an arrest and informs the offender of the charges.  "Hey, man, I didn't do anything, and you're not taking me!" the guy says.  In this instance, the cop has no other options.  He's facing a man who broke the law, and it's his job to bring the guy in, period.  He can't walk away.  He can't tell the guy he's forgiven.  He can't call his superior and ask for instructions.  He must do what he was trained to do — otherwise, turn in the badge and gun.

Okay, now comes the part about getting cuffs on the guy and putting him in the patrol car.  Please trust me on this: even with a partner helping you, it's very difficult and dangerous to take someone who doesn't want to go.  A 110-pound woman can put up a ferocious battle to keep you from manacling her wrists together and dragging her into the car.  Now imagine a 6'3", 220-pound, muscular antagonist who defies your lawful order to put his hands behind his back.  The moment he refuses, the justice system is being tested.  Either we enforce our laws or we turn the country over to barbarians.

This brings me to the reason for the title of this column.  Cops are just people who go to work at a job and look forward to returning home to their families.  They know that the work is dangerous, so their adrenal glands are on high alert during physical confrontations.  Being human, they may get scared, but they must respond when a crime occurs and the offender is within their grasp.  Deadly force is always the last resort.  Still, if they get scared enough, they will do what it takes to ensure that they go home to family that night.  Hence, when deadly force is used, it's not because the cop is brutal; it's because he was trying to do his job against an offender who left him no choice.

America is a racist country

 

On a bitter cold December night, 44 years ago, a police officer was brutally murdered on the icy, dark streets of Philadelphia. Patrolman Daniel Faulkner, making a routine traffic stop at about three o'clock on the morning of December 9, 1981, was knocked to the ground and shot several times in his upper body and face. Four eyewitnesses to the cold-blooded homicide identified the murderer as, Wesley Cook (AKA Mumia Abu Jamal). Mr. Cook was convicted of first degree murder the following year and sentenced to death by execution.

Well, here we are, more than 4 decades later, and instead of an execution, we have something akin to a coronation. Mr. Cook has received money for the sales of books, written while in prison, and he has been allowed to write a column in which he regularly rants about “racial injustice in America.” In addition, his fight against the death penalty, for which he has had the support of several Hollywood celebrities, has proved fruitful because several years ago, a judge reduced his penalty to life in prison.

When I think about the facts of this case, I have to agree with Mr. Cook, there is racial injustice in this country. Mr. Cook, a black man, murdered Officer Faulkner, a white man, and to this date Officer Faulkner has not received justice. Cook, a former member of the Black Panthers and an avid supporter of anti-government, and anti-police groups, was observed firing a shot into Faulkner's back as the officer was struggling with Cook's brother William, the driver of the vehicle. The wounded officer spun around, drew his revolver, and fired back, hitting Wesley Cook in the upper torso. At that point, the officer fell to the ground, writhing in pain from the back wound. Mr. Cook staggered a few feet, then walked up to the helpless cop and fired at his chest. Faulkner was twisting furiously on the ground, trying to avoid the bullets. Ultimately, Cook placed the gun barrel within inches of the cop's face and fired again. Witnesses have stated that a few quick spasms signaled the end of Faulkner's life.

Before the officer stopped the vehicle, which was going the wrong way on a one-way street with its lights off, he had radioed for backup, as police procedure dictates. After Cook fired the fatal bullet, he attempted to leave the scene, but his wound kept him from going very far. He was sitting on the curb with the murder weapon in his hand when the police arrived. When warned to drop the gun, he attempted to take aim at one of the responding officers, who, rather than shoot him, knocked the gun to the ground.

At the emergency room of the hospital, as Cook was violently resisting the police who took him there for treatment of his wound, witnesses heard Cook shout: “I shot the mother f...... and I hope the mother f..... dies.” The witnesses who were present at the shooting scene gave signed statements to the police only minutes after the occurrence. Without deviation, each one stated that they saw Cook murder Faulkner, and that they never took their eyes off him from the time he fired the fatal shots, to the time the police arrested him, just minutes later. At the subsequent trial, the witnesses testified accordingly.

One can scarcely imagine having more evidence for a trial and conviction than the incontrovertible facts presented here. During the trial, Mumia Abu Jamal, (He became an African tribal leader as soon as he found himself in a cell) repeatedly disrupted the proceedings on a daily basis with loud outbursts and verbal threats. An extremely patient judge and prosecutor dealt with his desperate attempts to make the trial about race, even allowing him to run his own defense and interview potential jurors. In the end, the racially mixed jury convicted Mumia of First-Degree Murder and recommended the death penalty. Up to that point, the system was working. If Mumia had been taken from the courtroom, brought to the place of execution, and been forced to pay with his life, justice would have been done.

But this is America, the country where people like Mumia and others are quick to criticize as barbarous and primitive. In this country, the system of appeals is practically endless, and the race card has more stopping power than a .44 Magnum. Who cares that Officer Faulkner has been dead and buried for 44 years? Who cares that the evidence against his murderer is flawless? Who cares that the jury only needed 3 hours to arrive at a unanimous vote for conviction? Mumia is black, and that entitles him to proclaim that the only reason for his plight is his color.

Imagine if the situation were reversed. The white guy stood over the black guy and fired bullets into his face in front of 4 witnesses. Do you think the judge and the D.A. would be so patient with his courtroom antics? How many Hollywood celebrities do you think would be making appeals to save his life? Would he still be alive and able to spread his racist dogma in newspapers and magazines? Nah! He'd be toast!!

Mumia is right. This is a racist country.

 

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Bring back tough cops!

 

I may sound like an old hair bag, but when I was a cop in NYC during the late sixties, seventies and early eighties, cops had respect, even from violent street hoods and gang members. That’s because we knew the job we were assigned to do, and we did it without worrying about political ramifications from leftwing radicals who never saw an arrest situation they agreed with. We had backing from our superiors and from the political establishment. The reason we had their support was because our toughness helped make residents in those high crime areas feel more secure.

When the world witnessed street thugs pouring a pail of water over the heads of 2 uniformed NYC cops a few years ago, law enforcement was set back a generation. Such a demonstration of contempt for the law is a result of decades of liberal policies by local governments which would rather tolerate utter disrespect for the police than have to deal with riot situations that often occur after cops do the job they were trained to do. Those cops should have been fired immediately for dereliction of duty. In addition, those thugs should have been charged with assault on police officers and forced to do jail time. The reason for their punishment is not merely because of their affront to the law, but because their actions made cops look weak and ineffective.

It's been my experience that law-abiding residents of a neighborhood want tough cops on patrol in their areas. That’s because they’re smart enough to know that weak cops are useless against the brutal hoodlums who terrorize them in the streets, as well as in their homes. Thanks to the anti-American Biden/Harris regime, thousands of savage gangs have entered our country and set up operations. As President Trump has emphasized over and over, those gang members are more vicious than any we currently have in our major cities. What type of cops do you think we need to deal with them? Yes, we have an army of well-trained law-enforcement officers in every urban area. However, all their training means nothing without the backup of local authorities.

Let’s face it; we are at war with violent criminals in every major city. The public has been conditioned to believe that the police are a racist, occupying force. Yet, even a cursory examination of the victims of crime indicates that blacks are overwhelmingly murdered, raped, robbed and assaulted by other blacks. The decent, law-abiding people in those areas want more effective policing, but are afraid to speak publicly, lest they be targeted by the organized gangs who are a constant threat to their lives. The fact is, they shouldn’t have to protest in order to be safe. That’s the government’s most important function! The police are the arm of government that is tasked with that job. It’s a highly sensitive job because it deals with some of the worst elements of society. Do you think you could be an effective cop if every move you made was on video, subject to scrutiny by leftwing groups, politicians, and legal aid attorneys?

The old adage tells us that a visit to a sausage-making factory would make our stomachs turn and change our diet immediately. Police work is not for those with weak stomachs. Cops get paid to handle that which the public doesn’t need to see as they’re enjoying dinner with their families. What most cops deal with, in cities and towns across the country, often involves the worst form of human garbage on the planet. To those who would quote scripture to scold me for my language, I say walk in a cop’s shoes for awhile before you talk about something you haven’t experienced in your typical 9 to 5 job. The Monday morning quarterback is generally someone who has never donned a uniform or thrown a pass.

I’m trying to explain what I learned after 20 years in some of the busiest precincts in NYC, 10 of which were assignments in plainclothes street patrol resulting in about 500 felony arrests. If you’ve ever been in a threatening situation, what’s the first thing you do? If you look around, hoping to see a police car nearby, you are typical of every other decent citizen. Imagine if that police car made a U-turn when the driver recognized the threat. Although it’s hard for me to imagine that occurring, I know that the police have been under siege every time they make a move, and they’re only human. Every time a cop is intimidated by political and media-driven bias, we are all in danger.

Tough cops are only a danger to violent criminals. The average citizen will almost never be involved in a police incident. However, when someone is unfortunate enough to become a victim of street violence, what type of cop does he/she want to come to their aid? A Tren de Aragua gang member has lots of experience with violence. If the cop that confronts him is squeamish, you’re toast. The fact is that we’re paying cops to enforce the law, so why not let them do it? Moreover, try to understand that they are only effective if they’re tougher than the thugs they’re going up against. How safe would you feel if they were afraid to grapple with the monsters that prey on innocent people every day? How long will it be before you become a victim? Criminal behavior is like a disease that will fester if not eradicated. The only cure for it is on the streets of your city, and it’s wearing a blue uniform.