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The Patriot Post Digest 8-11-2016
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The Associated Press, which is more than happy to perpetuate the Left’s racial grievance narrative, reports24, “With startling statistics, a federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department documents in 164 single-spaced pages what black residents have been saying for years: They are routinely singled out, roughed up or otherwise mistreated by officers, often for no reason.”
Certainly, it would be naïve to claim racism doesn’t exist or that all cops are saints — but categorically declaring the police department of an entire major city as the KKK in blue suggests there’s more to the story than the so-called “startling” statistics.
Indeed, when you consider what’s missing from the report from this 15-month federal investigation, the statistics may seem more selective than startling. For example, while the investigation was prompted by the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, the Washington Post notes25 that “Justice Department investigators did not focus … on Gray’s death in particular. That is part of a separate, ongoing federal investigation. Instead, they assessed generally how police do their jobs in Baltimore.”
You’ll recall that all six Baltimore officers involved in the Gray case were either acquitted or had charges thrown out, despite the city’s settling with Gray’s family for an astounding $6.4 million26. That notwithstanding, the city’s mayor was cheered as she gaveled in the Democrat National Convention last month.
Nevertheless, the city’s police are racist. This is strikingly similar to Ferguson, Missouri, where the Justice Department cleared police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown yet still concluded27 Ferguson’s police are racist all the same.
Also intriguing, to say the least, is that numbers provided by the Baltimore Police Department showed more than half of the city’s active duty police officers are minorities — black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American — including more than half of the city’s police officers with the rank of captain and higher.
What is the Justice Department really getting at by targeting the department with accusations of racism? In the end, like everything Barack Obama does, this is about one thing: control. As Jazz Shaw observes28, “In perhaps the most chilling section of the account, the Attorney General is said to be seeking a court-enforceable consent decree to force the police agency to commit to improving its procedures in order to avoid a lawsuit. … Local policing, traditionally under the control of the state or municipal government, will be met with lawsuits brought against these same local entities if Washington doesn’t approve of their performance.”
Yes, Baltimore, you must now conform to the federal government’s dictates — or else.
Of course, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. This is the same federal government that wants to control kids' education29, make neighborhoods comply with federal racial quotas30, dictate Americans' health care31, force nuns to pay for contraception and abortion32, require schools to let boys in girls' locker rooms33… and the list goes on.
Just like community policing, all of these are either local, state, or “none of the government’s business” issues. But when it comes to control, Washington recognizes no boundaries.
Meanwhile, following Obama’s pattern of attacking the men and women in blue34 who keep us safe every day, Hillary Clinton isn’t even trying to earn the endorsement of the National Fraternal Order of Police, which represents 335,000 members. The union’s president rightly observed that this “sends a powerful message” — and not a good one.
It seems the Left’s new hallmark is opposing the members of the Thin Blue Line who, despite the snub, continue putting their lives on the line, even for those who least appreciate it35.
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Hans von Spakovsky: “It looks as if Texas, the Justice Department, and all of the other parties, including the NAACP, involved in the challenge to the state’s voter ID law have worked out an interim settlement — and the district court judge approved the deal … after a telephonic hearing Wednesday morning. … The parties have agreed that Texas voters who don’t have one of the acceptable photo IDs under the statute will still be able to vote if they: ‘present a valid voter registration certificate, a certified birth certificate, a current utility bill, a bank statement, a government check, a paycheck, or any other government document that displays the voter’s name and an address and complete and sign a reasonable impediment declaration.’ … Texas actually managed to get better terms than either North or South Carolina since, in addition to completing a ‘reasonable impediment’ declaration, the voter will have to show some kind of document such as a utility bill or bank statement with his name and address. … It is not as good as a government-issued photo ID, but this is probably about the best that Texas could get given the federal judges it is dealing with in the 5th Circuit. And it is difficult for the Justice Department to claim that a requirement modeled on a federal voting requirement is discriminatory.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “Many Democrats, it’s no secret, see these perversities [in ObamaCare] as a feature and not a bug — bringing closer the day when Washington will take charge of health care entirely. It’s their article of faith, impervious to experience, that the solution to government screwing up health care is to give government more power over heath care.” —Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
Observations: “To appease radical activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, [Baltimore] police pulled back from their aggressive practices in high crime neighborhoods. Guess what happened? The murder rate spiked dramatically. And in a city that is overwhelmingly black, most victims of crime are also black. When those statistics came out, people were critical of the police for ‘not doing their job.’ So what are the police to do? If they lower the crime rate through aggressive policing, they are accused of racism. If they back off and the crime rate goes up, they are accused of neglecting minority communities. You just can’t win if you’re wearing blue.” —Gary Bauer
Alpha Jackass: “The death of [Justice] Scalia saved labor from a terrible decision. And I don’t wish anyone ill, but it happened at a good time because once that decision had been made, it would have been tough to reverse it.” —Ted Strickland, former Ohio governor and current senatorial candidate
Consider the source: “Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington. … Our sources take risks.” —WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on yet another death for crossing a Clinton38 (Not that Assange is a trustworthy source…)
Demo-gogues: “[Hillary Clinton] disagrees with his views and disavows his support. … This individual wasn’t invited as a guest and the campaign was unaware of his attendance until after the event.” —Clinton’s campaign finally getting around to disavowing the support of Seddique Mateen, father of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen, after he photobombed her rally39
And last… “When you cry ‘But SCOTUS!’ you don’t seem to comprehend what you’ve done. Like someone crying ‘My photos!’ after setting [their] own house on fire.” —Frank Fleming
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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