Some scary stuff... but I think there is a lot of valuable information here.
Cycle of insurgency: Cops are being targeted, what’s next?
I must respectfully disagree. The article is complete and utter bullshit.
The author is a liar, and not even a very good one.
The manure flows from the first sentence, and never lets up.
The airwaves are full of pundits screaming about violence against police officers
That's his source. MSM pundits. 'nuff said.
It rapidly gets worse. He offers " a brief synopsis of the cycle of insurgency from an article written in August of 2014"
I followed the link:
Is Nonviolent Revolution A Possibility?His "synopsis" in the article at issue lists 5 stages: Pamphlets, Reactive Protests, Preemptive Rioting, Military or Law Enforcement backlash and crackdowns, and Widespread rebellion and insurrection.
Not a single one of those phrases occur in the article he cites. HIS OWN ARTICLE. The only
words that appear are "military," "law enforcement," "widespead" and "insurrections." No mention of Pamphlets, Reactive, Protests, Preemptive, Rioting, backlash crackdowns, or rebellion.
So this guy cites his own drivel to bolters a claim that he has been predicting something that he believes because he saw it on the teewee. But his drivel doesn't support that at all; he just made shit up.
The bigger problem is that there is NO evidence of "targeted killings" of police officers.
I'll hold my nose and cite Wapo, the chief mouthpiece for all things Mordor.
Once again: There is no ‘war on cops.’ And those who claim otherwise are playing a dangerous game.Consider that source for a minute. Fox and CNN and the rest of the MSM serve the masters. They and politicians are the ones spreading the hysteria. If Wapo is calling BS on something that serves these interests, they had better be prepared to back it up. And they do.
So far, 2015 is on pace to see 35 felonious killings of police officers. If that pace holds, this year would end with the second lowest number of murdered cops in decades. Here’s a graph depicting annual killings of cops with firearms from Mark A. Perry at the American Enterprise Institute:
If we look at the rate of killings of cops, the trend is more pronounced. ...the number of police has generally gone up, while the number of officers killed has generally gone down. So your graph looks something like this one, from Dan Wang:
The other way you could measure the rate of killings of police officers is to look at the number with respect to the overall population. Here’s another graph from Perry that plots those figures:
They go on. 2013 was an all-time low for police killings, by a very large margin. That allows the liars and manipulators, including both Fox and Justin King, to talk about big jumps in 2014, even though 2014 was also near historical lows.
They show that not just killings, but the number and rate of assaults on police is plunging. You can't explain away the decline in fatalities with bullet-proof vests and better emergency care.
Any murder is a tradgedy.
But media outlets, politicians, and police advocates do real damage when they push this false narrative about a rising threat to law enforcement. First, this sort of propaganda weights the public debate and discourse. When there’s a fictional “war on cops” blaring in the background, it becomes much more difficult to have an honest discussion about police cameras, police militarization, use of lethal force policies, police discipline, police transparency, training, police accountability, and a host of other issues. Of course, that’s precisely the point.
They are talking about YOU, Justin King. You are part of the problem, an irritant and distraction to all attempts to address the very real problems.
But there’s also a much more pernicious effect of exaggerating the threats faced by law enforcement. When cops are constantly told that they’re under constant fire, or that every interaction with a citizen could be their last, or that they’re fortunate each time they come home from the job in one piece, it’s absolute poison for police-community relations. That kind of reminder on a regular basis would put anyone on edge. We’re putting police officers in a perpetually combative mindset that psychologically isolates them from the communities they serve. Incessantly telling cops that they’re under fire can condition them to see the people with whom they interact not as citizens with rights, but as potential threats.
An over-emphasis on and obsession with a “war on cops” would be dangerous and counterproductive even if it were true. But by every imaginable measure, it just isn’t true. When this false narrative comes from police organizations and their supporters, it’s at least somewhat understandable. When it comes from politicians, it’s grandstanding and demagoguery. When it comes from media organizations, it’s journalistic malpractice. And it’s almost certainly getting people killed.
That's why I must disagree with MamaLiberty's that "there is a lot of valuable information here." I submit that is it dangerous disinformation, a pack of lies and logical fallacies thrown together by a professional criminal (read his bio) for his own ends. And these lies are a factor in getting ordinary people killed by police every day, at the rate of about 4 a day so far this year.
That is evil. It is not valuable. It is despicable.
Peace,
Silver
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