De-Policing America: The same as South Africa

Original Post Date: 2002-05-26  Posted By: Jan

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Date & Time Posted: 5/26/2002 2:57:54 PM
De-Policing America: The same as South Africa

The following fascinating story is a parallel to South Africa. Here the crime was so bad they put a moratorium on crime statistics. Then they hired 3,000 data capturers and changed the way crime was counted. Shortly after that the newspapers said: “Crime is now under control!!” What total idiots.

The parallels below between America and South Africa are startling. Change some of the names and places and you have a picture of crime in South Africa – only it is much worse here.
Jan

> De-Policing in America’s Cities:
> Erasing the Thin Blue Line
>
> by Nicholas Stix
> www.geocities.com/nstix/thinblueline.html
>
>
> Driven by racial resentment against white cops, new policies devised by
> left-wing elites are turning the police departments of major cities into
> cesspools of corruption and incompetence, putting the lives of citizens
> at risk, and threatening to erase the “thin blue line,” that in cities,
> is the difference between chaos and civilization. As incidents in New
> York, Cincinnati, Seattle, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have shown, the
> police who are sworn to protect and serve, increasingly are cowering
> before urban thugs, when they are not themselves criminals, or laughably
> unable to do the job of protecting the public.
>
> On June 10-11, 2000, New York police let black and Hispanic mobs
> assault dozens of white and Hispanic women, in Spanish Harlem and
> Central Park, before and after the Puerto Rican Day Parade. When NYPD
> officers were blamed for not cracking down on the mayhem, dozens of them
> responded that they had been ordered to go easy on black and Hispanic
> miscreants.
>
> On June 19, 2000, when the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA
> championship, rioters celebrated by smashing shop windows, looting, and
> setting police cars on fire, causing millions of dollars in damage. The
> LAPD stood down, and city leaders bragged about the non- policing
> strategy.
>
> During February, 2001 Mardi Gras celebrations in Seattle and
> Philadelphia, racist black mobs ran wild, picking out white revelers,
> and assaulting them with abandon. In Seattle, the mobs were caught on
> camera, robbing and stomping whites senseless. As many as five black men
> would assault one small white woman. On February 27, one white man,
> Kristopher Kime, tried to help a brutalized white woman, and was stomped
> to death for his troubles. A large contingent of nearby police did
> nothing; Chief Gil Kerlikowske ordered them to stand down during the
> mayhem. Sgt. Dan Beste and Lt. William Edwards, who were present,
> publicly apologized to the victim’s family. Last summer, Seattle police
> — black and white — complained that since political leaders and police
> brass were ready to sacrifice them, they were routinely engaging in
> “depolicing,” ignoring crimes, so as to protect their jobs.
>
> On March 8, 2001, a mob of black high school students “demonstrating” in
> Berkeley, California for the return of affirmative action, looted a Foot
> Locker store, and beat a white passerby unconscious, as police looked
> on. Even when pictures of the looters were transmitted all over the
> world, via the Internet, authorities did nothing.
>
> In April, 2001 in Cincinnati, incited by the Rev. Damon Lynch III, the
> head of the black supremacist Cincinnati Black United Front, and
> newspapers that portrayed vicious, sometimes homicidal black hoodlums as
> the victims of racist police, black rioters tore up the poor, black
> Over-the-Rhine neighborhood for several days, and ambushed white
> motorists, dragging them from their cars, and beating them to a pulp.
> Rev. Lynch even tried to hold a City Council meeting hostage. Instead of
> taking a stand against black racist demagoguery, white Mayor Charlie
> Luken, prostrated himself before black leaders. Last summer, as
> policemen backed off, violent crime exploded in Over-the- Rhine.
>
> Urban police departments are under intense pressure to reduce violent
> crime, which blacks and Hispanics have a virtual monopoly over, while
> not offending outraged black and Hispanic criminals, or the media and
> non-criminal black and Hispanic residents who support them. The job is
> impossible.
>
> And so, urban police chiefs have engaged in aggressively policing …
> impressions. They hire black and Hispanic candidates whose profiles set
> off alarms, and who go on to commit crimes. Philadelphia, Washington,
> D.C., and Miami have all been wracked by criminal police scandals. And
> the police misrepresent crime, by faking statistics. The Philadelphia
> and New York police forces have been caught undercounting crime
> statistics for years. Police officers are instructed — sometimes with
> cheat sheets — to downgrade felonies to misdemeanors or non-crimes, to
> not record them, or to later “unfound” them. Thus, an assault becomes
> harassment, a burglary goes from breaking and entering and grand larceny
> to “lost property,” and many forcible rapes and shootings, and even some
> homicides are either defined down, not recorded, or “disappeared.”
>
> As far back as 1996, the NYPD was caught by then-Daily News reporter,
> William K. Rashbaum, using cheat sheets, and by Newsday reporter Leonard
> Levitt, disappearing homicides and forcible rapes. Early that year, NYPD
> spokeswoman, Officer Kathie Kelly, responded to my inquiry regarding an
> alleged shooting on December 8, 1995, by assuring me that “there’s no
> shootings on the eighth.” What I hadn’t told Officer Kelly, was that a
> shooting had occurred on the A (subway) train I rode on that night, and
> that I had seen the lifeless-looking victim, and no less than 39 police
> officers at the crime scene.
>
> As reporter Larry Celona showed in the March 14, 2002 New York Post,
> since then, nothing has changed: “Documents obtained by The Post show a
> rape recorded in the (Bronx’) 50th Precinct was logged as a lesser crime
> – thus giving a rare look into what some beat cops say is a statistical
> sleight of hand used by their commanders.
>
> “According to many patrol officers, commanders sometimes reclassify
> major crimes like murder, assault, robbery and rape as lesser offenses
> to make it appear they are winning the war on crime….
>
> “In the incident at the 50th Precinct, the March 8 rape of a woman at a
> Bailey Avenue hotel was recorded as an ‘inconclusive’ incident. Only on
> Tuesday, after The Post started asking questions, was the crime properly
> classified as rape.”
>
> According to the FBI, the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) has
> routinely defined down felonies such as breaking and entering. The PPD
> has long disappeared most sexual attacks through “unfounding” them.
> According to a 2000 Philadelphia Inquirer report, “Among police, the
> practice is called ‘going down with crime.'”
>
> The PPD is also the progressive leader in hiring criminals as police
> officers. PPD spokeswoman, Stephanie McNeil, told Middle American News,
> that in 2001, “We had 26 police officers dismissed from the department”
> for engaging in criminal acts. Two of those officers, Gina McFadden and
> Dawn Norman, perpetrated an anthrax hoax.
>
> And the non-criminal officers are hardly better. On February 6, 2002, at
> the black nationalist, Imani Education Circle Charter School, PPD
> Officer Vanessa Carter-Morange violated department gun safety rules. She
> passed her gun around a class of sixth graders, reloaded it, dropped it,
> and while picking it up, accidentally fired it, coming within an inch of
> killing ten-year-old James Reeves, whom she grazed in the cheek.
> (Officer Carter-Morange will face a Police Board of Inquiry hearing,
> probably in May.)
>
> Last November 21, an AP report quoted Jim Pasco, the executive
> director of the national police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, as
> blaming poor recruitment and hiring decisions for the rise in criminal
> cops: “Making better recruitment and hiring decisions on the front end
> would ease the embarrassment of having to fire officers on the back
> end…. In almost all incidents, someone who is a lawbreaker after being
> hired had something in their background that was a red flag….
>
> “He said an accelerated hiring policy and poor background checks in the
> Washington, D.C., police department led to the ‘Notorious Class of ’89.’
> Over time, more than two dozen officers from that class were arrested
> and sent to prison for a variety of crimes.”
>
> During the 1980s, such “accelerated,” affirmative action hiring of
> Hispanic and black candidates in Miami resulted in a police crime wave.
> In New York City, affirmative action has resulted in corruption scandals
> involving black and Hispanic officers, most notably the predominantly
> Hispanic officers of the “Dirty 30” 30th Precinct in Harlem, and a much
> higher drug dismissal rate for black officers than
> for whites.
>
> As a New York City psychologist who was a consultant to the New York City
> Police Academy told me as far back as 1992, “It’s incredible, the
> pressure to pass people, just because they’re minorities. It’s all
> racial. They push, push, push, with people who are inappropriate and are
> often antisocial themselves.”
>
> As urban police brass seek to finesse fabricated charges of racism by
> hiring incompetent, and often criminal police officer candidates, based
> on the color of the candidates’ skin, and by misrepresenting the extent
> of urban crime, the cities continue their slide, and criminals
> increasingly rule both sides of “the thin blue line.”
>
> Originally published in the May, 2002 Middle American News.

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