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What is the irony that the same community (Capitol Hill), that has been so vitriolic about the police, is now further victimized by the same "community" (gangs) that the police have been aggressively pursuing?
Actually, it's not ironic at all. It's called "de-policing." And if you don't make any discrimination (def: 'the quality or power of finely distinguishing.') between wrongful police actions, and the B.S. fed to you about Michael Brown, Garner, etc. -- then buckle your seats and get ready for the dose of criminality that is going to visit your neighborhood. Police, like all of us, respond to positive and negative incentives. Throw shit at them and scream Black Lives Matter in defense of some low-life, fine. But don't expect them to walk around your block playing all nicey-nice until someone who doesn't believe All Lives Matter shows up.
they're government employees, not a protection racket - they don't get to have feewings that affect the performance of their duties.
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What happens when affluent white gays meet homicidal delinquents?
Have you not see the de-policing statistics in Seattle. (Meet your search friend Google).
Yes, they ARE government employees, genius. So could you please find another reference point when trying to illustrate the paragons of virtue in society?
"They don't get to have feelings that effect...." Sorry: Could you be just a little more naive? They are tenured union employees in cityfuckinggovernment. (Not exactly as bastion of performance management!)
If you were a Seattle cop, are you going to go confront every single gangster, when every single interaction is prone to mindless bleating from the sheeple that you're "targeting... unfair... racists... unjustified..." yadda yadda yadda?
No. Your cops' incentives are to sit back, let a little blood flow, let some windows get smashed, let some stuff go missing,....
....and when you and your neighbors are good and truly pissed-off at the bad guys (you realize there are bad guys, not just misunderstood youth, right?), you'll welcome them back to do the thankless job of cleaning up the human messes that abound in "tolerant...progressive" cities.
And as for beat cops, Capitol Hill residents have asked repeatedly over the decade I've been paying attention. SPD won't commit to it. I've seen it in person.
Like it or not, lots of cops are needed. And when they have to arrest someone, they cant risk the crowd turning against them and making the situation worse. Of course they have helped make that possiblity more likely with a lot of their dumb behavior over the last few years.
We also seem able to fund every levy imaginable, but I havent seen one dedicated to funding more police on the streets. That is something that would pass in a landslide if it was ever on the ballot. 1% for arts? How about 1% tax of new commercial construction for more & better cops?
The only thing that might change the attitude is if a drive-by kills a few innocent bystanders to wake people up.
Is it any surprise it lacks the balls to deal with violent crime?
testosterone & a sea of cheap firearms mean that there will never be a guarantee against gun violence like this.
Tell me more about these rabid white rednecks shooting up the city.
Golden Gardens in the summer gets wild after dark. Everyone drunk or high, fights, guns out, robberies, gang battles, cars racing, etc, and not a single cop assigned down there for those weekend nights. Still.
Point is that it's not just Capitol Hill. The whole city is suffering because of this policing from 5,000 feet policy. Walk around NYC at night. Cops are out walking the streets where people are gathering.
but why don't you tell us all more about your feelings on minorities in seattle instead? you seem to have more than a few, bigot.
Spend a little time considering where most of the violence in the city stems from, and you'll understand the 'community policing' is a nice way of saying "Walk around my gay, mostly white, affluent urban neighborhood, and make sure the bad guys stay away. (But the white liberals' soft-on-criminals "enagagment" approach is thrashing poor, racially mixed neighborhoods blighted by criminality.)
In fact, watch a group like Seattle's hoover gangster crips (Sebbin-Foh!) and tell me we need nicey-nice police. We need ass-kickers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUdxBx5e…
Today: "We need cops!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTUow-FR…
Here, let me fix that for you:
Yesterday: "Cops need to start doing the job for which they were actually hired, namely, 'Protect And Serve', NOT 'Harass And Persecute'."
Today: See Yesterday
Today: "The cops are obviously still racist fascist sexist pigs -- seeing how it's only been 12 hours since we last called them that -- but nonetheless, we want more of them patrolling the streets!"
Never change rich white liberals. Never change.
i remember giving a shit when the bellevue cops killed that guy they were serving a warrant on, but i'm not gay or rich, so i guess that doesn't counter your straw man.
is it a unileg? weird. Also, did he do his own tattoos? I hope to god those arent real. looks more like a sharpie. good lord those are the worst 'toos I have EVER SEEN.
so I am not concerned. When I was their age, I was already movin and shakin and makin stuff happen, baby. you want to ride with my crew someday, you better put down the crackpipe, marijuana cigarettes, heroin or whatever else your on and get with the program. Y'all think you tough but your sissies if you have to shoot guns.
also, what was the nationality of these street urchins? white? black? hippie?