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Just when I thought that America couldn’t possibly get any softer, people start suggesting that there’s a role for the police in preventing knife murders. The snowflake generation strikes once again.
Is there any tradition that the radicals won’t ruin? As the brilliant Bree Newsome pointed out on Twitter, "Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons." And now people are calling the cops on them? I ask: Is this a self-governing country or not? When Newsome says, "We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon," she may be expressing a view that is unfashionable these days. But she’s right.
Disappointingly, my colleague, columnist Phil Klein, has felt compelled to join the critics. Phil asked in a sarcastic tone whether the police should "somehow treat teenage knife fights as they would harmless roughhousing and simply ignore it." My answer to this is: Yes, that’s exactly what they should do — yes, even if they are explicitly called to the scene. I don’t know where Phil grew up, but where I spent my childhood, Fridays were idyllic: We’d play some football, try a little Super Mario Bros, have a quick knife fight, and then fire up some frozen pizza before bed. And now law enforcement is getting involved? This is political correctness gone mad.
It’s hypocrisy, too. Who among us hasn’t come within a second or two of murdering someone else with a steak knife? My best friend in school, Bobby "The Blade" Simpson, used to throw shivs at the smaller kids in the music room. Did we need the authorities to step in when that happened? No, we did not. As MSNBC’s Joy Reid argued smartly on her show, pranks such as these were dealt with by our teachers — just as we all expected they would be. And if something went wrong? Well, that’s why we had substitutes.
In all honesty, I worry that this sort of helicopter policing is making us weak. Back in my day, the people who survived a good stabbing came out stronger for it. I learned a lot of lessons from my time in the ring: self-reliance, how to overcome fear, the importance of agility, the basics of military field dressing. And, given the turnover, I also learned how to make new friends.
Today, the free-range generation to which I belong is dying out — and, this time, it is not from the wounds inflicted by everyday teenage knife fights but because our politicians and activists simply cannot leave us be. From the time of the Colosseum, our civilization has had a tradition of lightly regulated, highly entertaining combat. Who are we, exactly, to think we know better?
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You don't remember those books from school days?
Oh the Woke have
Great big teeth, deah
And they use them
On cringing whites
Oh, the line forms
On the LEFT, deah
Now that Woke-y's
BACK in tow-own
Look out! ol' Woke is BACK
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my post 'knife hugging' yesterday was snarc
Thank you for explaining, my dear. I’ve been very sheltered, both as a child and as an adult, and have no idea. Mr. Wife talks about sitting in the high school cafeteria and keeping watch over each other’s shoulders, and the summer he and his best friend never left home without an ice hockey stick or baseball bat, but I remember precisely one fight in the school halls in the twelve years I went there.
#7
If Ma'Khia were shouting Allah hu akbar while raising the knife, the cop would've done the same thing. And that is what really matters. Because if you decide that black crime is acceptable you'll have no choice but to accept the others. And in that direction lies oblivion.
#8
And the other gal getting The Undertaker kick to the head; and that isn't a Trying To posture that is a gladius kill. Pinky was going to die, and likely the other gal too.
Rookie cop, DM? Rookie of the Year. Quick, correct decision, every shot on-target.
#10
No other than the child-god Lebron called for extermination.
Problem is, Bron Bron isn't a leader he is a follower, he just saw some trending tweets in between GED studies and looked for a face position on the parade float like some douche Mardi Gras politician.
He's a fking face poised to make bank from companies poised to make trillions by keeping the black community like this, or worse.
Seriously, Disney and Spider-verse? Break-through black super hero story right, like the white made make believe Wakanda the best parallel to the overachieving white kid is a school dodging graffiti artist?
"The best and the brightest of the black community all dream to one day tag train cars. You're welcome. Watch Space Jam 2."
#14
OK, if that's they way the wanna be about it, police can stay completely out of black neighborhoods. Let them deal with each other as they see fit. But when they show up in the Emergency Room with stab wounds and gun shot wounds they better have insurance because I don't wanna pay.
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Now if we were to do that, to be in keeping with the Democrats planning, they'd just euthanize anyone showing up with knife or gun wounds.
Taken directly from the FBI's 2019 Crime Data (collected prior to the Harris/Pelosi Admin)
Profile of alleged known assailants
In 2019, 49 alleged offenders were identified in connection with the 48 law enforcement officers feloniously killed. Of those offenders, the following characteristics are known:
The average age of the alleged offenders was 31 years old. (See Table 40.)
The average height was 5 feet 10 inches tall, and the average weight was 181 pounds. (See Table 41.)
48 alleged offenders were male; 1 was female. (See Table 42.)
28 of the alleged offenders were White, (58.3% for a population accounting for about 60%)
15 were Black/African American,
(31.2% for a population accounting for about 14%)
and 1 was Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. (2.08% for a population accounting for about 0.4%)
Race was not reported for 5 of the alleged offenders. (See Table 42.)
12 of the alleged offenders were under judicial supervision at the time of the incidents. (See Table 45.) or about 25%
9 of the alleged offenders were under the influence of alcohol and/or a controlled substance at the time of the fatal incidents. (See Table 45.) or about 18.75%
36 of the alleged offenders had prior criminal arrests. (See Table 46.) or about 75%
SUMMARY
After looking over the whole FBI Crime Data Table on Police Murders.
It seems any police officer in a patrol car pulling over a 5'10" 25-30 year old previously convicted, on probation, under the influence Black male driver (Black vs. White traffic stops) in December has the most likelihood of being murdered.
#6
Actually those numbers are misleading. The black > white disparity is even worse: the killers are divided into only 4 racial categories -- Hispanics apparently are lumped in with whites -- but the general population figure for whites is listed as only 60%, which means they're breaking out Hispanics from whites.
As the Census reminds us, Hispanics can be classified as either white or black. If you assign Hispanics to either the white or the black category -- as the crime figures here apparently do -- then whites become about 78% of the general population.
Which means that in 2019, the black population produces about 3x as many cop-killers per capital as the white population. Note that this is despite the fact that (as Steve Sailer has pointed out) black shooters have dramatically lower rates of accuracy than white shooters.
I'll bet the B:W cop-killing ratio increased to 4x or 5x in 2020.
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Some Americans learned at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, et al that frontal attacks that move at the speed of a walk do not work well other than getting a lot of people killed. The general consensus of the European military establishment was that little of value was learned from the American Civil War experience other than the Prussians who adapted aspect of the use of railroads to rapidly coordinate and move personnel.
#2
The sad thing was that "Little of value" was learned from the Boer War as well. There was initially some attempts at expanding skirmisher training to the masses of infantry BUT it was resisted by the higher command. As one Prussian general was quoted: "We spend all that time drilling them to operate as a unit and now you want us to train them to be a mob!" (or words to that effect)
#3
...the British did decide to stop wearing bright red coats after experiencing what a Mauser rifle in the hands of a competent shooter. They also discovered that their direct fire cannons, a favorite in the colonial wars, were also outranged by Mausers...
#2
NGO is lobbying to restrict US military aid to Israel and moving towards a ‘confederated state’ to replace Israel.
They didn’t actually advocate disarming the Jewish population of the new single state, or putting the Palestinians in charge of internal security and policing...
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Lebanese Deputy Elie Ferzli stirred controversy in political, military and popular circles after calling for the Commander of the Lebanese army, Joseph Aoun, to remove the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , from Baabda Palace and assume power.
Ferzli’s surprise has two dimensions. The first is that it came from a political figure who had advocated Michel Aoun’s reign and defended it ferociously, a figure linked to the Syrian-Iranian axis that supports Aoun and has close ties with what remains of the regime in Damascus.
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Posted by: Fred ||
04/24/2021 00:00 ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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