Blacks And Liberals Won't Like This Truth

As every military person who has been in a war zone and every police officer know, and will admit if they are honest, sensitivity for the sake of sensitivity will get you killed. Ask homeowners who were sensitive to the believed plight of a stranger — and found themselves raped, robbed, and oftentimes battered by the very person they were kind to — what being sensitive did for them. Ask military veterans who found themselves missing limbs or wounded by a bullet fired from a child whose needs they thought they were being sensitive to. Ask the police officer who was being sensitive to the needs of a battered spouse only to find they themselves were injured by the battered spouse as the officer tried to arrest the batterer.

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you hear a new one. Recently I heard someone who did not like the way a police officer questioned them after the officer had happened upon them parked alongside the road. Because the officer was, if they are to be believed, rude and discourteous they are now trying to institute that all police officers be forced to take sensitivity training. Here’s a news flash: Police are not there to be sensitive per the definition of the politically correct. They are there to protect and serve. When was the last time a liberal and/or people in the community demanded that the public take sensitivity training so they are better able to understand what it is like for police officers?

Which brings me to my point. The claims of racial profiling have again reared their infamous head. And, as one would expect, no group of Americans is crying foul louder than persons of color. As I have said many times, in this day and age, no police officer, or business owner is going to go out of their way to purposely and unjustly accuse or racially profile a black person. Not with knowing that Al Sharpton is waiting in the wings for another payday in just such an occurrence.

[adsanity id=8309 align=alignleft /]Profiling for the purposes of observing those exhibiting patterns of behavior associated with criminal behavior is not racial profiling. And since, as statistics show, blacks are more likely to show said patterns, my suggestion would not be for sensitivity training for police officers but for blacks to focus on acceptable social behavior instead of demanding they be allowed to behave as they want with impunity.

When a police officer comes upon a situation regardless of whether it is a couple parked along the road standing outside their vehicle, a traffic stop, or an accident scene, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe their first initiative should be to make sure the scene/area is secure (the definition of secure being based on the situation at hand).

Police are trained to ask questions; our responsibility is to comply. And if we truly believe our rights have been violated we should keep our mouths shut, observe and remember as much information as possible and when we are permitted to leave immediately contact our lawyers. But challenging a police officer on the side of the road is a one-way ticket to spending time at the police station or even in jail.

I’m not saying police are perfect. They are human beings, not automatons. Police have the same problems that you and I have plus they work in a profession where in many neighborhoods the people would rather see an increase in cancer than a police cruiser driving through the area. They know that they wear targets on their chests and backs; and that anyone who so desires can make their lives a living hell. But, specific to that point, said accompanies their chosen career field.

Police officers hear more lies than a school teacher hears pursuant to why homework and/or assignments aren’t completed on time. Perhaps you are telling the officer the truth, but the seven out of ten of the people he has interacted with that morning have lied to him and have been caught in their lies, so hearing you say something similar, even though you know you’re telling the truth, is simply not going to be accepted at face value. Get upset with the other people who squirreled it for you — do not get upset because the officer did his job and chose not to just take your word for things.

It is also important to remember that police, like school teachers, have heard it all many times over. The fact that they give anyone a break is significant in and of itself. I’ve never been a police officer, but many of my close friends are. Police officers on duty would take meal breaks such as they got them at my house. I have personally witnessed police officers give a break to an person for driving under the influence (and by ordinary I do not mean politicians or so-called bigwigs nor does it mean the officer permitted the driver to continue driving).

In 2009, blacks comprised 25 percent of New York’s population yet they accounted for 55 percent of “stop and frisks” with the white population accounting for 10 percent of “stop and frisks.” This sounds as if blacks are targeted or singled out until you learn that during that same period blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes including 80 percent of shootings. Whites committed 5 percent of violent crimes during that period. Based on those numbers it is hard to say blacks were misunderstood and wrongly stopped. And let me add one more thought. I spent considerable time going in and out of New York during 2009, and I wasn’t stopped and frisked, nor was I always in a coat and tie. Most blacks were not stopped and frisked, but I would bet the bank that for those who were it was based on behavior, age, gang associated clothing, certain types of tattoos, time of day and location, frequency seen in a bad area, or a new face in a bad area.

There are times things go horribly wrong during police investigations. Innocent people end up being injured or even mortally wounded. But, if police are trying to secure a scene, you are probably the only person who is fully cognizant of your intentions. The police officer cannot be sure of your intentions. It can lead to a tragic outcome because if a person makes a sudden move that move can get them beaten and/or shot. In any situation, our responsibility is to follow the directive of the police officer until the situation is under control, and the officer understands there is no threat. Which in instances when the officer has been wrong they have paid with their lives or severe injury.

I believe the penchant for accommodating the idea that police are roaming the streets, malls, and back roads looking for an innocent black person to violate and falsely accuse is nonsense. And giving credence to situations before the facts are fully known lead us to the Duke University lacrosse team and Jena, Louisiana.

Without a doubt, there are bad or rogue cops just as there are bad doctors and priests. But if it is unfair to lump all blacks into the category of those in the overwhelming groupage of serial offenders and violent offenders, then I submit it is equally wrong to ascribe every police officer who is perhaps discourteous and seemingly insensitive at a particular moment of being corrupt. Jeffrey Dahmer was a homosexual cannibal: does that make all homosexuals cannibals?

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need more than ceremonial police. But we do not live in a perfect world. I should also say that claiming police wouldn’t treat a white person in a particular way is simply the black trump card. I have witnessed and have had heard about the very same type of behavior exhibited toward whites. The fact that it may not be to the extent that it is with blacks would indicate to me that many black people need to clean up their act and behave in a socially acceptable way.

But rather than conform their behavior to acceptable societal norms, blacks would rather seek pity and/or blame even instance of perceived or real slight on the color of their skin. There is a difference between racial profiling and criminal profiling. People would be fools to ignore the very real threat that many Muslims pose. And blacks are foolish to think that the aberrant of many has a detrimental influence on the whole.

But blacks and their liberal enablers would rather ignore that inconvenient truth because it doesn’t fit their dialogue.