We have been demonizing the police ever since the Obama administration. There are about 700,000 police officers in the United States. They engage in about 60 million police interventions each year. Very few, only a tiny percentage, go bad. According to Washington Post data, more unarmed white people are killed by the police than unarmed black people.
When an unarmed white person is killed by the police it’s almost never reported and given little emphasis when it is.
But the situation is very different when it’s an unarmed black person. Then it’s immediately attributed to racism and given tremendous coverage.
Yet Whoopi Goldberg, unaware that more unarmed white people than blacks are killed by police, asks if “we need to see white people beaten up” to get police reform: (video takes several seconds to load)
The police have a very difficult job. Few of us would want to do what they do. They are frequently exposed to violence. They work under high risk and high stress. And their job is even more difficult in communities with high rates of violent crime. We need the police and qualified police officers.
Even if we don’t defund the police, demonizing the police is disastrous. Because we’re demonizing the police, officers are demoralized and leaving the force in droves. This leaves police forces significantly understaffed. And you can be sure that there is pressure to take less and less qualified people to staff the force.
It’s obvious that the five Memphis police officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death were not qualified to be police officers. Clearly, they are the kind of people who should ever be on a police force. They deserve to be demonized. They deserve condemnation. But too many people, like Whoopi Goldberg, ignorantly condemn all police officers. Even Joe Biden has done this leaping to the conclusion that racism is always the reason when a police intervention against a black person goes bad.
This sets up a vicious cycle, call it a death cycle, where every time a police officer engages in misconduct, people like Whoopi Goldberg condemn police generally. This makes it increasingly difficult to hire and retain qualified officers increasing the frequency of police misconduct and, in turn making it more difficult to hire and retain qualified police officers. It needs to stop. As long as we are forced to hire fewer and fewer qualified people to become police officers, no amount of police reform will solve police misconduct.
Black people are the most racist of all races and believe that other races owe them everything.
Notice when on May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota by police Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer. The Blacks rioted, burned, looted and destroyed property in almost every large Democrat ruled city, causing Billions of dollars in damage.
But when 5 Black Memphis police officers beat to death death Black Tyre Nichols, the Blacks DID NOT riot, burn, loot and destroy property. The Blacks did NOT demand the defunding of the police.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Where is the outrage from “Black Lives Matter” and prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from “Black Lives Matter”, Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson over the fact that members of their own race are summarily executing each other?
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
AND they’re racist to their own kind too!
Why does anyone give a Schiff what this worthless B-Movie Blowhard thinks ??
Just more overweighted Whoppie the Hutt verbal word flubber (A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of alcohol with a boron (boring) compound.) that bounces off the human brain in political ricochet romance.
Whoppi’s brain is to healthy political debate, what Jabba the Hutt was to healthy bodily beauty. The brutality she herself brings to the English language and American polemics borders on the same beheading terrorism that took off David Pearls ability to think and process human thoughts, making her the same kind of comic relief character she portrayed in the movie Ghost, as a foil against Ghost Patrick Swayze who could not be seen by anyone but Whoopie who was able to hear him,, unlike her real life existence, where Whoppie should be seen but never heard by anyone period.
I used to like her in films like Eddie, or the TNG treks as Guinan. BUT now i won’t even WATCH anything she was in..
She’s Miss Queen Bee now—she is a successful Black woman with her daily spot on The View—so, she’s all dat and then some.
Whoopie do needs to be ignored as her tirade is nothing but a cry for attention.