Our society is composed of law abiding citizens and lawless
citizens. We need police to keep the
lawless citizens in line and out of trouble.
Without police the lawless will form gangs and loot and pillage and
worse at will. Defund the police is just
a weasel’s way of saying abolish the police.
The cops I know are decent, hardworking, well informed, polite and
professional, and brave. And we need
them, on duty.
Needless to say, there are a few things we could do to make
law enforcement better and fairer.
First we ought to forbid no-knock raids. A no-knock raid simply provokes a gun fight. Bust down some one’s door at o’dark thirty and that some one will shoot to kill every time. The no-knock raiding cops are up, dressed, had their coffee, and are juiced for the operation. They outnumber the victim, and they are usually better shots. Most of the time the cops shoot the victim dead. That’s how Breonna Taylor died this year. Occasionally the victim gets lucky and kills some cops. Which gets him put on trial for murder.
The usual excuse
for no-knock raids is to surprise the drug dealers before they can flush the
evidence down the toilet. In real life a
lot of no-knock raids are conducted simply to give the SWAT team something to
do. Neither reason is a decent excuse
for putting every one to extreme risk of their lives.
Second we need an effective method of purging the few bad
apples off the force. Cops stick up for
one another. A plucking board, or
internal affairs unit, manned by cops is not going to discipline fellow cops,
and the cop’s union will defend the guiltiest cop to the death. We need an organization that can take
complaints, investigate, prosecute, and press the paper work thru to conclusion
to get the few bad apples off the force before they do something awful. This organization must be made up of
responsible civilians, not cops.
Third, cops should wear blue uniforms, not black. Black uniforms look like the SS in Nazi
Germany. We don’t want cops to look like
that in America. Smokey the Bear hats are good. Crash helmets should be limited to motor
cycle officers.
Fourth we need to purge unneeded laws from the books. Eric Garner in New York died as a result of cops enforcing a city ordinance against selling single cigarettes (loosies) on the street. That ordinance should never have existed. In a free country citizens are free to sell any legal product. There has got to be a lot more trouble making laws on the books that ought to be removed.
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