September 16, 2013
Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals
The goon thug psychopaths no longer only
brutalize minorities–it is open season on all of
us --the latest victim is a petite young white mother of two small children
Paul Craig Roberts
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government.
At the federal level the threat is a seventh war
(Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and
ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.
The criminal psychopaths in Washington have
squandered trillions of dollars on their wars,
killing and dispossessing millions of Muslims
while millions of American citizens have been
dispossessed of their homes and careers. Now the
entire social safety net is on the chopping bloc
so that Washington can finance more wars.
At the state and local level every American faces
brutal, armed psychopaths known as the police.
The “law and order” conservatives and the
“compassionate” liberals stand silent while
police psychopaths brutalize children and
grandmothers, murder double amputees in wheel
chairs, break into the wrong homes, murder the
family dogs, and terrify the occupants, pointing
their automatic assault weapons in the faces of small children.
The American police perform no positive function.
They pose a much larger threat to citizens than
do the criminals who operate without a police
badge. Americans would be safer if the police forces were abolished.
The police have been militarized and largely
federalized by the Pentagon and the gestapo
Homeland Security. The role of the federal
government in equipping state and local police
with military weapons, including tanks, and
training in their use has essentially removed the
police from state and local control. No matter
how brutal any police officer, it is rare that
any suffer more than a few months suspension,
usually with full pay, while a report is
concocted that clears them of any wrong doing.
In America today, police murder with impunity.
All the psychopaths have to say is, “I thought
his wallet was a gun,” or “we had to taser the
unconscious guy we found lying on the ground,
because he wouldn’t obey our commands to get up.”
There are innumerable cases of 240 pound cop
psychopaths beating a 115 pound woman black and
blue. Or handcuffing and carting off to jail 6
and 7 year old boys for having a dispute on the school playground.
Many Americans take solace in their erroneous
belief that this only happens to minorities who
they believe deserve it, but psychopaths use
their unaccountable power against everyone. The
American police are a brutal criminal gang free of civilian control.
Unaccountable power, which the police have,
always attracts psychopaths. You are lucky if you
only get bullies, but mainly police forces
attract people who enjoy hurting people and
tyrannizing them. To inflict harm on the public
is why psychopaths join police forces.
Calling the police is a risky thing to do. Often
it is the person who calls for help or some
innocent person who ends up brutalized or
murdered by the police. For example, on September
15 CNN reported a case of a young man who wrecked
his car and went to a nearby house for help. The
woman, made paranoid by the “war on crime,”
imagined that she was in danger and called
police. When the police arrived, the young man
ran up to them, and the police shot him dead.
<http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/north-carolina-police-shooting/>http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/north-carolina-police-shooting/
People who say the solution is better police
training are unaware of how the police are
trained. Police are trained to perceive the
public as the enemy and to use maximum force. I
have watched local police forces train. Two or
three dozen officers will simultaneously empty
their high-capacity magazines at the same target,
a minimum of 300 bullets fired at one target. The
purpose is to completely destroy whatever is on
the receiving end of police fire.
US prosecutors seem to be the equal to police in
terms of the psychopaths in their ranks. The
United States, “the light unto the world,” not
only has the highest percentage of its population
in prison of every other country in the world,
but also has the largest absolute number of
people in prison. The US prison population is
much larger in absolute numbers that the prison
populations of China and India, countries with four times the US population.
Just try to find a prosecutor who gives a hoot
about the innocence or guilt of the accused who
is in his clutches. All the prosecutor cares
about is his conviction rate. The higher his
conviction rate, the greater his success even if
every person convicted is innocent. The higher
his conviction rate, the more likely he can run for public office.
Many prosecutors, such as Rudy Giuliani, target
well known people so that they can gain name
recognition via the names of their victims.
The American justice (sic) system serves the
political ambitions of prosecutors and the
murderous lusts of police psychopaths. It serves
the profit motives of the privatized prisons who
need high occupancy rates for their balance sheets.
But you can bet your life that the American
justice (sic) system does not serve justice.
While writing this article, I googled “police
brutality,” and google delivered 4,100,000
results. If a person googles “police brutality
videos,” he will discover that there are more
videos than could be watched in a lifetime. And
these are only those acts of police brutality
that are witnessed and caught on camera.
It would take thousands of pages just to compile the information available.
The facts seem to support the case that police in
the US commit more crimes and acts of violence
against the public than do the criminals who do
not wear badges. According to the FBI crime
Statistics
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/summary
in 2010 there were 1,246,248 violent crimes
committed by people without police badges. Keep
in mind that the definition of violent crime can
be an expansive definition. For example, simply
to push someone is considered assault. If two
people come to blows in an argument, both have
committed assault. However, even with this
expansive definition of violent crimes, police
assaults are both more numerous and more
dangerous, as it is usually a half dozen
overweight goon thugs beating and tasering one person.
Reports of police brutality are commonplace, but
hardly anything is ever done about them. For
example, on September 10, AlterNet reported that
Houston, Texas, police routinely beat and murder
local citizens.
<http://www.alternet.org/investigations/cops-are-beating-unarmed-suspect-nearly-every-day-houston?akid=10911.81835.yRJa7d&rd=1&src=newsletter894783&t=9&paging=off>http://www.alternet.org/investigations/cops-are-beating-unarmed-suspect-nearly-every-day-houston?akid=10911.81835.yRJa7d&rd=1&src=newsletter894783&t=9&paging=off
The threat posed to the public by police
psychopaths is growing rapidly. Last July 19 the
Wall Street Journal reported: “Driven by martial
rhetoric and the availability of military-style
equipment–from bayonets and M-16 rifles to
armored personnel carriers–American police forces
have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved
for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more
recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have
created a new figure on the US scene: the warrior
cop–armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly
with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”
The Wall Street Journal, being an establishment
newspaper, has to put it as nicely as possible.
The bald fact is that today’s cop in body armor
with assault weapons, grenades, and tanks is not
there to make arrests of suspected criminals. He
is there in anticipation of protests to beat down
the public for exercising constitutional rights.
To suppress public protests is also the purpose
of the Department of Homeland Security Police, a
federal para-military police force that is a new
development for the United States. No one in
their right mind could possibly think that the
vast militarized police have been created because
of “the terrorist threat.” Terrorists are so rare
that the FBI has to round up demented people and
talk them into a plot so that the “terrorist
threat” can be kept alive in the public’s mind.
The American public is too brainwashed to be able
to defend itself. Consider the factthat cops
seldom face any consequence when they murder
citizens. We never hear cops called “citizen
killer.” But if a citizen kills some overbearing
cop bully, the media go ballistic: “Cop killer,
cop killer.” The screaming doesn’t stop until the cop killer is executed.
As long as a brainwashed public continues to
accept that cop lives are more precious than
their own, citizens will continue to be
brutalized and murdered by police psychopaths.
I can remember when the police were different. If
there was a fight, the police broke it up. If it
was a case of people coming to blows over a
dispute, charges were not filed. If it was a
clear case of assault, unless it was brutal or
done with use of a weapon, the police usually
left it up to the victim to file charges.
When I lived in England, the police walked their
beats armed only with their billysticks.
When and why did it all go wrong? Among the
collection of probable causes are the growth or
urban populations, the onslaught of heavy
immigration on formerly stable and predictable
neighborhoods, the war on drugs, and management
consultants called in to improve efficiency who
focused police on quantitative results, such as
the number of arrests, and away from such
traditional goals as keeping the peace and investigating reported crimes.
Each step of the way accountability was removed
in order to more easily apprehend criminals and
drug dealers. The “war on terror” was another
step, resulting in the militarization of the police.
The replacement of jury trials with plea bargains
meant that police investigations ceased to be
tested in court or even to support the plea,
usually a fictitious crime reached by negotiation
in order to obtain a guilty plea. Police learned
that all prosecutors needed was a charge and that
little depended on police investigations. Police
work became sloppy. It was easier simply to pick
up a suspect who had a record of having committed a similar crime.
As justice receded as the goal, the quality of
people drawn into police work changed. Idealistic
people found that their motivations were not
compatible with the process, while bullies and
psychopaths were attracted by largely unaccountable power.
Much of the blame can be attributed to “law and
order” conservatives. Years ago when New York
liberals began to observe the growing high-handed
behavior of police, they called for civilian
police review boards. Conservatives, such as
National Review’s William F. Buckley, went
berserk, claiming that any oversight over the
police would hamstring the police and cause crime to explode.
The conservatives could see no threat in the
police, only in an effort to hold police
accountable. As far as I can tell, this is still the mindset.
What we observed in the police response to the
Boston Marathon bombing suggests that the
situation is irretrievable. One of the country’s
largest cities and its suburbs–100 square
miles–was tightly locked down with no one
permitted to leave their homes, while 10,000
heavily armed police, essentially combat soldiers
armed with tanks, forced their way into people’s
homes, ordering them out at gunpoint. The excuse
given for this unprecedented gestapo police
action was a search for one wounded 19-year old kid.
That such a completely unnecessary and
unconstitutional event could occur in Boston
without the responsible officials being removed
from office indicates that “the land of the free”
no longer exists. The American population of the
past, suspicious of government and jealous of its
liberty, has been replaced by a brainwashed and
fearful people, who are increasingly referred to as “the sheeple.”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/09/16/police-are-more-dangerous-to-the-public-than-are-criminals-paul-craig-roberts/
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