Thursday, June 4, 2020

The Myth of Systemic Police Racism

Last night CMPD Officers endured yet another night of riot control duty under the echoes of "FTP" and the timeless "pig" as well as "No Justice No Peace".

We are on day six of the no end in sight of the George Floyd protests. It is hard to imagine where this level of crazy comes from, after all Minnesota is a 1200 miles from Charlotte.

It has been suggested that many of the trouble makers are transplants from Northern cities like New York and Baltimore.

Yet Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles and most of Charlotte City Council panders to these extremist activists, the NAACP, BLM and others despite the fact that the death of George Floyd doesn't appear to be racially motivated nor intentional. While the video is troubling we see no anger or any deliberate attempt to inflict injury much less death upon Mr. Floyd.

The lack of basic understanding and the belief of a myth is part of the problem, but the other part is the media and the politicians who fan the flames of racial divide to serve thier own agnda. 

In the following Op-Ed the author provides clear guidance that this " systemic racism" politicians talk about is simply not true. As I've said for years blaming your troubles on the color of your skin is just lazy. 

To all of CMPD "Let's be careful out there. - CP


By Heather Mac Donald

June 2, 2020 Wall Street Journal Opinion

Hold officers accountable who use excessive forces. But there's no evidence of widespread racial bias. 


George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “infects our institutions and our hearts.” 

Joe Biden released a video the same day in which he asserted that all African-Americans fear for their safety from “bad police” and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can “make it home.” That echoed a claim Mr. Obama made after the ambush murder of five Dallas officers in July 2016. During their memorial service, the president said African-American parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz denounced the “stain . . . of fundamental, institutional racism” on law enforcement during a Friday press conference. He claimed blacks were right to dismiss promises of police reform as empty verbiage. 

This charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. However sickening the video of Floyd’s arrest, it isn’t representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians. A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions. 

In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. 

In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. 

The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. 

In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. 

On Memorial Day weekend in Chicago alone, 10 African-Americans were killed in drive-by shootings. Such routine violence has continued—a 72-year-old Chicago man shot in the face on May 29 by a gunman who fired about a dozen shots into a residence; two 19-year-old women on the South Side shot to death as they sat in a parked car a few hours earlier; a 16-year-old boy fatally stabbed with his own knife that same day. This past weekend, 80 Chicagoans were shot in drive-by shootings, 21 fatally, the victims overwhelmingly black. Police shootings are not the reason that blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; criminal violence is. 

The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is “no significant evidence of anti-Black disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,” they concluded.

 A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police. 

The false narrative of systemic police bias resulted in targeted killings of officers during the Obama presidency. The pattern may be repeating itself. Officers are being assaulted and shot at while they try to arrest gun suspects or respond to the growing riots. Police precincts and courthouses have been destroyed with impunity, which will encourage more civilization-destroying violence. If the Ferguson effect of officers backing off law enforcement in minority neighborhoods is reborn as the Minneapolis effect, the thousands of law-abiding African-Americans who depend on the police for basic safety will once again be the victims. 

The Minneapolis officers who arrested George Floyd must be held accountable for their excessive use of force and callous indifference to his distress. Police training needs to double down on de-escalation tactics. But Floyd’s death should not undermine the legitimacy of American law enforcement, without which we will continue on a path toward chaos.

48 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have made up my mind. I will work for CMPD until September and then I am using up all my sick time and quitting.

I won't quit during the protests, but no way I stay under this leadership.

Anonymous said...

Man I gotta disagree a little. Not so much thay systemic racism in PDs is overblown. Studies show it is one of the most diverse jobs in America. I gotta disagree on the intentionality of Chauvin. 8 to 9 minutes is damn enough time to figure out you are killing a man. Screw thay dude

Anonymous said...

What I see is a racist demented cop killing a defenseless black man and enjoying every second of it. So fuck you Cedar Mouth!

Anonymous said...

There is no problem, (especially a riot) that cant be solved by the proper application of Napalm! Jelly gas will definitely have them un-assing the AO real quick...

Anonymous said...

What’s up with all these police officers I see on the news kneeling in solidarity?! WTF!! If I see any of my officers displaying weakness like that I’ll choke you out myself. Don’t do it!

Anonymous said...

I’m currently looking for other jobs after all of the bullshit and political pandering that has occurred this week. The profession of policing is dead and will never get better for those on the streets.

Anonymous said...

Make sure your families are armed. Now you see why the Founding Fathers wrote the 2nd Amendment. Every use of force you do can be you going to jail. I need to find another job. Be safe and remember this nothing but a job.

Anonymous said...

12:40. I’m with you. If they think I’m doing this for another 23 years they’re crazy. Go ahead and defund us.. when the angry mob comes
Looking for loot to steal and your the next victim you may rethink your words.
I predict a mass exodus of police in the next few months.

Anonymous said...

you can have the supplement, bye bye

Anonymous said...

Sgt Muhammed of the CMPD took a knee at a Panthers game and raised his fist 2 years ago.

That guy was put on first shift after 1 month on 3rd shift from training phase. He did absolutely nothing and got every job he wanted. He caught a promotion at 5 years.


You can't even trust the fucking people inside the walls of your station. Remember that, brothers and sisters. DONT YOU EVER KNEEL TO THESE PEOPLE OR I WILL BE WITH ^^6:10 punching you in the jaw.

Anonymous said...

2 words... Blue Flu


PS. BOA is hiring. I’m out this MoFo

Anonymous said...

I’m looking forward to the massive spike in crime myself. Should be spiking real nice about the time October and November rolls around.

All them Hillary democrats that speak one way in public but another way in private and are scared of non white folk, who u reckon they gonna be voting for?
green is the only color that really matters.

Anonymous said...

It’s such an embarrassment working for this department. This place will literally do anything to please the media. Even funnier Blake Page is on a podcast talking about policing like he even knows what it is. Not sure of the whole Buffalo PD thing either but hell at least they had the balls to stick together

Anonymous said...

Police are being neutered without their permission.

SteveN said...

Gee. Good to see ya posted, CP. I thought maybe there was NOTHING going on for the last 6 weeks since your post on Ruth's Chris Steak House....😒

OK. NOW I'll read the actual piece......

Anonymous said...

How many memorials for this guy Floyd are they gonna do? WTF! The man was no saint. He wasn’t MLK Jr. the man had fentanyl and meth in his system when he died and a rap sheet as long as Cecil’s BBC. But seriously, why make this guy into a martyr? The 4 police officers should go to jail for murder, I’m not excusing that but where is the 2 week long protest for any of the other hood rats killed by other hood rats? Doesn’t make sense.

Anonymous said...

i feel bad for the 2 rookies, They had been on the job for 4 days. That means the other 2 were their training officers. 4 days on the job and they get charge with aiding and betting to murder. Those 2 had no idea what the fuck was going on and to scared to say anything.

Anonymous said...

I just read the autopsy report and criminal charges from Floyd.

-Robbery with a deadly Weapon
-Trespass
-Larceny
-Assault
-CounterFeit Checks
-Possession of Marijuana

Toxicology Report showed evidence of Meth, Marijuana, and Fentanyl. Given his age, cholestrol and clogged arteries may have also played a factor in his failed heart. The autopsy showed heart failure due to fentanyl. The second report was changed to show axphyiation by lack of blood to brain and partial throat blockage.

Anonymous said...

Also...

Could you imagine being the woman that had a gun held to her pregnant stomach by Floyd so he could get drug money?

Anonymous said...

But the media will honor this fool like he’s the next MLK. He was a scumbag. Period. He didn’t deserve to die how he did and it was murder but come on, all 4 are going for murder. Justice done.

Anonymous said...

You guys that are nearing retirement, guess again. With the mass exodus of these younger officers that took a second guess about their career choices after all this... who’s gonna continue to pay into this already under-funded pension system?

Anonymous said...

I was just talking to my buddy last night about this. Who the hell signs up to work for CMPD now?

Who?

Who wants to work in a black neighborhood now?

Anonymous said...

Its funny that CMPD canceled the reserve unit. They could have really used those guys last week and this week. Another stupid decision by the biggest jokes in North Carolina.

Anonymous said...

Can’t wait to see the Ferguson and Baltimore effect take root in charlotte. Teach your loved ones how to defend themselves cause it’s getting ready to get real ugly across the nation.

Nobody in their right mind is gonna want to do any community policing in a community that hates them.

Anonymous said...

6:53 NC taxes, not cmpd pay.

Anonymous said...

Just bought another gun for a family member yesterday. Hyatts selling everything and there was a 2 hour wait at Shooter Express to use their range. FBI just reported that May was the 3rd highest month in history for back ground checks when buying a gun. June will probably be the highest. Can you see what is coming?

Anonymous said...

Brad Koch was out there marching with the protesters against the police brutality of black men.

Turn your fucking badge in, Brad. Did you skip the class on systematic racism is a myth?

Anonymous said...

I predict the Airport Police will get the boot first. TSA and security guards only. Reduction in police or just the word "Police".

Anonymous said...

There is no airport police anymore. That went out with Jerry Orr, remember? It’s all CMPD now

Anonymous said...

AMEN! You can see that Brad being out there marching around with the hood rats did a lot of good. Almost got him a good ass kicking! Very poor tactical and situational awareness on his part. That's what happens when you sit around in an office with your feet up on a desk for too long. He needs to stick to the podium and Podcasts so he doesn't compromise other officers....

Anonymous said...

Like that chief in MA laying face down for 8 minutes in solidarity... WTF?! You’re sad, weak and a piss poor leader when you cave to the mob mentality. What a disgrace! Remember, when you give a mouse a cookie, he’s gonna want that glass of milk. What’s next? BLM is gonna demand that you lick their booty-hole to prove you aren’t racist?!

Anonymous said...

Somebody say something about booty-hole?

Sincerely,

Anyone trying to get promoted right now

Anonymous said...

I think the command staff have different standards for that. It would depend on what type of promotion you are seeking. Tossing Salad might get you a bump up, butthole pleasures Cincinnati bow tie and dirty sanchez might get you off the hook when it comes to some days off. You’ll need to seek clarification when your in the hot seat

Anonymous said...

Anyone on here have a problem with what the CEO of CPI Security said?

Anonymous said...

Is Koch an idiot ?

Anonymous said...

Captain Brad got the ass beat off him by some 17 year old hipster in skinny jeans. hahaha. Dude, hang it up bro. You're done! This is what happens when you cater to a bunch of spoiled brats with nothing to do. Most of these bastards are WHITE that are protesting. As a black man, I take issue with this. How are you gonna protest the issues if you haven't walked a mile in my shoes? You screaming for equality but go home in mommy and daddy's BMW to yo Ballentyne address. Don't tell me the struggle is real when you don't know dick about struggle.

Anonymous said...

Ive said this 100 times. Guys that come to work with excessive hair gel are not trying to get into fights. Even criminals know this about cops like Brad. Jon Plyers gym is always accepting new cops that need a refresher in manhood.

Anonymous said...

They have a gym for guys like Brad... its called Curves.

Anonymous said...

Well city council just voted for us to not use tear gas or peeper balls. Guess a good old fashioned baton beating is next.
That thing charged with assaulting Captain Brad, Gloria Merriweather, was one of the main people that started the riots in 2016.
Case will be dismissed again by the ball less DA.

Anonymous said...

Koch is an idiot

Anonymous said...

Be glad RNC wont be coming to Charlotte. No CS or Peeper Ball, hahaha, shit is too funny. Every time you put your hands on someone you may have an assault warrant taken out on you. Good luck Po Po

Anonymous said...

CMPD just had its first defunding of its Budget. 0.03% of CMPD's budget for chemical munitions. This is just the start. They know they need Officers to answer calls. SWAT will probably be next.

Anonymous said...

What about a blue flu on July 4th?

Anonymous said...

I'm starting to get a little case of sniffles already. Could be Covid so I probably need to self quarantine for a few weeks....

Anonymous said...

I'm thinking Lemonade Fitness would be a good fit for Brad. My girlfriend goes there. He would be able to share grooming tips with the members.

Anonymous said...

Well.... Its all very crystal clear now. The city council does not support its police. Time to let the purge begin and say F$#@ it! Personally, I will be hiding in my hidey hole....

SteveN said...

June 7, 2020 at 6:53 AM

The 'young guys' having 2nd thoughts and leaving is actually taking pressure AWAY from the retirement system. Since the money put forth by the city stays there......and they no longer represent a future 'liability'. NC's system is actually one of the top 5 in the nation with funding.

Anonymous said...

Less people in the retirement system means more money for the ones already retired. Its simple. New Officers coming on probably have 5 years in them here. I think all this is a cover up for the Police Pledge fund money, Russians are involved some how. And Koch is really a Chinese plant. Well at least a circus clown in an uniform.