OBAMA’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS DETERMINED THAT THE POLICE ARE WRONG WHEN CRIMINALS ARE INJURED OR KILLED WHILE RESISTING ARREST

U.S. Department of Justice Reform = Less Police, More Crime, More Violence

By Richard Krupp, PhD

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 5, 2015

Aside from the recent imbecilic get out of jail free movement emanating from the oval office, the Justice Department has pursued an attack on police departments across the country.

After determining that the police are wrong when criminals are injured or killed while resisting arrest, the screws are placed on police departments in an attempt to bolster criminals. This nonsensical scheme is part of the President’s apparent move to support criminals and handcuff police.

Crime rates rise, people are killed, assaulted, and victimized by “non-violent” and violent criminals all over the country.

We are experiencing a renaissance of crime here in California right now. Stories abound regarding similar problems (not challenges) in other large cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

I came across an article regarding the crime renaissance in Albuquerque, New Mexico recently. Here are excerpts from the Wall Street Journal:

Albuquerque Leaders Struggle With Recent Killings; Shootings spur outcry, with politicians, prosecutors and police pointing fingers about who is responsible

On Oct. 20, a 4-year-old girl traveling with her father in a pickup truck was shot and killed by an angry driver in a road-rage incident. A day later, a policeman was shot multiple times during a traffic stop—the third officer shot this year in this city of about 550,000, which sprawls out into the New Mexico desert. Early Thursday morning, the officer, Daniel Webster, a decorated eight-year veteran, died from his wounds.

Leaders of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association, which represents the majority of the force, say the department desperately needs more officers to keep both citizens and police safe. The agency is operating under a U.S. Justice Department reform agreement after officers were involved in 20 fatal shootings between 2009 and 2012, a rate comparable to much larger cities.

Violent crime rose 14% in 2014, and Albuquerque’s rate is above the average of similarly sized cities. While its 2014 murder rate—5.4 per 100,000 residents—was still well below that of cities like Baltimore, which had 34 per 100,000 residents, it has been creeping up.

At the news conference last week, Mayor Berry, a Republican, said state lawmakers who had failed to pass tough-on-crime laws were at fault, and vowed to put renewed pressure on legislators who opposed them. Others said years of inaction by city leaders, including Mr. Berry, were to blame. Dan Klein, a former, veteran Albuquerque police sergeant, said the mayor’s administration had dragged its feet in addressing long-standing police concerns about low pay and understaffing.

Shaun Willoughby, the union’s vice president, said the lack of manpower had gutted community policing efforts and left officers scrambling to keep up with calls. “The morale has been bad in the police department in this city for years, and it continues to get worse and worse,” he said. “This is a wake-up call for the city of Albuquerque.” (for full story read http://tinyurl.com/p5ysc7b.)

Add to this witches brew the apparent federally sanctioned disrespect toward police officers, and the crime wave spirals out of control. Is there an end in sight?

I don’t see it. I don’t think we have hit bottom yet. Someday, hopefully soon, people will stand tall for America and beat down the pro-crime movement.

We are bigger and better than this.