Support Good Cops- Not Bad Policy

Remember when Americans thought cops were on their side? Most still do, but many worry that statists will turn our police forces against us.

That's why my motto as a police supporter is:

" I support good cops- not bad policy! "

I hate hearing about line of duty fatalities, including suicide; injury or the living death of political witch hunts destroying careers and families they supported.

Unlike liberal Blacks who hate cops and love cons, I support good cops and seek to protect them from bad policy and engineered mis-perceptions in communities like mine.

While community relations in Black zip codes were more problematic, my grand parents and parents generations are pro-police, while also being anti-Jim Crow policing.

If they as survivors of American Apartheid didn't blindly hate police, why should my or successive generations?

Statism is a real problem, especially law enforcement in statist clutches ( left or right ). A liberal police state isn't an upgrade over a conservative one and visa versa.

I foresee growing law enforcement complaints coming from American Whites whose positive relationship with police ends as Obama police statism tightens.

Hotly debated gun bans and feared confiscation promises to be a flash point where copious complaints will flow.

To be fair, George H. Bush instituted a statist policing regime the likes of which many Americans had never seen.

His Patriot Act ( s ) allowed federal agents to write their own search warrants without judicial review and enshrined unrestricted surveillance of electronic communications on a par with the dreaded East German Stasi.

I'd joke that such eaves dropping always happened but putting in law meant Americans were really about be placed beneath a microscope.

His being a Republican didn't escape liberty lovers attention while this ordeal unfolded. Most galling to old school security conservatives like me is declaring passengers de facto inmates once arriving at airports.

This presumption of guilt, clumsily administered by his Transportation Security Administration ( TSA ), subjects every American to an Eastern Bloc experience few ever imagined possible.

Black folks are used to this over reach. Our history with American police began with slave catchers, private and otherwise, dogging our steps as captive Africans and Americans.

Now, our White sisters and brothers share this experience,as well, and it's no less appalling to me now that N-Word treatment has become integrated.

Statist policing is bias on gamma rays, with executives and officers so afflicted seeing themselves as institutional hulks who can smash and trample civil liberties during endless state-sanctioned rampages.

I support good cops- not bad policy.

Let's elect folks who feel the same way. The public and police; local, state and federal, should be on the same side.

Cap Black, The Hood Conservative

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Comment by Carol Williams on February 10, 2013 at 1:24am: I'm sending this to my local Sheriff! Thanks, Cap, for your ever-cogent wisdom.

Comment by Charles Kienast on February 8, 2013 at 2:25pm: What a great commentary!!!! I support fully what the author is saying and hope that others will do the same!! Charles R. Kienast

Comment by Cracker on February 8, 2013 at 9:35am: Good cops may turn on innocent folks when directed to. The lawless federal government needs to be removed from power. Unfortunately, one needs to make a serious decision when S**T hits the fan! Do I take out the cop / DHS / Military guys following UNLAWFUL orders, or do I fight for what the constitution (law) stands for? I'll fight! Obviously, if the good cops are smart they will see through the trickery in place to use them as pawns in the sights of law abiding AMERICAN's. Practice, practice, practice! OP

Comment by Lizzie on February 8, 2013 at 9:27am: God Bless the Oath Keepers.

And yes, the Patriot Act was a horrible thing to do to America.

The government used to let us pretend we were holding the reins once in awhile (at least, some of us felt that way?). Now the Feds have grabbed the bit in their teeth and taken off at a gallop, we find we don't have the reins, or our feet in the stirrups. All we can do is hang on, and wonder where we're going.

And this is what safety feels like?

Comment by Gail Cohen on February 8, 2013 at 9:22am: Well I think that cop killed people - so they should hunt him down - but no one should be hunted for a political opinion..but yes it is starting to look like that is possible

Comment by Paul Szemanczky on February 8, 2013 at 9:17am: Maybe cops will become the 'statist pigs' of the 21st Century -if thousands can hunt down one of their own in Big Bear, CA, then why wouldn't a hundred search for you and your TP membership? We've made it easy for them to find us. All that's missing is 'the order' to get us!

Comment by Chaplain Thomas Gilbert Cole on February 8, 2013 at 9:12am: SHERIFF BRIGADES SUPPORT GOD LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Comment by Tom Minton on February 8, 2013 at 8:38am: Agreed, encroachments on the liberty of any of us are an encroachment on all of us, and damn well too much coming from both sides......

Comment by Gail Cohen on February 8, 2013 at 8:20am: Only the state can use coercion to enforce its policies - and abuse by the state should not be tolerated - all people should be treated equally. Unfortunately our elected leaders are getting drunk with power and see themselves as "rulers" in a kind of feudalistic Marxism.