Kathy D,
Let's look at cities where "stop and frisk" and the most stringent gun laws in the Country.
1) Chicago - 1796 violent crimes - 1123 murders - Mayor Rohm Emanuel
2) New York City - Mayor Bill De Blaiso - crime has increased 40% under his tenure - very stringent gun laws
3) Washington D.C. - Murders up 43% - Democratic Mayo - very stringent gun laws
The Obama Administration has pushed for lesser charges for drug charges. Obama is applauded for this decision. How many drug busts are pleaded down because of drug charges? How many pleas not only involve drugs but also fire arm charges? These are the statistics that most of our citizens have information of fire arms charges or multiple incarcerations.
It is very coincidental that Obama calls FBI Director James Comey to the White House in the middle of a Criminal Investigation of Hillary Clinton. How sure are you that Obama is not discussing Hillary's emails.
Obama came out last week saying, "I do not feel Hillary did anything to put our National Security at risk." This statement is irresponsible by Obama since he does not have the facts the FBI have uncovered. Obama again speaks out before all facts have been presented. Obama has made this practice his Standard Operating Procedure."
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
GOD BLESS OUR FIRST RESPONDERS
Let's look at cities where "stop and frisk" and the most stringent gun laws in the Country.
1) Chicago - 1796 violent crimes - 1123 murders - Mayor Rohm Emanuel
2) New York City - Mayor Bill De Blaiso - crime has increased 40% under his tenure - very stringent gun laws
3) Washington D.C. - Murders up 43% - Democratic Mayo - very stringent gun laws
The Obama Administration has pushed for lesser charges for drug charges. Obama is applauded for this decision. How many drug busts are pleaded down because of drug charges? How many pleas not only involve drugs but also fire arm charges? These are the statistics that most of our citizens have information of fire arms charges or multiple incarcerations.
It is very coincidental that Obama calls FBI Director James Comey to the White House in the middle of a Criminal Investigation of Hillary Clinton. How sure are you that Obama is not discussing Hillary's emails.
Obama came out last week saying, "I do not feel Hillary did anything to put our National Security at risk." This statement is irresponsible by Obama since he does not have the facts the FBI have uncovered. Obama again speaks out before all facts have been presented. Obama has made this practice his Standard Operating Procedure."
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
GOD BLESS OUR FIRST RESPONDERS
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What Comey's overreach does bring to mind is that it is long past time our nation divest itself of the antiquated and regressive elected law enforcement position of 'sheriff.' It is a vestigial and a harmful - often economically redundant one.
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The reputationd of FBI Directors rise or fall due to how they handle the prime attention-getters. L. Patrick Gray was marred by the Nixon involvement in Watergate, Eric Holder is forever stained by his abject refusals to punish anyone involved in the IRS, gunwalking, or New Black Panter events, and now comes Comey.
Whether Comey faces up to what seems to be a slam-dunk with the evidence against Hillary Clinton will be the words following his name in the history written about this century.
Whether Comey faces up to what seems to be a slam-dunk with the evidence against Hillary Clinton will be the words following his name in the history written about this century.
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Mr. Comey's regressive statements are not simply about an FBI Director weighing in to debates on law enforcement and justice issues. It is much more than that.
To suggest, as James Comey did, that public outrage over illegal behavior by police officers have made police officers reluctant about doing their job and resulted in increase crime reveals an agenda that is inconsistent with professional law enforcement and the U.S. Constitution. Cell phone video recordings and other corroborating evidence clearly establish that the crime of police brutally is a nationwide problem.
After a 20 year career as a federal prosecutor I know this to be true: Comey's statements damage efforts to further professional law enforcement practices, efforts to weed out illegal police behavior and damage the credibility of our criminal justice system. The FBI Director controls the mission and culture of that agency. Mr. Comey's statements informs and guides his top managers, the supervisors under them, the special agents and even the support staff on what is important and what is not important. His beliefs and priorities become their beliefs and priorities. After all, most people want to please the boss and the employees within the FBI are no different.
In short, Mr. Comey's statements are inconsistent with professional law enforcement practices, state and federal statutes and the U.S. Constitution. He should resign.
To suggest, as James Comey did, that public outrage over illegal behavior by police officers have made police officers reluctant about doing their job and resulted in increase crime reveals an agenda that is inconsistent with professional law enforcement and the U.S. Constitution. Cell phone video recordings and other corroborating evidence clearly establish that the crime of police brutally is a nationwide problem.
After a 20 year career as a federal prosecutor I know this to be true: Comey's statements damage efforts to further professional law enforcement practices, efforts to weed out illegal police behavior and damage the credibility of our criminal justice system. The FBI Director controls the mission and culture of that agency. Mr. Comey's statements informs and guides his top managers, the supervisors under them, the special agents and even the support staff on what is important and what is not important. His beliefs and priorities become their beliefs and priorities. After all, most people want to please the boss and the employees within the FBI are no different.
In short, Mr. Comey's statements are inconsistent with professional law enforcement practices, state and federal statutes and the U.S. Constitution. He should resign.
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MLB,
Obama and the Mainstream Media want to protect Hillary Clinton's run for President. What is the real reason Obama called FBI Director James Comey to the White House? What is Obama hoping to glean from this meeting with Director James Comey? There are a small percentage of Police Officers who are racists. This does not warrant open season on shooting Police Officers. I agree there should be some changes in the system.
Let's look at cities that have done away with "Stop and Frisk." How are the statistics on Violent Crimes with New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago? There has been more stringent gun laws in the cities mentioned. Also, look at what has happened since "Stop and Frisk" was discontinued.
Where do you stand on Eric Holder's lie concerning Fast and Furious? He changed his testimony twice. Which statement is true and which is a lie?
Where do you stand on the lies by President Obama. President Obama on Obamacare, "If you like your plan you can keep your plan. If you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor. If you sign up for a Family Plan you will save $ 2,500."
When we have (so called) Leaders like Obama, Rohm Emanuel, and Bill De Blasio what are citizens to glean from these people? I have directly mentioned these three individuals because they have thrown all Policemen and Policewoman under the Bus? We need Community Leaders and Police to com e together to work out a mutually beneficial situation to keep citizens safe
Obama and the Mainstream Media want to protect Hillary Clinton's run for President. What is the real reason Obama called FBI Director James Comey to the White House? What is Obama hoping to glean from this meeting with Director James Comey? There are a small percentage of Police Officers who are racists. This does not warrant open season on shooting Police Officers. I agree there should be some changes in the system.
Let's look at cities that have done away with "Stop and Frisk." How are the statistics on Violent Crimes with New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago? There has been more stringent gun laws in the cities mentioned. Also, look at what has happened since "Stop and Frisk" was discontinued.
Where do you stand on Eric Holder's lie concerning Fast and Furious? He changed his testimony twice. Which statement is true and which is a lie?
Where do you stand on the lies by President Obama. President Obama on Obamacare, "If you like your plan you can keep your plan. If you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor. If you sign up for a Family Plan you will save $ 2,500."
When we have (so called) Leaders like Obama, Rohm Emanuel, and Bill De Blasio what are citizens to glean from these people? I have directly mentioned these three individuals because they have thrown all Policemen and Policewoman under the Bus? We need Community Leaders and Police to com e together to work out a mutually beneficial situation to keep citizens safe
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I continue to wonder why we even have such a national police force. We have city police, county police and state police; those I can see. Our national police forces strike me as a bunch of bureaucrats in search of a mission, always looking for some sort of crisis that they can manipulate. For awhile there it was kidnappings, then it was organized crime, then it was serial killers. We simply don't needed this redundant bureaucracy and its agents. What is especially odd to me is how all of the small government advocates and the criers of "Freedom!" never look to downsize security forces.
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You simply cannot make such bold claims without data to support your stance. Even if there was proof about the increase in crime, there is multiple reasons for that.
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We do not need an ideologue or political FBI Director. In fact it's the last thing a free nation needs.
J. Edgar Hoover was a blackmailer, paranoid, and flawed man who deformed this nation's political history in the 20th Century, perhaps irredeemably if theories that he sat on information regarding a potential plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy in Texas rather than share it with the Secret Service or the President. There is no question that J. Edgar Hoover was a politically outspoken, and evil manipulator of public opinion.
We do not need another J. Edgar Hoover.
There is an epidemic of guns in this nation. There is an epidemic of heroin. There is a resurgence of international organized crime that has resulted in major international banks such as HSBC saying 'whoops sorry,' and agreeing to pay $1.9 Billion in fines for money laundering to terrorist. This is where the FBI should be, and should have been paying attention. Not lobbying for police fraternal organization and unions on behalf of unaccountability for civilian deaths or misuse of force.
The personalities drawn to security work and law enforcement have a proven tendency toward authority and right wing paranoid psychological constructs. The last thing a free democratic society needs is to confer political power to its army or police - that is the definition of a police state. Comey should shut up or stand down.
No more J. Edgar Hoover. Not ever.
J. Edgar Hoover was a blackmailer, paranoid, and flawed man who deformed this nation's political history in the 20th Century, perhaps irredeemably if theories that he sat on information regarding a potential plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy in Texas rather than share it with the Secret Service or the President. There is no question that J. Edgar Hoover was a politically outspoken, and evil manipulator of public opinion.
We do not need another J. Edgar Hoover.
There is an epidemic of guns in this nation. There is an epidemic of heroin. There is a resurgence of international organized crime that has resulted in major international banks such as HSBC saying 'whoops sorry,' and agreeing to pay $1.9 Billion in fines for money laundering to terrorist. This is where the FBI should be, and should have been paying attention. Not lobbying for police fraternal organization and unions on behalf of unaccountability for civilian deaths or misuse of force.
The personalities drawn to security work and law enforcement have a proven tendency toward authority and right wing paranoid psychological constructs. The last thing a free democratic society needs is to confer political power to its army or police - that is the definition of a police state. Comey should shut up or stand down.
No more J. Edgar Hoover. Not ever.
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Contrast this article to the one appearing in the Wall Street Journal. Comey clearly states that the victims of the recent crime wave are black males.
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"James B. Comey, UNLIKE other FBI directors, takes on controversial issues...."? Is it the job of the FBI director to have his own personal agenda? Is it acceptable for the FBI director to diverge from the policy goals set forth by the administration that appointed him to his position and to whom he reports? I say NO, it is NOT acceptable. Of course, unlike Hoover who worked in secrecy like some sinister demon, at least Comey is more transparent in expressing his thinking. Still, I do not believe that ANY law enforcement official should make public pronouncements like he did that go against those of the administration that he is part of and that he SERVES. He is not an elected official who is charged with setting policy. He is APPOINTED and charged to carry out the law and policy as set by others. I refute his claim that by scrutinizing the police crime is on an upward swing. He strikes me as a HACK COP who cries foul the moment an indiscretion is caught on camera. Unfortunately he seems unable to recognize that the recent events recorded on video represent very egregious conduct that would otherwise have gone unpunished. Typical hack cop.
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Mr Comey has repeatedly shown himself to want a police state with unlimited spying on citizens without warrant or probable cause. The facts or the law seem not to matter in light of his priorities. Even after John Roberts said get a warrant on cell phones he is unrepentant.
Not only should he be fired, he should have never been appointed.
Not only should he be fired, he should have never been appointed.
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When Comey startled a Brookings crowd during his justly bombed cell-privacy-breach inducement, he called out 14 times (!), that "these bad guys" are reason enough, albeit unidentified sofar by the FBI director, to insists on rampant privacy violations of cellphone data. Simply Disney-talk that backfired. Apart of that, let us remember when Comey took the reins as NYSUS attorney from Clinton's MaryJo White, he focused his introductory speech at the Waldorf to identify main future goals as going after "Child molesters/trafickers", not Wall Street, not Bernard Kerik, not Corruption or (Healthcare) Fraud. It did not happen. And now, he cries "FIRE" in a crowded theater, when he should have been schooled, been trained and religiously firm that Thomas Jefferson gave a clear hint on "current enforcement fears": "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
Lets stick to some presidential OLD TRUTH, and deal with it honestly, not violative of axiomatic history while taking the last veneer of the United States' belief in the Rule of Law .
Lets stick to some presidential OLD TRUTH, and deal with it honestly, not violative of axiomatic history while taking the last veneer of the United States' belief in the Rule of Law .
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I thought Mr. Comey's recent comment that the intense focus on police brutality may have made police officers less aggressive and led to an increase in crime was a criticism of today's police officers who seem unable or unwilling to adjust their violent, impulsive tactics to be better peace officers and servants of all members of the community. His comments speak to the need for a better brand of cop. It also suggests that police officers need to undergo stringent, frequent, unannounced drug-tests to make sure that they are not patrolling our streets jacked-up on steroids or other such substances, controlled or otherwise, that lead to the kind of behavior that guns down a child in the blink of an eye or chokes to death a man selling loose cigarettes or shoots dead a fleeing suspect in the back.
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Heh...
I wonder if you would lose your job because someone outside your chain of command is criticizing the way you do your job, if you would have more passion for your job, especially if what the person would want you to do would put your life in jeopardy?
Walk a mile in their shoes, buddy...
I wonder if you would lose your job because someone outside your chain of command is criticizing the way you do your job, if you would have more passion for your job, especially if what the person would want you to do would put your life in jeopardy?
Walk a mile in their shoes, buddy...
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Heh...
I wonder if you would lose your job because someone outside your chain of command is criticizing the way you do your job, if you would have more passion for your job, especially if what the person would want you to do would put your life in jeopardy?
Walk a mile in their shoes, buddy...
I wonder if you would lose your job because someone outside your chain of command is criticizing the way you do your job, if you would have more passion for your job, especially if what the person would want you to do would put your life in jeopardy?
Walk a mile in their shoes, buddy...
Mr. Comey's conclusions about the causes of crime are the products of simplistic wishful thinking and his need to defend his own past actions. He is out of line to make these statements without any data to support them.
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Homicide rates in African - American neighborhoods have spiked. This depressing trend has been noted by many including Obama's former chief of staff and current mayor of Chicago as well as the mayor of Washington, D.C. who hosted a conference on this recent phenomenon. Is it due to a " retreat " by the police out of fear of career endangerment or due to other reasons? Whatever the reason it should be debated and not hidden under a veneer of Political Correctness. We are not doing the African - American residents of these crime ridden neighborhoods any favors by pretending the problem doesn't exist. They are the victims and potential victims of the increased violence.
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The FBI will get my attention when it does something about the unsolved serial killing of 11 women in the summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, something other than gathering up all the evidence and ignoring the pleas of 11 families and an entire distressed city.
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But, fear mongering, race baiting and red baiting have always been so much easier for the FBI to get by on. When it did get in the business of 'gang busting' in the 1930s - it consisted essentially of becoming a death squad armed with machine guns and murdering bank robbers in the square states for grisly photo ops for which the arranged to fly J. Edgar to the scene.
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The focus on police brutality isn't the problem. Police brutality is the problem.
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I think Comey has injected much needed commentary into the recent discussion about police behavior, and doing so at the University of Chicago may not have been accidental, as it is the birthplace of the intersection of law and economics. Regardless of what one thinks of abuses related to "stop&frisk", economic theory dictates that there would an increase in crime with the end of such practices because criminals would calculate that the probability of being stopped would be reduced. While it is too soon to say definitively this has occurred because there is only 1-2 years of new data, the trend of increased crime supports the theory. The politicians and the public must soon decide whether the benefits in reduced policing outweigh the increase in crime.
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James Comey is discovering that just as truth and principles were unwanted in the Bush Administration (nobody wanted to hear that this great new wiretapping program is illegal) they are unwelcome in the Obama administration as well. Police unions do not want to be told to reform, Republicans want to bludgeon the Administration, professional activists want to bludgeon the police, and the President needs one more legislative feather in his cap for the library before he leaves. There are no friends inside the Beltway; only interests.
Comey is probably the only person in Washington who actually remembers that criminal justice should be about saving lives instead advancing political careers. Urban homicides are up 20% this year so far across three dozen major cities. That fact should bring about pause, but instead it only seems to bring about denial from just about everybody.
If a President publicly ignored the strategic advice of all his military policy makers when making war decisions he would be pilloried. So why is Obama applauded for ignoring the law enforcement advice provided by his top law enforcement expert?
Comey is probably the only person in Washington who actually remembers that criminal justice should be about saving lives instead advancing political careers. Urban homicides are up 20% this year so far across three dozen major cities. That fact should bring about pause, but instead it only seems to bring about denial from just about everybody.
If a President publicly ignored the strategic advice of all his military policy makers when making war decisions he would be pilloried. So why is Obama applauded for ignoring the law enforcement advice provided by his top law enforcement expert?
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Best reply on this site in a while. Well said!!
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Comey should have a clear strategy on what he intends to accomplish by his views and be transparent in what he wants to accomplish. Being defensive about "mass incarceration" isn't very helpful
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It is a fallacy that crime rates went down because more people were sent to prison. Crime rates fell before the prison population began to grow, as documented in Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent Atlantic article.
But changing the way we address crime as a nation is going to be hard work. Too many misinformed, strong opinions and too much emotion surrounds any attempt to set a different course. Not to mention the profits being made and jobs created by the prison-industrial complex!