This is an extremely important and timely post. I was a prosecutor for over 20 years and not once did I encounter police abusiveness anything like this. A more searching inquiry must be undertaken of how and under what circumstances each of these five got on the force. The five were 100% black. If they were representative of the City, about 65%, or only three of them, rounding off, would have been black. Why the imbalance?
Trying to make police forces more black has been going on for years. Equity and inclusion, dontcha know. Because on average blacks lag behind the educational attainments of whites, there is a natural push to lower standards to serve the equity and inclusion agenda.
What do you get when you lower standards? You get cops who shouldn't be cops. And that's what we saw in this murder. Did the lowering of standards directly result in these hires? We don't know yet, which is why that question needs to be investigated thoroughly and honestly (a prospect about which I'm not optimistic; I think a CYA "investigation" is much more likely).
If it turns out that this travesty is the product of hiring unqualified applicants for DEI reasons, that will be a bold, if grotesque, lesson in why excellence counts and inclusion doesn't (or shouldn't). But I fear I'll be 200 years old before I see the MSM let any such lesson see the light of day.
Lack of impulse control by the officers charged was on full display. I would like to know much more about the background of the officers charged regardless of the program under which they were hired. I would assume that for the entire population there is at best a weak, and probably no, correlation between economic class and impulse control and a robust one between educational attainment and impulse control. Now do the regression relative to culture factoring in zip code taking note of honor-based cultures in particular: cf. “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb and “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell.
The most remarkable part is that you see this frequently on display even in the most rigid activities: Watch a typical NFL game these days and you are likely to see egregious, self-destructive behavior being penalized. A perfect example was the personal foul by Cincinnati’s #58 that set up the winning field goal by Kansas City in last night’s AFC Championship game. An utterly egregious personal foul. After the call and field goal the camera turned to #58 alone on the bench with head down, no doubt asking himself: “Why did I do that?”
Zora Neal Hurston is being quoted on the Left in connection to the Nichols case: “All skinfolks ain’t kinfolks”. With reference to the incorrigible—and opportunistic—race hustlers, that cuts both ways.
Why can’t our elected Republican “leaders” articulate these truths in a way that ordinary folks can understand. The inability of the center-right to convey such common sense ideas to the voters is one of my perennial frustrations.
This is an extremely important and timely post. I was a prosecutor for over 20 years and not once did I encounter police abusiveness anything like this. A more searching inquiry must be undertaken of how and under what circumstances each of these five got on the force. The five were 100% black. If they were representative of the City, about 65%, or only three of them, rounding off, would have been black. Why the imbalance?
Trying to make police forces more black has been going on for years. Equity and inclusion, dontcha know. Because on average blacks lag behind the educational attainments of whites, there is a natural push to lower standards to serve the equity and inclusion agenda.
What do you get when you lower standards? You get cops who shouldn't be cops. And that's what we saw in this murder. Did the lowering of standards directly result in these hires? We don't know yet, which is why that question needs to be investigated thoroughly and honestly (a prospect about which I'm not optimistic; I think a CYA "investigation" is much more likely).
If it turns out that this travesty is the product of hiring unqualified applicants for DEI reasons, that will be a bold, if grotesque, lesson in why excellence counts and inclusion doesn't (or shouldn't). But I fear I'll be 200 years old before I see the MSM let any such lesson see the light of day.
Lack of impulse control by the officers charged was on full display. I would like to know much more about the background of the officers charged regardless of the program under which they were hired. I would assume that for the entire population there is at best a weak, and probably no, correlation between economic class and impulse control and a robust one between educational attainment and impulse control. Now do the regression relative to culture factoring in zip code taking note of honor-based cultures in particular: cf. “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb and “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell.
The most remarkable part is that you see this frequently on display even in the most rigid activities: Watch a typical NFL game these days and you are likely to see egregious, self-destructive behavior being penalized. A perfect example was the personal foul by Cincinnati’s #58 that set up the winning field goal by Kansas City in last night’s AFC Championship game. An utterly egregious personal foul. After the call and field goal the camera turned to #58 alone on the bench with head down, no doubt asking himself: “Why did I do that?”
Zora Neal Hurston is being quoted on the Left in connection to the Nichols case: “All skinfolks ain’t kinfolks”. With reference to the incorrigible—and opportunistic—race hustlers, that cuts both ways.
Why can’t our elected Republican “leaders” articulate these truths in a way that ordinary folks can understand. The inability of the center-right to convey such common sense ideas to the voters is one of my perennial frustrations.
What's the incentive for them to speak up on this at all. After all, they're already elected.
I guess I’m not as cynical as you.
You asked the question. To ask is to answer. What do your eyes tell you?
That you are not worth my further attention.
Well...bye.
Great insights. Jim Dueholm