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One gets the feeling that MSM outlets and writers would like to tell the truth, and they hint around at the truth as much as they can, but the consequences of breaking the taboos are just too much to bear.

Time:

A Surge in Cop Killings

Despite a recent small uptick in violent crime, most Americans are still by and large safer than they were in the crack-fueled early 1990s. The one notable exception is the people whose job it is to combat crime on a daily basis - the nation’s police officers, who are being targeted and killed in greater numbers than at any time in recent years.

“There just seems to be that there’s a greater willingness on the part of these bad guys to take out a police officer,” Miami Police Chief John Timoney told TIME. “I see that locally here. Then you look at it nationally, there’s [also] been a huge increase.”

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Not only are officer shootings up, but the number of multiple deaths is also on the rise this year, says memorial fund president Craig Floyd. In the first nine months of 2007 there were six cases of more than one officer gunned down during the same shooting spree, up from just one in all of last year.

“You have to come to the conclusion that some of these heinous criminals just don’t care,” Floyd says. “Earlier in our history there was a code of some sense of respect, even among the most heinous criminals, that you would never harm a police officer, certainly never kill a police officer.”

That’s because “the most heinous criminals” earlier in our history, while they had no problem banging each other and others directly involved in their line of work, knew that there would be very serious consequences if they harmed innocent victims, and they certainly feared cops, because cops did (and were able to) make them fearful.

South Florida, along with the rest of the Southern U.S., where guns are easier to come by, has been particularly hard hit.

If by “Southern U.S.” the writer means both southeast and southwest, then s/he is essentially referring to black and Hispanic crime, in spite of his or her snark about guns.

“I don’t understand exactly why in 2007 we have found ourselves in a position where we’ve had this many police officers shot and killed,” says Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens, who also serves as president of the Major Cities Police Chiefs.

Is it that you “don’t understand,” or you don’t want to understand, or you actually do understand, but saying so openly would get you in trouble with Our Cultural Taliban and the PC Politburo?

Other experts and activists cite the desensitizing effect of popular culture, most notably violent video games, as a key reason that more young people have no compunction about opening fire on a man or woman in uniform.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of On Combat and On Killing, who trains the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, subscribes to that controversial notion. Grossman relates how officers raiding methamphetamine labs and gang hangouts often find violent video games left behind. “Every time they take down a gang house, there’s always one thing that will always be there,” Grossman says. “It’s a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative. And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators.”

I have played a few of those games in my life — Admittedly, not very often, and it has been quite a long time since I have, and it’s highly unlikely I ever will again, but even then, there was absolutely nothing in me that wanted to translate this digital scenario into reality. The issue here is not the games themselves, but the kind of people that play them and allow themselves to let the games condition their mindset.

One way to counter the criminals, of course, is to match their firepower. But Fred Shenkman, professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Florida, thinks a better idea would be for police to focus more on training and improving their accuracy, since they miss their intended target some 70% to 90% of the time they fire in the line of duty.

Fine as far as it goes, but as we can see from the American occupations of both Iraq and Afghanistan, you can have all the best equipment in the world, but without the will, you might as well have nothing more than a loincloth and a rock. Similarly, domestic law enforcement officers are being knocked off with increasing frequency because the same institution which refuses to win the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan has made it illegal for the cops to do their jobs on American streets in an effective manner.

Now it’s time to smash through the taboos.

The issue is race. Black gangs are becoming more audacious because, with each passing decade, and as the hands of time take us further away from the segregationist system (and the underlying permission of governments to make policy based on racial differences), blacks lose their fear of white cops and white authorities. And they’re up against white cops who themselves have been hamstrung by the same governmental action that toppled the segregationist system to begin with. And in the same time period, the Hispanic population in America has exploded, and, as is plainly obvious for anyone with half a brain that studies Latin America, drug gangs rival legitimate governments, if not surpass them and control and corrupt them, and are starting to do the same here, though a “Jose Crow” system would not work to make Hispanics behave, simply because they’re on average smarter, meaner, less superstitious, more clever and more mentally tough than blacks.

And, should there be no drastic changes in the American political system, (those drastic changes being serious reforms or outright repeal of certain civil rights laws, giving white cops free reign with their big, heavy black batons vis-a-vis the thick skulls of certain miscreants, and that 100,000-volt electrically-charged southern border fence to keep those certain other people out of our business, repudiating the Monroe Doctrine to keep us out of their business, and transplanting most of the American Hispanic population to the southern side of said fence), cop killings are only going to get worse. The rising Hispanic population in the American Southwest is enough of an explanation there, and an increasingly fearless black population in the South and elsewhere will explain it in those places.

In fact, this blogmeister has predicted that black extremist organizations, perhaps in concert with black drug gangs, and perhaps with the financing of Arab oil money, will coalesce to train black snipers to gun down white cops as if they were bowling pins. The drug gangs would want white cops out of the way to eliminate a job hazard, and to create an urban power vacuum which would be filled by themselves, and the Arabs would benefit by destabilizing the USA, such that its domestic anarchy thereof would distract governmental resources away from the American military occupation of the Arab world. (If you think my Arab theory is crazy, remember that the Libyan government, back in the days when its relations with the American government were hostile, financed Islamic proselytization efforts in American prisons to convert American blacks.)