In a speech Friday at the University of Chicago, FBI Director James Comey made headlines by advancing the “Ferguson effect” as a real and self-evident phenomenon, claiming that increased public scrutiny of police abuse was leading to a “surge” in violent crime.
Comey’s argument is that after the anti-police backlash caused by the Ferguson killing, and other police killi
gs getting much more publicity in the US than they previously had (which he blamed on YouTube), the police are just laying back and not fighting crime so hard, especially in black neighborhoods, because they don’t want to be the next to come under scrutiny for abuse.
While Comey later insisted it was “just common sense,” he later admitted that he doesn’t have any real evidence that any such thing is happening, and that he just personally figured it would make sense if it did happen. The White House quickly distanced themselves from the claims.
Ironically, the few cities cited as seeing increased murder rates appear totally disconnected from the narrative, with only Cleveland having any high-profile cases, and the police there loudly championing their killing of a 12-year-old with a toy gun and going so far as to demand public apologies of some of their higher-profile critics. The notion that Cleveland of all cities, where police leadership seems to be taking killing pre-teens as a badge of honor would be one of the few where police actually starting doing less crime-fighting seems far from the “common sense” Comey believes.
I stopped by my Mom's, and saw video of him saying this is playing 24/7 on a short cycle on FOX. It is "fact" now.
Stuff it Mister, if those cops are refusing to do their jobs fire the SOB’s.
The over riding concern is for the prople who now have evidence of what has always been a problem, no oversight by those we pay for and expected of our elected and well paid bureaucrats. And where they only had to verbal deny mis conduct in the past we now have evidence pointing to their long standing abuses.
Our police have become an even greater problem than he criminal elements in almost every city and metro areain states.
Our alert and now empowered by physical evidence by audio visual means of that long term abuse are taking Justice damned seriously today
.They the citizens now offer not just personal protection but they provide a much
needed service for the population at large.
Sorry but a cops life is of no more worth than any citizen in america and when they can no longer kill and physicly abuse the populace then let them either fight crime or get the f out, and go join ISIL, they are more their type.
Lets not forget the damned heavy retirement funds and early out along with double dipping by military and even after retirment asspecial officers at eventsband construction and education sites. WE are talking retirement fornsome in LA and NY at over 10,000 UDS a month plus medical and low interest loans.
It is long past time to stop cops from killing americans at a rate higher than our military losses of overseas combat is.
Every Cop is a Criminal
all the sinners, Saints!
—Jagger/Richards
That’s just the characteristic one looks for in an FBI director: one that follows “common sense” over evidence. Explains so much.
technically he is right, the closer one watches the police the more crime one finds.
"police leadership seems to be taking the killing pre-teens as a badge of honor"
In a nut shell sir, for when the upper half of society hoards all the wealth, surely police are nothing more then protectors of stolen goods, with a terrorized into submission lower half being the name of the game.
So, a simple solution would be a law that caused a forth of the wealth to trickle down to the laboring-class lower half. Such a boost in the economy that would be, anyway lets try it for four years and see what happens.