The Case For Disarming The Police
Police brutality and violence against the defenseless population is not some thing new. But, over the past few years, the frequency and the degree of this violence has gone up drastically – the beatings and tortures have given way to outright murders and executions. It is resembling more and more like the hunting season – the duck hunting. Armed to the teeth, police seems to be enjoying killing their victims in a volley of bullets. Defenseless people are just the game!
It is sickening.
The acts of violence that the police carries out against the general public are not the consequences of the brutality of individual officers, it is embedded is in its very institution. Police brutality in the US is rooted in its history. Police, following on its ‘slave patrol’ roots, has always acted with utmost violence against the poor, working class, and minorities.
There has been only one constant in police behavior – One is guaranteed a violent response from police whatever the call may be – Albeit with one exception, police brutality against the public is on a sharp upswing since the ‘terror attack’ of 9/11 – Police has no regard even for the very old and fragile or the very young – every one is terrorized with equal ferociousness.
Now, armed to the teeth – very much like an occupation force, it feels at ease to use its enhanced firepower and kill unarmed people very much like its counterparts have been used to do in Afghanistan.
We are dealing with a highly weaponized force trained to kill. And, the increase in the murders committed by the police is directly proportional to its weaponization and militarization.
With the unavoidable coming changes on the economic and financial front, the ruling elites are expecting a complete breakdown in the established ‘social order’ – and getting ready for it. In preparation for the public uprise and the resulting turmoil in the western hemisphere, police force – all over the West, has been transformed into an occupation army. That is the reason for a sharp increase in police violence against the people – it sees the public as “enemy”, and responds accordingly.
To fulfill its role as an occupation force, police has been armed with military grade weapons – “Counterterrosim” has been the mantra to justify the militarization of police in the West. since 9/11, police departments in America have used more than $40 billion in grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to militarize in the name of counterterrorism.
Armed to the teeth, police departments across the country now carry military-grade weapons. They sport Humvees and armored personnel carriers designed for use on a battlefield, machine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, tanks, and armed drones.
Police has now metamorphosed into an occupation force – and acts like one. Its SWAT unit regularly conduct military style operations in the neighborhoods. As the “Economist” commented in , every year, there are approximately 50,000 SWAT raids in the United States, according to Professor Pete Kraska of Eastern Kentucky University’s School of Justice Studies. In other words, roughly 137 times a day a SWAT team assaults a home in US and terrorizes the surrounding community.
Various police department seems to be in competition with each other to do more killings – sort of hunting trophies to display. So far, the year 2015 seems to be producing a bumper crop.
In the month of March alone, more than 110 people, the majority of them unarmed African Americans, shot down by police in the hunting fashion – like ducks.
It seems April is going to be even more fruitful month for the police – bringing in more trophies to decorate the police display walls. Here are some of the more publicized murderous acts of the police:
Last weekend in the town of Zion, Illinois, about 30 miles north of Chicago, cops killed 17-year-old Justus Howell with two shots in the back.
Recently a disturbing video has been published of a mentally unstable, young black man being shot dead by Florida police on February 15, 2015. When 25-year-old Lavall Hall refused to get on the ground, a police officer shot him five times.
April 06: Zion, Illinois Police shot and killed a 17 year old kid – claimed he had stolen a gun. Coroner says teen was shot in back by Zion cops, died of wounds to heart, liver, spleen.
April 07: A white North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge after a video surfaced Tuesday of the lawman shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as the man ran away.
Walter L. Scott, a Coast Guard veteran and father of four, died Saturday after Patrolman 1st Class Michael T. Slager, 33, shot him in the back.
Five of the eight bullets hit Scott, his family’s attorney said. Four of those struck his back. One hit an ear.
The footage filmed by a bystander, which The Post and Courier obtained Tuesday from a source who asked to remain anonymous, shows the end of the confrontation between the two on Saturday after Scott ran from a traffic stop. It was the first piece of evidence contradicting an account Slager gave earlier this week through his attorney.
North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said during a news conference that Slager had made a “bad decision.”
“When you’re wrong, you’re wrong,” Summey said. “If you make a bad decision, don’t care if you’re behind the shield or just a citizen on the street, you have to live by that decision.”
Of course, in Mr. Keith Summey’s book, it was just a “bad decision” – Not a MURDER in cold blood.
April 10: California sheriff viciously assaulted a prone man, Francis Jared Pusok, 30, of Apple Valley. In the recorded video, a sheriff’s helicopter can be seen landing next to the man, who falls off the horse and is stunned by one of the deputies. Two deputies begin punching him in the head and kneeing him in the groin. Then, three others arrive and join in the pummeling, which lasts about two minutes.
As Glen Ford wrote, “America’s President commits drone murders of the socially dispossessed overseas much as Michael Slager gunned down Walter Scott with implied impunity in North Charleston. ”
“Cleveland cop Michael Brelo distinguished himself as the most murderous member of a mob of 104 cops on a chase-and-shoot spree in Cleveland, Ohio, back in November, 2012. Mistaking a car engine backfire for a gunshot, the crazy cop caravan careened through Cleveland at speeds reaching 100 miles an hour, cornering Timothy Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, in a school parking lot. Russell and Williams, unarmed, died in a hail of bullets – 49 of them fired by Officer Brelo, now on trial for voluntary manslaughter. Brelo and his partner fired 15 bullets through their own windshield at the Black victims’ car. Then, at a point when, according to the prosecutor, no cop’s life was in danger (except from other officers), Brelo jumped on the hood of the victims’ car and fired 15 more shots at the mortally wounded man and woman. Today, the cop says he has no recollection of the entire episode.”
In the US, police is the symbol of violence, injustice, and the rule of the ‘gun-power’. As Rob Urie pointed out, “America’s President commits drone murders of the socially dispossessed overseas much as Michael Slager gunned down Walter Scott with implied impunity in North Charleston. ”
Police, from its very beginning, has been an instrument of suppression – a ruthless force in the service of the ruling elites. It was created to use violence to intimidate and subjugate the general public, and to make them obey the Law of the ruling elites.
To justify the need for a large and militarized police force, all sort of crimes – form the drive-by-shootings, muggings, and robberies to drugs and murders are cultivated and sponsored and an atmosphere of fear and insecurity is created.
Amplifying the same point,Rob Urie posed the logical question, “The questions not being asked are why the police exist in the first place; why they are armed and if they are to be armed, why citizens don’t have the legal right to defend themselves against police violence? The ‘self-evidence’ of the need for police is premised on maintenance of a social order that has violent repression as its ‘logical’ outcome.”
To make it safe for the police, and to disempower the citizenry, guns are taken away form public – on the pretext that guns commits the crime.
Yes, they do – in the hands of police. So, take them away from police.
The only way to solve the problem of police violence and brutality is to demilitarize them and disarm the police. The job of police is to act as mediators to help resolve the disputes and to perform the detective work to solve the crimes – which in are not very many in a civilized and fully armed citizenry.
Yes, crimes disappear when each and every member of the society bears the arms – A couple of the cities in the US that have mandated the residents to bear arms showcase this fact – the crime rate in those cities is ZERO.
The police, in case of need of gun power, will call the citizenry and deputize them for the task. A police force, comprised of intelligent and compassionate officers, will thus serve the community.
There is no other way.
Our overlords are obviously and intentionally destroying, weakening, and dividing the economy and the USA by punishing hard work with regulations and taxes and rewarding laziness with welfare while promoting illegal immigration, free trade, feminism, homosexuality, moral decay, drugs, wars, the minimum wage, political correctness, debt, gun control, and the nanny police state.
Once the country is destroyed and the poor become too much of a burden on the rich, the elites will soon say Capitalism failed to justify turning the US into a hardcore Communist state. Americans will then be sent to concentration camps and starved and killed so the 1% can divide the wealth and land among themselves.
Wake up. How else can you explain why the government is doing the opposite of every logical action to help the economy? Economics isn’t rocket science. If you want to boost the economy and nation, don’t allow millions of cheap illegal immigrants to flood the country, offshore jobs to 3rd world countries, punish hard work with taxes and regulations, and reward laziness with welfare.
Sadly Americans won’t realize what is happening until it is too late.
Never underestimate the inhumanity of man towards man. Greed has no bounds.
American way
How did it start?
Thousands of creeps
Killed in the park
American way
Try and explain
Scab of a nation
Driven insane
Don’t cry
Gotta go bye bye
Suddenly: die die
Cop kill a creep!
Pow pow pow
American way
Threatened by us
Drag a few creeps
Away in a bus
American way
Prisoner: lock
Smash every creep
In the face with a rock
When the police are the only people who have guns, that is when we will find out that only criminals have guns.
“Drugs” is a 150 Billion $$ operation in the US. B-billion. The top federal and state cops claim this is why they need more bigger pensions, and more rights. (Actually different agencies claim slightly different amounts.)
There is only ONE institution in the US with the infrastructure, with the “boots on the ground” that has the discipline and the ability, that has the physical trunk space in their cars, to run illicit drugs in the US at this level. When they throw punk kids, with loose shoes and lost souls and strange tattoos, into the prison complex, they are merely protecting their monopoly. They also have an immediate power of confiscation of any nice looking car, or any piece of real estate. All they need is their “dime bag.” They put a dime in the bag, peppered with dust of some unknown powder, so that when they throw it, it will travel the few feet or so they need, to claim “… voila … my brother in law will be buying this nice new car or house at a ‘public’ policeman’s auction, that no one else ever attends, tomorrow at 3AM.”
We need to go back to a time when police actually protected and served the public. Sadly today the police force is a recruitment ground for the worst dregs of society. Socio and pychopaths, personality disorders and dysfunctionals -cowards that hide behind a gun and a badge and serve only the ruling elites and their tyranny. The US is no longer the bastion of freedom and liberty it purports to be. Rather it is a shameful sprawling out of control vassal of British Colonialism ruled by secrecy, secret societies and services that are hellbent on destroying the constitution and perpetuating wars. It is a nation that has turned its back on God and become an abomination unto Him. Like Jefferson said the greatest reason for a citizen to bear arms is to protect ourselves from tyranny in power. That day has come. Lord knows we need a peoples revolution.
The behavior of the police was predicted long ago. All of the people who told the truth about multiculturalism have been vilified and flushed down the memory hole. every multicult society in the history of man has evolved into a police state. The USA has gone from a 90% white nation of people who had shared values to a vile brew of dissent with a hostile elite fomenting hatred against the white founding stock of the nation. By constantly importing violent low IQ non whites and instilling a resentment against whites into them the hostile elite has brought about the necessity for a police state.
If you are for legal immigration or think it is ok if whites become a minority in the USA you should shut up about police brutality because multicult is the only reason we are seeing the police behaving so aggressive.
If you are for non white immigration
The problem with the USA is that it was founded to become the country that it is. As Russia was the guinea-pig for Communism, the USA was for multiculturalism. Sadly, the USA is a fledgling nation, with the most crime and an authoritarian police state. Things aren’t so bad here in the UK, but they’re getting there as the immigrants flood in, courtesy of politicians’ decision to invade the middle east, driving the locals over here to be safe. And who can really blame them?
Understand that this is not just happen chance. The destruction of the European peoples is the only way that a New World Order will be achieved. Once they’ve destroyed all world peoples and cultures, they can bring in world government and a banking system and designate land masses as areas, no longer being called what they are now as nations will no longer exist.
This won’t be stopped simply because the people are too ignorant to realize what’s going on. Rome burned while people watched games at the Colosseum. Nothing’s changed as you can see.
“…why citizens don’t have the legal right to defend themselves against police violence?”
They do. See John Bad Elk v US. There are also at least 9 other similar cases. Also mentioned in some state Constitutions.
We need to review the psychology of individuals who want to be police officers. Were they the social rejects in high school who now wants to dominate those that taunted them? Are they individuals who want to truly protect decent citizens?
Maybe, the wrong criteria is being used during recruitment.
Totally agree, every “cop” I know, is dumbed down beer drinking Super Bowl watching flag waving low iq retards who think Osama USA-ma Biden Bin Laden was killed in a midnight raid by a bunch of Navy Seal Team Six members who were then themselves killed off in various “accidents”. These dumb motherfuckers called “cops” actually think that because they wear their bullet proof vests, combat clothing and carry a semi auto Glock and 8 mags holding15 or so rounds each that they are somehow protecting us is a laugh.
Only a coward would wear a uniform, the people need to rise up, arm themselve, and let it be an eye for an eye. When a white police. Kill a black ,they need to find his address and kill someone he loves
You only hear a heart warm response when something happens to one of them. I would rather live under terrorist rule, than to deal with white superiority, under jewis rule In America. They are the real devils. The Jewish people control all whites,with money jobs cars and houses
And there’s nothing they can do about it. But surrender this country to them ,and be mad about it..
Now now, relax my friend, killing an innocent because their relative killed someone is not only an invalid killing…..its F$&@ING INSANITY!!!! Enough of revenge, revenge is not for us to decide, that task is Gods and Gods alone, it’s in the bible look it up, in the meantime, save the anger, it clouds the mind and darkens the soul
What has changed in this last century is the immunities given to the policeman. In the 1800’s shooting
a sheriff or policeman in self defense was perfectly acceptable if they were acting outside the law. The
officer was expected to follow the law like everyone else. Today the “boys in blue” can assault and murder
with impunity….and folks are then surprised as the body county climbs. The question now only becomes
when the the shooting back starts and more citizens now exercise their Constitutional Rights with
open carry and training with firearms for self protection.
As you pointed out in one of your previous articles, there is an angle to these highly publicized police acts of violence – there is always a camera handy to record the police shootings and other heinous acts.
All this eruption of police violence may be an act in preparation of creating a civil war scenario – Black and Hispanics joining together in attacking the whites in response to a perceived white-on-black violence.
Many of these “killings” may just be “staged” acts. – no victims – just actors. Think about it.
Agreed, MANY of these recent mass shootings have been total PSYOPs against the population to create fear, division, chaos, confusion, and to incite riots in order to usher in martial law (Obama wet dream). Most cops that are not low life scumbag killers, are still too stupid to realize that their very JOBS are repugnant to the constitution, which therefore makes them a standing army and and enemy of humanity.
How long before tens of millions of armed citizens (black and white), when seeing the cops coming just start shooting and consider it self defense?
The very fact that “Police” exist is completely repugnant to the constitution for the United States of America, and every single intelligent person knows this fact. The “Police” are a standing army, and will be dealt with as such very shortly I would imagine.
Of course there is another way: Read the first thirteen words of the Second Amendment, and then imagine whether the present-day problem would exist if all “police” forces were made subject to direct control by the Local population by incorporating them directly into the Local Militia.
Fully agree with your thesis. Your readers may like to read more on this topic at: “Disarm the police . com”
Here is what they have to say:
More and more we hear reports of U.S. citizens being shot and killed by law enforcement officers. Repeatedly, the deadly force action is justified with a statement from law enforcement that the officer followed procedure. Inevitably, the victim made some sort of movement or lunged or disobeyed orders that resulted in the officer feeling threatened. Removing the firearm from the officer’s belt will reduce the confrontational behavior of officers and allow additional time to access situations, resulting in fewer deaths and increased officer protection due to a more collaborative police effort .
We are advocating that police forces curtail their initial use of deadly force when dealing with the public. Deadly force should be available to police when the need arises, but only after non-lethal remedies have been exhausted.
At first glance, your reaction to Disarm The Police.Com may be that the police will be left defenseless and at risk of attack by criminals. But, we believe, the opposite is true. An unarmed police officer is less of a threat to the public than an armed officer, which in itself reduces threats to the officer and encourages participation by the public through increased communication.
According to the FBI, in 50% of murders of American police officers, the officers did not have time to even draw their gun. This is because the initiative always lies with the attacker; they can strike first before the officer can react. Simply arming officers doesn’t protect them. If anything, arming front-line officers increases their risk.
All major police forces in Europe, as well as the US, Canada and Australia routinely carry firearms, says Prof Peter Waddington in the United Kingdom. The exceptions are Britain, the Irish Republic, Norway and New Zealand. In Norway officers carry arms in their cars but not on their person.
The Garda Siochana (Guardian of the Peace) is the national police force in Ireland.
The first Garda Commissioner stated that: “The Garda Siochana will succeed not by force of arms or numbers, but on their moral authority as servants of the people.”
Irish scholar Robert Nielson puts this into perspective, “Ireland’s police are reliant on the consent of the people to be effective. This cannot come from intimidation and coercion but only from genuine support. An unarmed force removes the barriers between them and the community and creates greater trust among both sides. People should not view those who protect them with fear. This respect is part of the reason why Ireland is relatively peaceful and our police are greatly respected”.
When Englishman Robert Peel started the ‘New Police’ in England, the idea of disarming front line officers faced profound and widespread hostility. Peel and his colleagues realized that the police could not defeat the mass of the population by force. Policing by consent was the only option, consent was grudgingly offered by the lower social classes. That was why he consciously decided that the ‘bobbies’ should be unarmed. Even the truncheon ( billy club) should be hidden away, to appear less offensive.
New Zealand has adopted an armed response model similar to Britain, says the International Law Enforcement Forum. There was considerable debate there in 2010 when two officers were shot, and commissioner Peter Marshall stated: “International experience shows that making firearms more accessible to police raises certain risks that are very difficult to control.”
These considerations include:
Risk of police having weapons taken from them
Risk of greater use of weapons against the public and/or offenders
Ambush can never be controlled, whether or not officers are armed
All U.S. police forces have directives and procedures that dictate the appropriate use of deadly force. The basic current precursors to the use of deadly force are given in the following example:
An officer may use deadly force:
1. When it appears to be necessary to defend himself or another person from what the officer believes to be the use or imminent use of deadly force; or
2. To affect an arrest or prevent the escape of a person in custody who, theofficer believes, is attempting to escape by means of a deadly force; or
3. To affect an arrest or prevent the escape of a person in custody who indicates that he presents an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury to others unless apprehended.
As you can see, the decision to use deadly force in the U.S. is largely left up to whether the officer feels threatened. We are continually learning more and more about the human brain and we know that the rational brain and the emotional brain work together. The decision to act is much more than a rational process of sorting out incoming information, as we tend to believe when analyzing behavior in a given incident. Scientists are discovering that expectations, past experiences, prior outcomes, genetic makeup, and previous injury all play an important role in determining our decision making and ultimate action.
In other words, many things come into play that lead to an officer feeling threatened in a given situation. The officer’s interpretation of the situation may also be influenced by the brain’s need to satisfy certain chemical responses previously established from past experiences like military combat or shooting range practice.
You haven’t even touch the surface of police violence.
o At least 1148 people were killed by police in 2014. 304 (26%) were black.
o Black people were nearly 3x more likely than whites to be killed by police in 2014.
o At least 101 unarmed black people were killed by police in 2014, more than any other race.
o Police killed at least 16 more black people in 2014 than in 2012, an increase of 5%. Police killings increased despite a drop in crime.
o Where you live matters. A black person in St. Louis is 5x more likely to be killed by police than a black person in New York City. A black person in Florida is more than 2.5x more likely to be killed by police than a black person in Georgia.
o It’s not about crime rates. Despite the fact that Newark and St. Louis have similar crime rates and demographics, police killed 4 black people in St. Louis and zero in Newark in 2014.
o It doesn’t have to be this way. One black person was killed nationwide in Canada in 2014. There are more black people in Canada than Missouri.
Yes, takeaway the arms from police. That is the only way.
Disarm the police? It is the craziest idea I ever heard. Are you promoting Anarchy?
Disarm the police today, tomorrow the gangsters will loot, rape, and kill us all.
Look carefully at those police is accused of killing, they are all criminals. We have to obey the law and respect our police. They are doing a great job of protecting us.
Here in Pa. on December 1 there were 800,000 men, women and youths all ‘out and about’ armed with high powered rifles, pistols and shotguns. Pretty sure they weren’t worried much about gangsters. The other way around though, yeah..
Bill, your delusional and it looks like you have reading comprehension issues. If the COPS are disarmed, and the citizens ARE armed, then the so called “gangsters” will either fall in line and behave like normal folks, or they will surely die. Now, cowards like yourself obviously can’t grasp this basic concept because you have an irrational fear of boogeymen gangsters coming to rape and pillage you. Real men and real women know better and it’s cowardly faggots like yourself, that are a burden as well as a strain on society
1. I’m fairly certain you don’t know what anarchy means.
2. No gangster is going to “loot, rape, and kill” me. You see I have weapons in my home. More than one in every room. I also have weapons of opportunity(lamps, chairs, glass bottles, etc.) throughout my home. I also am a weapon.
3. Fuck your law. Fuck the police. Fuck you.
Semper fidelis vox Populi. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis.
Sgt Dick Vanstone USMC
It is clear Bill that you do not understand anarchy.
What’s really ironic about your comment is your ignorance. “Tomorrow the gangsters will loot, rape and kill us all.” The police protect the elites, whom they were set up to do. The elites are spraying us, poisoning our food and water supplies, creating cancers and various other diseases, starting wars all over the world, creating umpteen false flags, taxing our labour for themselves…..the list goes on and on. I’d rather be looted, raped and killed by ‘gangsters’ whom I presume you mean the thugs on the street, because I have a high chance of winning against and stopping them. The elites, on the other hand, are untouchable and turning the world into a hell hole.
But, the million dollar question is, Who is going to disarm the police? It is a band of outlaw bandits with enormous resources. Further, the police, the super wealthy and the government are the same thing. No one is going to touch the police.
Police will keep on its Duck Hunting spree – sad!
We the People. We the Armed People.
I cannot agree more with your assessment. Police brutality is the direct consequence of their fire power.
As you said, disarm them. The police function of police is to serve the community – with the guns in their possession, public doesn’t need police to “protect” it.
I have the first hand knowledge of what you said, in a fully armed community crimes disappear. My uncle lives in Nelson, Georgia where every one MUST own, and be trained in the use of it, a gun. There are absolutely no crimes. Prior to passing the law, the town used to have its usual (rather more than that) share of crimes.
Yes, take the gun away from the Police.