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Abolishing the Police
A Terrorist Dream Come True
A Terrorist Dream Come True
What began as a sincere cry for justice in the tragic killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has evolved into a critical examination of policing in the United States. Some are calling for drastic changes in the way police departments operate in society.
And while that call has garnered
support and triggered debate, it has also produced confusion. Some voices
demand that we "defund the police." What that actually means is not
yet clear.
A more dangerous clarion call has
come forth reaching fever pitch among some and that is to put an end to
policing altogether. Mariame Kaba, director of Project NIA, penned an oped in the New York
Times recently Friday calling for just that.
"The surest way of reducing
police violence is to reduce the power of the police, by cutting budgets and
the number of officers," she wrote. "But don't get me wrong. We are
not abandoning our communities to violence. We don't want to just close police
departments. We want to make them obsolete."
Words are important and while we can
debate what is or isn't meant by the word defund, there is no ambiguity in the
word abolish.
The group Muslims4Abolition, which counts Louis Farrakhan's Nation of
Islam and Linda Sarsour's MPower Change among its
supporters, wants "... to be part of the
movement to abolish bail, abolish jails, abolish the police, abolish prisons,
abolish immigration custody, abolish state surveillance, and to build the world
we deserve."
In other words, they want to
completely eradicate every important component in the criminal justice
system. "It is a fact," they claim, "that police brutality
is a leading cause of death amongst young Black men."
While black people, especially black
men have been killed by police, it is far from a
leading cause of death.
Accidents, illness, and homicide are the dominant causes of
death among black men 44 years old and younger, Centers for Disease Control
data shows.
So far, the movement to abolish
police seems limited to activists and protesters. Elected officials seem more focused on reforms.
But what would the Muslims4Abolition
world look like if the politics changed, and who would be happiest in
it? One group that probably would be ecstatic over the thought of no cops
are the terrorists.
Police are often expected to wear a
variety of hats: counselor, confessor, protector, etc. The role of the
local police officer and how he or she acts as a deterrent to terrorism is
often overlooked.
We think of elite federal agencies
like the CIA, FBI, or the even Navy Seals as the vanguard in defense from
terrorist attacks. Too often, we forget the numerous occasions where it was a
local cop who saved the day.
The FBI's vaunted Joint Terrorism
Task Force (JTTF) is comprised of city, state, and local law enforcement
officers. The JTTF could not successfully operate without them.
Historically it has been a local
officer or beat cop simply doing his or her job that deterred or thwarted the terrorists'
evil goal.
For example, it was a New York Police
Department cop named Don Sadowy who in 1993 uncovered the rear axle of the van used
in the first World Trade Center bombing. That piece of evidence was used to
identify the perpetrators who had rented the van from a company in New Jersey.
Before becoming a cop, Sadowy attended an Automotive High School in Brooklyn
where he learned to distinguish and recognize every component part of a motor
vehicle. To the untrained eye, that axle might have simply appeared as another
piece of twisted metal in the rubble.
Two years later, a routine traffic stop by
Trooper Charlie Hanger resulted in the arrest of domestic terrorist Timothy
McVeigh, responsible for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 and injured hundreds more.
Hanger later remembered noticing
"an old yellow Mercury" driving with no license tag. After pulling
the car over, Hanger noticed a bulge in the driver's jacket. It turned out to
be a loaded .45 caliber Glock, which led to an arrest.
It was hours later that Hanger
learned he nabbed the Oklahoma City bomber.
In 1997, two Long Island Railroad
police officers with less than two years on the job, John Kowalchuk and Eric
Huber, played key roles in uncovering a plot by Islamic terrorists to bomb
the New York City subway. They were approached by someone with information
regarding a terrorist bomb factory in Brooklyn. The officers relayed the
details to the NYPD Emergency Services Division, which responded to the
location and captured the terrorists and defused the explosives before innocent
lives were lost.
In 2015, Garland, Texas police
officer Greg Stevens took down two heavily armed ISIS
supported terrorists as they exited a car, hoping to attack a cartoon contest
involving images of Islam's prophet Muhammad at the Curtis Culwell Center.
Stevens returned fire as the two
terrorists started shooting.
"This whole event probably
didn't take no more than 10 and probably 15 seconds," Stevens remembered
several years later. "I'm a pretty good shooter. I'm not a great shooter.
My training kicked in. I wasn't formulating a plan."
In 2017, NYPD officer Ryan Nash
single-handedly captured Sayfullo Saipov, an Islamic
terrorist who had just mowed down eight innocent civilians with a truck and
injured 11 others during an ISIS inspired attack. Officer Nash was on a routine
call at a nearby high school when he heard the call of the terror attack.
Saipov tried to run off after
crashing his truck, but Nash and other officers were able to stop him. Nash
shot Saipov in the abdomen, but the suspect recovered and remains in jail
pending trial.
How many more people might have been
injured or killed that day if Nash and his fellow officers weren't there to
respond?
The list goes on of ordinary men and
women wearing the uniform and carrying the badge who, with extraordinary
courage, save lives, prevent tragedies, and capture the bad guys every day.
Calls for police reform are
reasonable.
But to abolish the police would mean
removing the very fabric of American society that protects us. That is neither
wise nor well thought out. It is perilous.
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3 comments:
Looked at various stores this week to buy a certain pistol for my wife...amazing how many guns were 'sold out.' Even some ammo calibers were in short supply.
Major cities in the U.S. reported bloody weekends amid increased calls to defund and disband police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody. Mighty stupid.
Did the Left hoodwink you into believing that these radical protests against the police or the tearing down of statues have anything to do with fighting actual racism?
Because they’ve tricked about 90% of Americans into believing that their protests are actually about police brutality and systemic oppression—but it goes much deeper than that.
The truth is that this, at its core, is a sinister and covert attack on the US Constitution
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