President Trump signs an executive order in an attempt to induce cities and states to reduce police brutality, but did he cave to pressure to flex federal muscle when it’s the domain of local governance to control law enforcement? Or is his order just a written version of using the bully pulpit to affect policy on the local level?
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Excellent, Scott.
Steve, you took the words right out of my mouth, er, head!
Danegeld! I wasn’t thinking of that concept, but the example of it w/ the 55 mph speed limit.
I’ve had an issue w/ ‘speeding’ even before moving out to Calif. where we have the wide open spaces between the cities where the need-to-be-told-what-to-do liberals live. I’ve noticed (in CA at least) that you can go 10 mph over the ‘speed limit’ before they pull you over to get a ticket, which is a way of loosely enforcing the ‘law’.
Not sure what is going on, Scott, but I can’t go to full screen to watch the last few Right Angles.
It is a new feature they are trying, so you can scroll down the page to read the comments and still see the video. Scott has a blog post up about it
Trump is Hitler! Why won’t he tell me what to do?
It worked for Covid, let’s try that logic on police tactics!
Been saying this for a long time. Same with schooling, local, local, local. Having the Fed Gov running things is exactly what the Marxist want.
Wonderful wielding of the Kipling sword Mr Green.
Not getting it, is there a Kigling quote, oh you of the British persuasion who most likely was better educated than us American schlobs?
🙂 Not at all Grace, just a Kipling fan. The reference is from Kipling poem about the Danish Viking raids of the 10th century.
Dane-geld, A.D. 980-1016
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: –
“We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: –
“Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
Thanks!
I have read – am an avid reader of historical fiction – some on the Vikings (Danes). In particular Bernard Cornwell‘s Saxon Tales series and also Jack Whyte‘s Camulod Chronicles series… Both series very bloodthirsty and swinging of swords and other Viking implements of war, but (hopefully) very true to describing history.
Political subdivisions have been routinely “bribed” by state and federal Gov’t to tow the line forever… Been in LE a very long time and it’s been going on at least as long as I have been in…. “We will give you THIS for free or cover 90% if you promise to do THAT….” And they will check on you to be sure you comply…. that’s why I do not apply for any grant with any strings attached….
Scott, cities are chartered by their state governments and are political subdivisions of those states. I’ve lived in states where the city and county governments are restricted in how much they can raise local taxes. I think it’s a good idea to have a referendum before increasing revenue flow anywhere, be it city, county, state, or federal. Let’s get an Amendment to the Constitution making it so. There’s nothing that politicians fear more than losing elections or control over the public purse.
It used to bug me that US Senator Al D’Amato was known as Senator Pothole because his office would respond to such things and people like my brother in law would use it that way because it worked. My explaining Federalism at that point was a lost cause.
Good old fashion individual liberties aren’t even in the rear view mirror anymore. Removing protections from abusive officers isn’t going to happen the way we think. These things seldom do.
I believe that race specific guidelines will make it through the process of local, state, and perhaps federal law. Then will never be applied correctly. Public sector unions, strong arm politicians and bureaucrats will pick and choose cases, Eric Holder-esque AG’s will throw out some and over prosecute others.
We got cozy in the septic tank. You really wondering why it stinks in here?
The police forces rely on military martial arts and teach only guns to their recruits. Military martial arts are designed to kill or maim the enemy. In New York it was simpler to make the use of num-chucks a felony rather that teach cops to use them as most Asian forces do (far more effective than night sticks). As a former martial arts instructor, I can reduce an opponent to a quivering mass of pain on the floor and not leave a bruise on their body and full recovery in 20 minutes. But cops are trained to scratch their butts with a gun (shades of Homer Simpson). Tasers are just an extension of this inadequate training.
sorry RB, but I believe thou art chock full of Bologna…. you know nothing about LE training—
Put Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake in charge of this, as nobody ever died in one of his choke holds. Just sayin’
Bully Pulpit or not, it was the right thing to do. Obviously, some states aren’t up to the task.
Let’s remember that Minneapolis is the same city that hired, trained and promoted Mohammed Noor. Mohammed Noor who shot in cold blood, Justine Damond after she called 911. He shot her because she was…. uncovered meat?
I think he falls more in the quota problem than training problem. The flip side of that is when you worry more about the academy graduation photo more than anything else, the really important stuff will slip until it slips out from under the cover.