Police Killings Set Record in 2023: Blacks Made up 26% of All those Killed [Initiating Unprovoked Acts of Violence on Others is Immoral whether its done by citizens or by people wearing Blue Costumes]

US police brutality hit a new record in 2023 breaking last year’s record as police officers killed at least 1,232 people in 2023 according to Mapping Police Violence. In 2022 cops killed 1,183 people. [MORE]

Black people disproportionately made up 26% of all those killed by police despite being only 13% of the US population. Killings of Black people also rose - as least year Blacks accounted for slightly less deaths at 25%. [MORE] In fact in 2023 Black people were the most likely people to be killed by cops. Blacks are 3X more likely to be killed than whites and 1.3X as likely as white people to be unarmed.

Born into this arrangement we have been miseducated to believe that “political authority” is part of the natural order of organizing human relations. Yet this is actually nonsense. The source of the police brutality problem and many many others is so-called “authority”- the implied right to rule over people. It is the belief that some people [authorities] have the moral and legal right to forcibly control others [citizens], and that, consequently, those citizens have the moral obligation to obey.’ [more] Here in this context, we are discussing the authorities known as police officers, who as representatives of authority, have somehow been empowered to use force offensively against citizens.

Contrary to lofty legal pronouncements and pretenses of civility, authority is evil and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence.

All force used offensively (not in self-defense) is excessive and immoral. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by people are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. Laws cannot alter morality. Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them.” subconsciously we know that ruling over others by force is barbaric.

There is no rational basis for the belief in authority. All governmental power purportedly is derived solely from the people. However, the government has somehow granted itself the power to do things that no individual citizen could ever do. While citizens have the inalienable right to act in self-defense or come to the defense of others, citizens have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on other people and have no right to forcibly control other people. As such, it is impossible for citizens to delegate the power to forcibly control others to the government - because citizens cannot possibly delegate powers to the government that they don’t have. Other explanations for authority such as the “social contract” theory have been thoroughly debunked. [more] Although we assume there is some valid explanation for why the government should be entitled to engage in behavior that would be deemed to violate individual rights if performed by anyone other than the government, there is none. [more] And [more] Authority, the basis for all governments and rulership, is a farce. [more] As explained by Funktionary, freedom cannot exist in the presence of so-called authority.

Homicide Rates Fell Sharply in 2023 but Racists Don't Believe it [racists Imagine Blacks are Inherently Criminal and whites are Morally Superior. They believe crime stats are Proof of their delusion]

BLACK CRIMINALS FUNCTION AS A NEGATIVE REFERENCE GROUP VITAL TO MAINTAINING THE WHITE AMERICAN SELF-IMAGE. THE BLACK CRIMINAL IS USED TO SUPPORT THE WHITE AMERICAN COMMUNITY'S SELF-SERVING, SELF-JUSTIFYING JUDGMENTS OF ITSELF. WHITE AMERICA'S PREOCCUPATION WITH BLACK CRIMINALITY BETRAYS ITS OWN NEED FOR REASSURANCE; BETRAYS ITS OWN BASIC INSECURITY REGARDING ITS PROJECTED MORAL PURITY. CONSEQUENTLY, THE HIGHER THE INCIDENCE OF REPORTED BLACK CRIMINALITY, THE MORE EXCEPTIONALLY RIGHTEOUS WHITE AMERICA FEELS ITSELF TO BE. THE MORE RIGHTEOUS IT FEELS ITSELF TO BE THE MORE INTENSELY AND GUILTLESSLY IT PROMULGATES AND JUSTIFIES ITS DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLES AT HOME AND ABROAD.” [MORE]

According to the Wall Street Journal Killings were down about 15% in the 10 largest cities last year when compared with the previous year. 

Homicides in big U.S. cities fell in 2023 after skyrocketing during the first two years of the pandemic.

Killings were down about 15% in the 10 largest cities last year when compared with 2022, according to local government data. That includes a 20% drop in both Philadelphia and Houston and 16% in Los Angeles. 

Murders rose in two of the top 10 cities. Dallas reported a 15% increase, while homicides in Austin edged up by 3%.

In 2022, murders in the U.S. dropped 6% after rising 4% in 2021 and spiking by nearly 30% in 2020, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agency isn’t expected to release national crime figures for 2023 until later this year. [MORE]

Poor Americans Skip Meals, Can’t Afford Utility Bills, Miss Rent Payments in Era of “Bidenomics”

From [HERE] Amidst the chaos and disinformation being pumped out of the White House and echoed by corporate media cheerleaders, we all remember this headline:

We all know every politician lies. Some tell half-truths, while others, such as the Biden administration, attempt to convince folks it is daylight while it’s midnight.

We all know every politician lies. Some tell half-truths, while others, such as the Biden administration, attempt to convince folks it is daylight while it’s midnight.

This leaves us with a Bloomberg report citing fintech startup Propel, an app aimed at Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, that reveals an increasing number of Americans are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table.

Among households using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s boosted pandemic benefits, 42% skipped meals in August and 55% ate less because they couldn’t afford food, more than double last year’s share, according to a Wednesday report from Propel Inc., a benefits software developer.

Bloomberg said:

The data also highlight that households were worse off in August from just a month ago. Since July, an increasing share of low-income households had utilities shut offcouldn’t afford the prior month’s utility bill or couldn’t afford rent. More than two-thirds of those surveyed who were receiving boosted SNAP payments said they had some form of debt. [MORE]

Is it MAGA Republicans or Mostly White Liberal Landlords Evicting Mostly Black Tenants Into the Streets? Evictions Soar in CA, Elsewhere. Media Pretends Unknown Forces Cause Black/Latino Homelessness

From [HERE] Eviction cases soared across California in the year after the last portion of a statewide moratorium lapsed, a CalMatters analysis of court data shows. 

The elevated numbers — in some places beyond pre-pandemic levels — show a significant portion of renters remain at risk of losing their homes, despite the state’s rollout of a $5 billion rent relief program during the pandemic and a yearslong pause on many eviction cases that many landlords have said disrupted their businesses and income. A nationwide study published this year found increases in eviction filings are associated with slight upticks in the population of homeless people living in shelters.

The statewide moratorium was extended until June 2022 for those who had applied for rental assistance by March, barring evictions in cases where tenants had not paid rent and said they couldn’t because of financial hardship wrought by the pandemic. The law didn’t stop evictions completely — thousands were still locked out under various exceptions — but it dropped cases to record lows. After it ended, a patchwork of local protections for tenants kicked in for cities that had passed their own eviction limits, which then phased out later in 2022 or earlier this year. [MORE]

WASHINGTON D.C. 2022. PHOTOs are THE PROPERTY OF VINCENT BROWN, THE UNDECEIVER.

LIBERALS LOVE TO DECEIVE BLACK PEOPLE INTO BELIEVING THEY LIVE IN RACIST FREE ENVIRONMENTS IN THEIR LIBERAL CITIES (SUCH AS SEATTLE, PORTLAND, SF, DC, NYC, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, ST. LOUIS, LA, ETC.). THEY ALSO PURPOSEFULLY CONFUSE RACISM WITH BIGOTRY AND OTHER FORMS OF BAD SPEECH/DISRESPECT. WHITE LIBERAL CITIES ARE PLACES OVERWHELMINGLY “run and controlled by elite white liberals” -WHICH HAS nothing to do with the number of ELECTED Black puppeticians or APPOINTED BLACK rolebots in a given jurisdiction. Rather, in all liberal jurisdictions where Blacks reside, elite whites control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, major real estate, utilities, large corporations and businesses, major industry, major non-profits, unions, hospitals, etc) and anything else of SUBSTANTIAL material value. In such places wealthy racist suspects function as the major decision makers in regards to what happens or does not happen to non-white people, particularly Blacks and Latinos.

Neely Fuller accurately explains, ‘the system of racism white supremacy is a socio-economic material system dominated by wealthy, powerful racists’ - not a system of mere bigotry dominated by hateful OR MEAN bigots. In general, in their direct or indirect relations with white liberals, most Black people function as their employees, WORKERS, consumers, helpers, SERVANTS, tenants, patients, clients and customers. RACISTS DOMINATE NON-WHITE PEOPLE - NOT MERELY HATE ON THEM. MASTER-SERVANT RELATIONS ARE THE gravamen of racism white supremacy- NOT MERE HATRED

If liberal jurisdictions are basically ‘racist free’ then who has crammed the jails with Blacks in NYC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus, Minnesota, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Oakland, Atlanta, Kansas City, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans and others? Who maintains the jails in reprehensible conditions in LA, DC, Atlanta and NYC? IS IT MEAN MAGA FOLKS OR POLITE, COURTEOUS LIBERALS???? Who has stuffed a backlog of criminal cases and crowded courtrooms with Blacks in these places? Who is striking Blacks from juries on a daily basis? Who is evicting Black tenants from their homes for failure to pay rent, even during the government’s mindless COVID lockdowns? Who is providing a servant (mis)education to black children in its poverty schools? Who is running their public fool systems? Who is gentrifying neighborhoods, dislocating Black families, businesses and making thousands of black people homeless in these cities? Who is failing to protect law abiding black people in their segregated communities while simultaneously preventing them from arming themselves in self-defense from criminals? Who is it in charge of the police officers surveilling, stopping, frisking, and searching law abiding Blacks at will on a daily basis? Whose police officers frequently brutalize and murder blacks with impunity? [MORE]

IS IT MAGA JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS CRAMMING DC JAIL WITH BLACK PEOPLE AND MAINTAINING IT IN FOUL CONDITIONS?

The Packard Motors plant looks as if a wrecking ball has swung through the top floors, but the building has just been left to collapse. SIMILARLY, THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IN A BALTIMORE HOOD LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN NEGLECTED BY THE COMMUNITY BUT ACTUALLY IT WAS ABANDONED BY ITS WHITE OWNERS IN SAID LIBERAL CITY. [MORE] MOST PROPERTY IS OWNED BY WHITE FOLKS IN SAID PLACES run and controlled by white liberals.  Whatever happened or did not happen in Detroit OR B-MORE is the result of ELITE white supremacist/racist lIBERALS; as they control everything in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war) IN SAID PLACES.

When you move people around you destabilize them. Gentrification or "Racial Dislocation" is an Integral, Ongoing Part of THE REFINEMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF White Supremacy.' - Neely Fuller

Remotely Controlled Caucasianal Black Rolebot Cries On Demand Over Jan 6 [breaking into a Capitol and temporarily possessing Objects therein Cannot Overthrow any Government- contrary to clown Clogic]

INSURRECTION? HOW ABOUT ‘HONKEY KONG RIOT AT THE CAPITOL’ Would one be attempting to takeover the US judiciaL SYSTEM if he/she broke into the Supreme Court and temporarily seized upon staplers, chairs, couches, books or pens? If persons broke into your apartment and desecrated your objects would they then be in a position to takeover your lease? CAN YOU MAKE A MIRROR OUT OF A BRICK? [THE ANSWER IS NO] BESIDES, IS IT REALLY CRAZY TO QUESTION THE RESULTS OF A VERY CLOSE ELECTION in a so-called democracy? false flaggot and probotic golden retriever, Jonathan Capehart should EITHER BE unplugged OR re-programmed WITH NEW MATERIAL TO PARROT.

DISASSEMBLE “BLACK” C3P0. An MSNBC host cried over January 6 in a cringe stunt during his live show and was ridiculed as a result.

Jonathan Capehart was talking with former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on Saturday about his new book on the anniversary of the January 6 riot when he began blubbering.

“I’m going to try to get through this…erm…” stuttered Capehart as he appeared to wipe tears from his face.

“Thank you for what you did three years ago today,” he added with a quivering voice.

Fanone awkwardly continued on, claiming the “insurrection” of Jan. 6 is still going on today within Trump’s America First movement.

“We are still in the midst of the same fight that began on January 6, 2021 and we have a lot at stake in this country and I think that it deserves every American’s attention,” he said.

Capehart’s theatrics were roundly mocked on social media. [MORE]

Media Attacks Tucker Carlson Over Honkey Kong Jan 6th Revelations. Claim 39,000 Hours of Footage Showing Neuropeon Cops and Protesters Calmly Interacting w/Each Other Inside Capitol is Disinformation

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Dependent Media – Establishment (dependent) media is both unwilling and incapable of reporting events truthfully, accurately, or without extreme bias. News coverage is just that—covering-up-(masking) and distorting the events and those wielding the power behind the events (those reported and deliberately unreported). News coverage has simply become “disinfotainment” with the sole purpose of perception and knowledge containment as well as reality concealment. You report in the interests of those who paying you to do so. (See: MEDIA, NBC & NEWS)

Draymond Green “Plays Dark Skinned Basketball?” The White Liberals who Make SNL Continue to Laugh At NGHRS, not With them - Clowning Black Sheeple w/White Propaganda [FUCK SNL]

BLACKS AREN’T TIRED OF THIS NIGGER SHIT YET?

According to FUNKTIONARY:

white propaganda - a game two can play—which consists simply in repeating '"I am better than you" and "you are utterly unlike (opposite to) me" over and over again; despite the historical record to the contrary. (See: Black Propaganda, Intoxification, Oppositional Imaging, Oppositionalism, Neuropeans, Superiority Complex, Caucasian & Disinformation)

A major part of white supremacy is the annihilation of Black self respect.

FUNKTIONARY explains that social relations between Blacks and whites are mediated by false images and narratives within The Spectacle. In this constructed reality the totality of the messaging and images presented are the actual materialization of the ideology of racism white supremacy. Dr. Blynd states The Spectacle is “the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality.” Neely Fuller explains, “racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a universally operating "system" of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white people participate.” "There is no known code of White Supremacy that can be formally recognized as such in a single set of words or pictures. The basic code of white supremacy is the total pattern of everyday thought, speech and action of the individual white persons who practice it. All things that help to promote it are apart of the white code." [MORE]

Like a lubricant, relentless propaganda helps to maintain the cooperative, consensual master-servant relationship between Blacks and whites and has kept Black people in a "continuous state of checkmate” and a “losing streak that is centuries long” in a white over Black system. Coin-operated negroes acting and appearing on SNL and elsewhere are safe and provide a re-assuring message to racists; we are your servants and you are our masters. Elite racists have created an army of Black rolebotic, obedient entertainers, athletes and celebrities to SNigger, bounce, grin, cry, act like children and probotically parrot their masters in service of white domination and subservience to authority. Said SNiggers appear on television, movies, sporting events and social media as thousands of Black characters (or personalities for Blacks to imitate) to disempower and demean Black people while simultaneously providing proof of “white people’s” self-worth, moral standing and superiority in general. Black people must be literally kept out of their minds to tolerate this bullshit propaganda - and they are. [MORE]

According to Dr. Amos Wilson, 

"Psychic Violence — The most powerful obstacle against the liberation of Afrikan peoples from White domination and exploitation is not the ability of Whites to use superior military or police firepower or their threat to use it against Afrikan insurgency, but is their ability to engage in unrelenting psychopolitical violence against the collective Afrikan psyche. It is the White monopoly on psychic violence and their devastatingly ingenious use of it against the minds of Afrikan peoples which represent the greatest threat to Afrikan survival. Wrong insightfully points out the nature of this form of violence:

[T]here is a form of conduct, often described as psychic, psychological or moral force or violence, which does not fit readily under the rubrics of any of the other forms of power. If physical violence involves inflicting damages on the body of a person, how is one to classify the deliberate effort to affect adversely a person's emotions or his feelings and ideas about himself by verbally, or in other symbolic ways, insulting or degrading him? If. . . power includes the production of purely mental or emotional effects and is not confined to the eliciting of overt acts, then the psychic assault of, say, a nagging, browbeating spouse or parent, the defamation of the character of a political foe or even of an entire group, constitute exercises of power. .

Damage to the psyche is surely as real as damage to the body . . . It is plainly not true that 'sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me'. Psychic violence, in which the intended effect of the perpetrator is to inflict mental or emotional harm, is continuous with physical violence.

The ultimate force in the world is the force of mind. When that force is defeated all is lost.

Dominant Whites have used words and symbols to violently and unrelentingly attack oppressed Blacks in a thousand and one nefarious ways, including the projection of dehumanizing stereotypes and caricatures of them; the falsification of their history and culture; the miseducation of Blacks; and the engaging in chronic derisive media attacks on their morals, behavior, intelligence, ways of life, sexuality, physical features, motives and values.

The final end of the violent White-instigated psychic assaults against the collective psyche of Blacks is to induce in them states of false consciousness, self-alienation and self-hatred so as to irreparably impair their capacity to overthrow their White oppressors through the mobilization of their human and material resources.

False consciousness, self-alienation and self-hatred are conjoining states of mind which motivate oppressed Blacks to engage in continuing self-defeating, self-destructive assaults against their own interests and against themselves. Consequently, by these means Blacks are unwittingly manipulated into forming alliances with their oppressors and exploiters in disempowering themselves and in empowering those who dominate and exploit them all the more.

ANON ASKS: "Who Is Most To Blame? Black Comics Or The Black Audience? If we did not support black entertainers who degrade black people, they could not make money doing it. When our "comedy" ridicules our heroes, like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, our religion, churches, pastors, our beautiful black mommas, and our skin, noses, lips, and hair, WE make it harder for every black man, woman, and child to get respect at home, at work, on the street, in the courts, at the mortgage company, and at the hands of law enforcement.

By supporting and defending black "entertainers" who degrade black people for profit, WE are making life harder for every black male who applies for a job and is denied one because he has been stereotyped as an irresponsible fool before he opens his mouth. WE are making life harder for our black mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers to get the respect they deserve, when they are publicly referred to as "bitches" and "hos" by us. Yet we — black people -- demand respect as "black people" even when it is obvious we DO NOT RESPECT ourselves?" [MORE]

Coercion as Power

The instrumental use of force or the threatened use of force by the power holder to attain the compliance of another is often referred to as coercion. Coercion is therefore a form of power. It is of the utmost importance to note as did Wrong that "a coercer may succeed without possessing either the capability or the intention of using force, so long as the power subject believes he possesses both" [Emphasis added]. That is, the coercive power of the power holder may rest significantly less or not at all on his actual capacity to harm the subject, but may rest more or less completely on the subordinate subject's belief that the power holder can do so. This perspective, commonly referred to as "bluffing," allows us to recognize the fact that in many instances power holders exercise power over their subjects because of the subjects' misperceptions and misunderstandings, or false beliefs about the power holders' ability to restrict their options or possibilities. Wartenberg refers to this situation as the Oz Phenomenon, "for it shows that agents are able to coerce other agents by acting upon their beliefs rather than by controlling their action-environment directly." He further contends

that coercive power relations can be brought into existence by means of the subordinate agent's false understandings about the ability of the dominant agent to harm him. This is an important source of power for a dominant agent so long as her ability to realize her threat is not questioned [and challenged].1 [Emphasis added]

While the ability of the dominant agent to coerce the subordinate subject may rest heavily on the subject's exaggerated misperception of the dominant agent's actual capacity to do him harm, equally and often of greater importance, the ability of the dominant agent to coerce the subject may rest on the subject's misperception and underestimation of his own capacity to successfully thwart the coercive or punitive actions of the dominant agent. The often anemic self-concept of subordinate persons and groups, their low self-esteem, their ignorance of their actual strengths, are more the causes of their subordination than is the actual strength of their oppressors.

The long history of White American domination of Black Ameri­cans — which has been enforced and reinforced by the use of physical force and violence, psychic violence and coercive power — has in effect convinced the majority of Blacks that Whites are invincible. Moreover, this history has undermined the self-confidence of most Blacks, narrowed their vision of their possibilities and power, restricted their aspirations to the narrow confines of racial accommodation and assimilation, to being the paternalistic recipients of White sympathy rather than expanding their aspirations to include the overcoming of White power and achieving full, unfettered self-liberation. The unending maintenance of this self-defeating state of mind in Blacks is the fundamental objective of White power and the keystone upon which the infrastructural facade of White power rests. [MORE]

Elite Racists and their Rolebots Have Tricked Sheeple Into Believing ‘King Was a Dreamer:’ MLK was a Non-Violent Rebel, Willing to Give His Life to Obtain Freedom and Destroy All Forms of Slavery

FUCK A DREAM AND FUCK ALL CHEEK TURNING TO PERSONS WHO ARE BARBARIC AND UNCIVILIZED

According to the great rebel Sam Greenlee:

HE HAD A DREAM

I wonder what he thought in

that

flashing,

fleeting,

pain-filled

moment when he must have

realized that turn the cheek

don’t work when you been

slapped by a .30-.30 slug?

IN THE SPECTACLE ELITE RACISTS SPEAK TO BLACK SHEEPLE THROUGH ‘AMATEUR PROBOT’ ENTERTAINERS, ATHLETES, COMEDIANS, LEGIS-TRAITORS AND OTHER COIN-OPERATED, WOODEN DUMMIES who aslo function as their political leaders. to rational observers this is digression. Neely Fuller might describe this devolution as part of the “the refinement of the system of racism white supremacy.” FUNKTIONARY explains the white over black system of vast unequal power is now maintained through “cooperative control” and consensual master/servant relations between whites and Blacks. ISIAH THOMAS (in photo above) PROBABLY HAS A VAGINA.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

rebel – one who lives authentically in the present, spontaneously responding to life according to the dictates of his/her inner voice and undivided intent and unrelenting will. Rebellion is unorganized, autonomous and individualistic. Wherever there is organized rebellion, it is no longer rebellion but rather revolution planned by revolutionaries—for in the very organization, the rebellion and the rebel both die. Revolution is a social phenomenon; rebellion is meditative. Lao Tzu was a rebel; Confucius and Karl Marx were not rebels. Martin Luther was purely a cunning politician fronting as a rebel, joining vested interests after creating a rift in Christianity. He was protesting the power of the Pope, not so that power should be distributed, but that he should be given the power. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the other hand, was a non-violent rebel. The philosophy of a rebel is always that of decentralization of power, and is the acid test of the true nature of a rebellion. A rebel is one who would rather live in hell along with those who are Alive authentically living their own reality than to be in heaven with those thinking they hold and know the truth—vicariously living. If your mama or daddy taught you well, you wouldn’t conform, assimilate, or shirk, you’d raise your frequency, change the channel and rebel. For a rebel, its space is always here, and its time is always now. To a rebel, the past is an unnecessary burden—one need not carry it. (See: Authenticity, Presence, Selt-Realization, Protestant, Pope, The Reformation, Revolution, Religion, Ideology, Ego, Mass, Class, Collective, Assimilation, Conformity & Rebellion)

rebel” – (as commonly understood)—anyone who blames the “System” or “They” (i.e. the powers that believe themselves to be) or the scapegoat-du-jour for everything perceived to be “wrong”—yet fails to take responsibility for the power and autonomy he or she has unknowingly abdicated (given away) to the very force that is responsible for his or her paranoia, displeasure, injustice, discomfort, repression, oppression, resentment, sublimation, anxiety, despair, condemnation or ire. 2) someone who goes against something because it has power or alleged authority over him/her. 3) one who mistakes outer revolution for inner evolution. (See: Volunteer Servitude, “Assemblage Point,” Autonomy, Rebellion, Parental Conditioning, Oppression, Participation, Identification, Justice, Inherent Rights, Adherent Rights, Mastar, Individuation, Freedom, Liberation, Resistance & Citizen)

rebelation – (Subonics)—a revelation received (or insight projected) that imparts the message: to get up, stand-up, and fight for one’s authenticity, integrity, dignity and survival. Just because you may stand-up for something does not necessarily imply that you are upstanding or that you won’t fall for anything either. (See: Rebellion, Transformation & Resistance)

All Praise to White Authority and Dominance on 12/25 [Blacks don't relate to and serve Jesus in the Same Way for the same reasons Whites do, even though it appears they do and they think they do]

According to FUNKTIONARY: 

accommodationism – genuine American homegrown Third World socioeconomic conditions relative to wealth and health. An overlay of injurious interplay where everything in the nightmarish dream of the submissive minority blends with the dominant reality of the last Alabastion (Anglo-world) majority—a parody of oops too-late 21st century friendly fascism disguised as scientific socialism playing the role of monopoly capitalism, itself masked innocuously as captive capitalism. 2) giving the devil its tribute or due even as it is running after you to complete (perfect) its undoing of you—always getting caught on a “dismantled scene, where the wind plays sunset checkers with clouds of Big Mac wrappers” providing a sense of order to the chaos laminating your life. Why is the running joke always chasing those who have the least to laugh about? (See: THC, Violence, Racism White Supremacy, Unaccommodationism, Monopoly Capitalism, Fascism & Socialism)

DOMINATING PEOPLE THROUGH IDEAS. The great rebel Dr. Amos Wilson explained racists dominate Black people through ideas. These ideas appear to be neutral but they are not. To the contrary various concepts and ideas disempower Blacks while simaultaneously empowering whites. Wilson states;

‘We must keep in mind that enslaved Afrikans were not Christians when they were brought to the New World. They were predominantly practitioners of their indigenous Afrikan code of ethics. Therefore, the Christian religion along with its ideological doctrines were taught to and imposed on enslaved African[s] by their White masters. Obviously, the masters taught the slaves Christianity for their own conscious and unconscious self-serving reasons. The theology they passed on to their slaves was necessarily biased in order to serve and justify their dominance. . . . Blacks do not relate to, pray to, and serve Jesus Christ in the same way, for the same reasons Whites do, even though it appears they do. Christianity as a central cultural institution, has not empowered the Black community in the same ways it has empowered the White community, or as it has the other alien Christian communities, or in ways other communities are empowered by their own religious institutions. As a matter of fact, Christianity as it is practiced in the Afrikan American community has probably done as much to disempower that community than to empower it. . . . Christianity taught [to] the slaves by their masters or by the dominant Whites, served to rationalize and justify the status quo of White mastery and Black slavery; White dominance and Black subordination; White command and Black obedience. This ambivalent function of Christianity as taught to Afrikan slaves remains embedded in the church theology of the contemporary Black Church.

This theology and the ethics derived from it functions to sustain White domination, domination by other groups, and Black subordination, by means of inducing Blacks to believe in and follow what appears to be divine, objective, ‘race-neutral’ sayings, proverbs, ethical rules and moral preachments. However, any cursory examination of the mundane outcome of the belief in and practice of such preachments are startlingly different and almost completely opposite for Whites and Blacks.

For Whites Christianity empowers; justifies their sense of moral superiority; justifies and dictates their dominance of non-Whites; provides material enrichment; provides material comforts, reduces material suffering; is self-affirming; produces tangible and desirable results in this world as well as the world to come; promotes the worship of a god whose image bears their likeness; provides a rationale for their racial self-centerdness, selfishness, and exclusivity by confining the practice of brotherly love and equality, self-sacrifice, and the like within the borders of the White race.

For Blacks, Christianity disempowers; induces a sense of moral inferiority; preaches submission, subordination and obedience; is associated with material deprivation; sanctifies material discomfort and suffering; is self-negating, self-effacing; produces relatively few tangible and desirable results in this world while emphasizing ‘pie-in-the-sky’ other-worldly rewards; promotes the worship of a god that wears a non-Afrikan face and bears the facial image of their White dominators and enemies )leading them to consciously worship White people, to think of them as more god-like than themselves, to associate whiteness of skin with all that is good and blackness of skin with all that is bad); provides a rationale for racial self-denial, selflessness, inclusiveness, etc. by expanding the practice of brotherly love and equality, self-sacrifice, and the like to all beyond the borders of the Afrikan race.

Christian theology and ethics, especially in the form of good/evil, good/bad precepts and behavior, constitutes the principal form of White (and other groups) domination of Blacks. The acceptance by Afrikans of White valuations and definitions of good versus evil, good and bad as objective, divinely inspired, universal and race-neutral, allows them to be duped and dominated by Whites simply through the media of ideas. The uncritical acceptance of such non-Afrikan religious precepts as universal, as applying with equal effect across all groups and individuals, without regard to sociohistorical context or situation; without asking, ‘Good for what?’, ‘Good for whom?’, ‘Evil for whom?’ ‘Good from whose perspective?’ ‘Evil from whose perspective?’, can become the vehicle for dominance by the group whose good/bad, good/evil precepts are accepted and thus the vehicle for subordination by the group which accepts them.’ [MORE]

Feds Notice Minneapolis Cops Surveil and Subject Blacks to Violence in City Run by Liberals [consent decrees Can’t Reform Authority, the "Power" to Use Force Offensively, Initiate Unprovoked Violence]

CONSENT DECREES won’t remedy the source of the problem, which is authority; the implied right to rule over people. It is the BELIEF that some people [AUTHORITIES] have the moral right to forcibly control others [CITIZENS], and that, consequently, those CITIZENS have the moral obligation to obey.’ [MORE] HERE, we are discussing THE AUTHORITIES KNOWN AS police officers, WHO As representatives of authority, HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN empowered to use force offensively against citizens.

CONTRARY TO LOTFY LEGAL PRONOUNCEMENTS AND PRETENSES OF CIVILITY, AUTHORITY is EVIL and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence.

All force USED offensively is EXCESSIVE AND immoral. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by people are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. LAWS CANNOT ALTER MORALITY. Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them.” Subconsciously we know THAT rulING over others BY FORCE is barbaric.

THERE IS NO RATIONAL BASIS FOR THE BELIEF IN AUTHORITY. All governmental power PURPORTEDLY IS DERIVED SOLELY from the people. however, the government has somehow granted itself the power to do things that no individual citizen could ever do. While citizens have the inalienable right to act in self-defense or come to the defense of others, citizens have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on other people and HAVE no right to forcibly control other people. As such, it is impossible for citizens to delegate the power to forcibly control others to the government - because citizens cannot possibly delegate POWERS TO THE GOVERNMENT that they don’t have. Other explanations for authority SUCH AS THE “SOCIAL CONTRACT” THEORY have been thoroughly debunked. [MORE] Although we assume there is some valid explanation for why the government should be entitled to engage in behavior that would be deemed to violate individual rights if performed by anyone other than the government, there is none. [MORE] and [MORE] Authority, the basis for all governments and rulership, is a farce. [MORE] AS EXPLAINED BY FUNKTIONARY, FREEDOM CANNOT EXIST IN THE PRESENCE OF SO-CALLED AUTHORITY.

From [HERE] The Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and discriminated against Black and Native American people in the years before one of its officers killed George Floyd, federal authorities said Friday.

In an 89-page report that followed a more than two-year federal civil rights investigation, the Justice Department excoriated the Minneapolis police force as an agency that put officers and local residents at unnecessary risk, failed to act upon repeated warnings about biased behavior and countenanced the “systemic problems” that gave way to Floyd’s death in 2020.

Investigators concluded that they “have reasonable cause to believe that” the city of Minneapolis and its police department “engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the Constitution and federal law.”

These issues, the report said, encompassed things as significant as how police use force and which people are subject to the most intensive law enforcement scrutiny.

The report is rife with examples of police using improper force, even in cases when no force was necessary, according to investigators.

Authorities examined police shootings between January 2016 and August 2022, finding 19 such incidents and saying that while “this number is relatively small,” a significant share were unconstitutional. “At times, officers shot at people without first determining whether there was an immediate threat of harm to the officers or others,” the report said.

The federal probe also concluded that officers “frequently used neck restraints without warning.”

After Chauvin was recorded kneeling on Floyd’s neck, the Minneapolis police banned neck restraints and chokeholds. But officers continued to employ the tactic after it was banned, investigators said.

Again and again, police are depicted in the report lashing out with unneeded force, including yanking a handcuffed man to the ground, hitting his head on the pavement. Officers were “quick to use force on unarmed people, even without reasonable suspicion that they are involved in a crime or are a threat,” the report said. Investigators also said they found numerous examples of police giving someone an order, and then almost immediately using force on them.

Officers who use force are subjected to minimal reviews, with supervisors often failing to assess whether the force was reasonable at all and failing to consider evidence, the report said.

Investigators concluded that the Minneapolis police disproportionately stopped and searched Black and Native American people, and used force more frequently during stops of these people than they do during stops of White people under similar circumstances.

Between May 25, 2020, and Aug. 9, 2022, the report said, police searched Black residents 22 percent more often than White people in stops under similar circumstances. Native Americans were searched 23 percent more often than White people.

The Minneapolis police force “has long been on notice about racial disparities and officers’ failure to document data on race during stops,” which they are required to do, the report said.

But the data being documented suddenly began to dry up after Floyd’s death in 2020, the report said, as officers in many cases did not report racial data on stops and searches over the next two years, investigators said.

A lack of accountability is presented in the report as a pervasive problem for the Minneapolis police, and one that directly contributes to the other issues highlighted in the report, the Justice Department said. The Minneapolis police “accountability system is fundamentally flawed,” the report said, calling it “an opaque maze.”

Ben Crump, an attorney for the Floyd family, and other attorneys pointed to the breadth of the report’s allegations of wrongdoing, including the unjustified uses of force and discrimination.

“Each alone is deeply disturbing, and the cumulative effect of these unconstitutional patterns and practices on the community and individual lives is devastating,” the attorneys said in a statement.

Investigators said they reviewed thousands of documents, body-camera videos and incident reports; analyzed data on uses of force, stops and calls for service; accompanied officers on more than 50 ride-alongs; and interviewed residents, police officers, city employees and local leaders, among many others.

The Justice Department’s findings echoed repeated claims made by residents over the years about the Minneapolis police, and they also are similar in many ways to a state investigation that concluded last year that the department was riddled with unnecessarily aggressive behavior and lacking oversight.

The report’s release came a little more than three years after Floyd, a Black man, was filmed gasping for air while held down by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, and two other cops on Memorial Day in 2020. Floyd’s death helped ignite nationwide protests over policing and social and racial injustice, and Chauvin was convicted of murder the following year.

The Justice Department launched its civil rights investigation immediately after he was convicted. Appearing Friday at a federal courthouse in Minneapolis, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the investigation’s results and depicted Floyd’s death not as an isolated episode, but instead a tragedy enabled by the deep-rooted issues within the Minneapolis police.

Garland said the Justice Department, the city of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis police had agreed in principle to negotiate toward a federal consent decree — a court-approved reform order that can be used to ensure changes within a local law enforcement agency.

The Justice Department released a copy of the signed agreement, which was dated Thursday, and said an independent third-party monitor will be appointed to help assess whether the consent decree’s goals are being achieved.

New Jersey AG Seizes Control of the Paterson Police Department After White Cops Murder Another Black Man (Najee Seebrooks)

From [HERE] When police officers in Paterson, N.J., responded to a 911 call in March from a man in the midst of a mental health crisis, they found someone they knew well.

The man, Najee Seabrooks, had worked for years to reverse a spike in shootings in Paterson, the state’s third largest city, by building friendships with gunshot victims and persuading them not to retaliate against their attackers.

But now, Mr. Seabrooks, 31, had barricaded himself in a bathroom. The police arrived in riot gear and trained their guns on the bathroom door. After a four-hour standoff, Mr. Seabrooks emerged with a knife. The police shot and killed him. Soon the city erupted — not for the first time — in bitter protests.

Police officers in Paterson have robbed, beaten, shot and killed scores of Black men, earning the department a reputation as one of the most troubled in New Jersey. Between 2018 and 2020, the city’s Black residents, who make up about a quarter of the population, were the subject of 57 percent of the police department’s 600-plus uses of force, according to an investigation last year by the Police Executive Research Forum, a national association of police leaders.

A police officer in Paterson was found guilty of dealing drugs from a police cruiser while in uniform. Other officers created a “robbery squad” to beat and rob people. The police have shot five people since 2019, killing four, and two more residents have died in police custody, according to state records, giving Paterson the highest number of police-involved deaths of any department in New Jersey, the news organization NJ Spotlight found in March.

Stories of police abuse in Paterson have become familiar to some New Jersey residents. But the state’s response to Mr. Seabrooks’s death was unique: Three weeks later, Matthew J. Platkin, New Jersey’s attorney general, took direct control of the police department.

The takeover, Mr. Platkin said in an interview, was a result of “high-profile misconduct by the Paterson Police Department, including a number of criminal offenses” committed by police officers. “I couldn’t go to sleep every night wondering what the next shoe to drop was going to be,” he said.

No other state gives its attorney general the power to take control of a local police department, said James E. Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine who works with the National Association of Attorneys General to train lawyers new to the position. It is only the second time that a New Jersey attorney general has exercised that power, and it is the first takeover precipitated by accusations of civil rights abuses.

“It’s a very dramatic thing to do,” Mr. Tierney said.

The takeover represents a bold attempt to answer a quandary that has long confounded cities and states across the country and boiled over in 2014, when a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot and killed Michael Brown: how to fix deep-rooted cultural problems and repair trust in a police department with a history of abuse, particularly in Black and Latino communities.

Mr. Platkin’s move will test whether progressive ideas about law enforcement, many of which have been adopted in other cities wrestling with the same issues, can both restore faith in the police department and tamp down crime.

“We’re taking an enlightened approach to law enforcement in ways that are evidence-based. And it’s working,” Mr. Platkin said. “There isn’t much evidence for the alternative.”

Federal civil rights investigators and officials in other states are watching Mr. Platkin’s actions in Paterson closely, said Alex del Carmen, the court-appointed special master overseeing the Puerto Rico Police Department, which has operated under a federal consent decree since an investigation in 2011 found officers used excessive force and discriminated against racial minorities. [MORE]

The Rate of Latinos Killed by Police Jumped Nearly 45% in the Last Decade, according to Newly Released Data Reviewed by Axios

From [HERE] The rate of Hispanics killed by law enforcement officers jumped nearly 45% in the last decade, according to newly released data reviewed by Axios.

The big picture: It's been three years since George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police, resulting in a worldwide racial reckoning and protests against police brutality. But little data exists on how police violence affects Latinos.

By the numbers: Latinos killed by law enforcement hit .26 per 100,000 residents in 2020, up from .18 in 2011, a study published this month in the Journal of Community Health found.

The researchers examined mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2011 t0 2020.

New Mexico, the state with the largest percentage of Hispanic residents in the U.S., had a rate of 1.02 per 100,000 residents —more than twice the rate of any other state. A surge of policing shootings in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2014, led to a federal consent decree for the city's police.

Colorado had the second-highest rate, with .49.

Zoom in: They found that Hispanics accounted for nearly 20% of all people killed by police between 2011 and 2020 and that their rate of fatal encounters was 1.33 times higher than the rate for non-Hispanic whites.

  • Latino men between the ages of 20 to 39 and those living in Western U.S. states have seen the greatest spikes in deaths caused by police.

  • More than 50,000 years of potential life among Hispanics were lost due to fatal police encounters across all ages, the study concluded. The researchers calculated this by subtracting the age of those killed from 80 (the assumed life expectancy) and then adding those figures for all of the people killed.

  • During this decade, the Latino population grew by 18.3%, while the number killed by police grew by 61.4%.

Background: Researchers cautioned that the CDC's mortality data had limitations, and the rates may be even higher.

  • That's because police departments and other agencies don't keep standardized racial and ethnic data.

  • Jagdish Khubchandani, a professor of public health at New Mexico State University and co-author of the study, said researchers used population and police shooting trends to help develop the rates — a methodology reviewed by Axios.

  • A Washington Post analysis examining police shootings since 2015 found that Black Americans are killed by police at more than twice the rate as white Americans. Latinos are killed at a rate 55% higher than whites, according to the Post.

What they're saying: "The perception is that police brutality is exclusive to African Americans, which is not true," Khubchandani told Axios.

  • Khubchandani said the lack of public health research about Latinos and how Americans focus on a Black-white dichotomy when discussing race contribute to the lack of information about Latinos' police interactions.

  • He said many police departments remain primarily white and male, fostering systemic racism.

Between the lines: Latinos have always known police killed Hispanics disproportionately but rarely had the consistent data to prove it, Max Markham, vice president of policy and community engagement at the Center for Policing Equity, told Axios.

  • "In the majority of cases, law enforcement themselves are the ones who determine the racial identity of people who they interact with. And that isn't always accurate."

  • Markham said more transparency and standardized data are needed to shape policy that would address police shootings.

Doing Nothing Except Tricking Sleeping Toms [Voters]: NYT says Several Liberal Prosecutors Made Campaign Promises to Revisit Police Killings of Black People but So far No Cops Have Been Charged

REALLY DOING NOTHING. Racist suspects at The NYT report, ‘As high-profile instances of police brutality shocked the public in recent years and raised questions about official law enforcement accounts, liberal prosecutors campaigned on the promise that they would review cases that they felt were hastily closed without charges. Their efforts to revisit old cases have won praise from the activists and liberal Democrats who voted for them.

But the re-examinations so far have rarely led to criminal charges. “To reopen a police use-of-force case is, in many ways, a herculean task,” said Steve Descano, the commonwealth’s attorney in Fairfax County, Va. He lost in court after he charged two federal Park Police officers for the 2017 shooting of a man who fled a car crash, a case that the Justice Department previously reviewed and declined to pursue.”

Racist suspects at the NYT further state;

“The incidents almost never have evidence as stark as the bystander video showing George Floyd being pinned to the ground in 2020 for more than nine minutes by Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering Mr. Floyd.

The circumstances often are more ambiguous, the footage less telling. And once a district attorney writes a lengthy memo detailing why criminal charges are unjustified against a police officer, it can be difficult for a successor to overcome those arguments, absent new evidence.

The biggest hurdle for pursuing criminal charges is the wide latitude that officers have to use force. State legislatures, including California’s, have tried to narrow that ability. But officers generally can still use lethal force when they feel they or others could be killed, a level of immunity that law enforcement officials say is necessary to ensure the public’s safety.’

Said statements and even more slave-like rationalizations they set forth are truthful but miss reality and the point.

The point is, if there were a disproportionate number of white men, women and children being killed by police in broad daylight, we know that authorities would be prosecuting cops or trying to prosecute cops for murder. We also know that the media (a white owned and controlled institution), white jurors, white judges, white citizens and most fellow white cops are generally opposed to cops murdering white people and would not support such a thing as the cop’s right to murder white people. In other words, ‘police work in conjunction with white society and its government to keep white lawlessness understood as nothing other than ‘public order,’ enforcing the law.’ That’s what the NYT is doing here - their part. Anon explains, ‘when a white policeman shoots an unarmed black man (50 times), his fellow officers, the police chief, internal affairs, the union, the media, the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury will support, defend, and finance that white police officer’s “right” to shoot (murder) an unarmed black person. That is white collective power.’ [MORE]

The reality is, that all force used offensively by police or anyone else is immoral and unjust. There is no way to control the government’s implied power which is inherently unaccountable. All non-consensual force is too much force. We know this and recognize it in human to human relations. Even restricting immunity cannot remedy the problem of political authority; which again is the belief that some people have the moral and lawful right to rule over others and have the implied power to use force (unprovoked violence) offensively against citizens to enforce obedience to law and their commands.

Contrary to legal truths, there is no legitimate or rational way to account for the belief in the existence of authority. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by citizens are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense, but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. The rebel Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them,” - subconsciously we know and understand the right to rule over other people is irrational and barbaric. [MORE] Rose continues, “Claiming noble goals, saying that the violence is “the will of the people,” or that it is being committed “for the common good” or “for the children,” cannot change evil into good. “Legalizing” wrong does not make it right. One man forcibly subjugating another, no matter how it is described or how it is carried out, is uncivilized and immoral. The destruction it causes, the injustice it creates, the damage it does to every soul that it touches – perpetrators, victims, and spectators alike-cannot be undone by calling it “law,” or by claiming that it was necessary. Evil, by any name, is still evil.” Making it plain, Dr. Blynd states, ‘freedom cannot exist in the presence of authority.’ Yet the entire basis of the legal system is anchored in force, violence. FUNKTIONARY explains, ‘government” very simply is “one man violently controlling the life and property of another man. Because it’s based on violence, there are actually no “states” or “nations because ” states/nations are “voluntary associations.” You may recognize that violent control over a man’s life and property is what we like to call—slavery. Slavery is a form of “government,” and in most cases, if not all, synonymous with “government.”

GRAPHS AND DATA ARE FROM MAPPING VIOLENCE

According to FUNKTIONARY:

political candidate – a politician who stands for what she or he feels the victims of democracy (citizens) will fall for (again). (See: Voting, Vote, Democracy, Citizen, Erection, Demockcracy & VoteScam)

political campaign – an emotional orgy designed by the media’s owners to distract the moron-majority from the real issues, i.e. the money hoax, the crime of credit-banking, the taxing of one’s labor (not profit)—the income tax scam, carrying a firearm sans permit from the Corporate State per the 2nd and 13th Amendments to the overturned Constitution, the bankruptcy of the Corporate State and its creditors the Federal Reserve and the IMF, the difference between autonomy (consciousness-based freedom) and sovereignty (absolute freedom, and absolute truth, i.e., immunity from reality and accountability). (See: Totalitarian Patriotism, Sovereignty, Cooperative Federalism & Sheeple)

political silence – the study of the art of control. 2) censored and muted voices of the dispossessed always strengthens those privileged by the status quo. Scientists who actually engage in scientific inquiries do not take votes. (See: Voting)

The Electorant – the willfully ignorant electorate—the suckers (voters and “taxpayers”) who delegate and abdicate their power to elected and appointed officials (employees) and the system through which voters’ will is subverted through statutes, laws and policies not approved or even known in the election process. The ‘electorant’ are always ranting and raving about their sordid and assorted conditions when they are responsible for them by being ignorant of the nature of delegated power and its effect, i.e., arbitrary power wielded with impunity and State-sanctioned immunity. The electorant have no recourse but to fuss and talk about change—utterly clueless. All power of the State resides in those who hold the purse strings. Control of the “money” is in the hands of those who further use it to corrupt others in order for one to retain power (dynastic banking cartel families) and the other to remain in power (politician). It is a symbiotic racket and one that continues unabated. (See: Voters, GEO-Dollars, “Monetized Debt,” Federal Reserve System, Willful Ignorance, Political Money, Gangbanking, Elections, MONEY, S&M Banking, Taxpayers, Second Tax, Dumbing-Down, Colonized Mind & Citizens of the United States)

politics – in theory, the administration of the axiological nets of a given people; in practice, an elephant and donkey show put on by the ruling class “overrulers” to allow the clueless masses a sense (although a false one) of security and order which leads them further to believe that society is somehow within their control. 2) as commonly practiced—a facade; a convenient charade to allow sheople to feel secure by telling them things that are familiar to them that address their aspirations which cannot be fulfilled through the agency he/she espouses. 3) the fight for executive power. 4) half-realized fears and desires amidst fully-realized collective disappointment and despair. 5) the domination of you externally. 6) the profession without the confession with professionals without confessionals. 7) the conduct of public affairs for private gain by privileged aristocrats or up and coming polecats. 8) war and injustice executed by civil means through propaganda and the secret voting booths. 9) the folk art of failure— one we cannot quite seem to master or forfeit. Politics is a game of exposing another’s shit while covering your own. Politics is like a pond; the scum rises to the top. It is a belief in a solution that cannot solve shit as only you can solve your own shit responsibly without dumping on others to accomplish same. Politics is using and abusing shit to gain, sustain, and retain power. It is also a psycho-semantic disease, the side effects of too-late monopoly capitalism. [MORE]

Do-Gooder Liberals in DC Seek to Change Law to Charge Teens as Adults, foregoing Rehabilitation for Prison Punishment- 'to Help The Blacks Out' [96% of Youth Detained are Black in Majority White City]

LIBERALS DO A LOT OF BARKING AND CLAPPING ABOUT DEINCARCERATION AND COMPLAINING ABOUT BIGOTRY (MEAN WORDS AND DISRESPECT). BUT WHO DO YOU THINK IS STUFFING THE JAILS WITH BLACK FOLKS IN CITIES WHERE MILLIONS OF BLACK PEOPLE LIVE, LIKE DC, NYC, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND LA? RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY, A WHITE OVER BLACK SYSTEM OF DOMINATION AND VAST UNEQUAL POWER CONSISTING OF CONSENSUAL MASTER/SERVANT RELATIONS, HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH RACE HATRED AND THE PETTY BIGOTRY OFTEN WHINED ABOUT “WOKE” WHITE LIBERALS AND THEIR PARROTING BLACK ROLEBOTS. IN REALITY, RACIST LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVES SPARE NO COST WHEN IT COMES TO PLACING BLACK PEOPLE IN GREATER CONFINEMENT. IT IS DELUSION TO PRETEND WHITE LIBERALS ARE SOMEHOW NOT RACIST OR ARE THE GOOD ALLIES OF BLACK FOLKS. THEY ALSO USE GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY TO DESTROY BLACK LIVES. DR. AMOS WILSON EXPLAINS,

"GIVEN THE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIRULENCE OF WHITE RACISM IN AMERICA AND THE INJUSTICE TOWARD BLACKS THAT SUCH RACISM ENGENDERS, THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS, INCARCERATIONS, AND IN MANY INSTANCES, CONVICTIONS OF BLACK MALES SHOULD BE VIEWED WITH A JAUNDICED EYE. THE WILLINGNESS OF WHITE AMERICANS TO HEAVILY TAX THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO FINANCE ACCELERATED AND INCREASED PRISON CONSTRUCTION, RAPIDLY EXPANDING POLICE FORCES AND SO-CALLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM PERSONNEL, BURGEONING PRIVATE POLICE AND SECURITY ESTABLISHMENTS; THEIR WILLINGNESS TO FINANCE THE INCARCERA­TION OF A BLACK MALE PRISONER UPWARDS OF $30,000 TO $40,000 PER YEAR, IN SHARP CONTRAST TO THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO TAX THEMSELVES TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPROPRIATE FUNDING OF THE EDUCATION OF BLACK CHILDREN AND TO COMMIT THEMSELVES TO THE ENDING OF RACIST EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES; TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE HOUSING MEDICAL CARE, FOOD AND CLOTHING; CLEARLY IMPLIES THAT ALLEGED BLACK MALE CRIMINALITY PLAYS A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN DEFINING THE COLLECTIVE WHITE AMERICAN EGO AND PERSONALITY.” [MORE]

From [HERE] 7News is On Your Side reports ‘city leaders plan to address the recent rash of crimes juveniles are accused of committing.

Many viewers had questions about why Kaden Holland, 15 and known as "Baby K," could not be charged as an adult in D.C. despite being accused of murder there.

The U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Holland last week in Prince George's County, where he is charged as an adult after being accused of trying to fire his gun three times at a teenager on a school bus. The gun never fired, and he has been charged in Maryland with attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, assault, and firearm offenses.

D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto [white liberal in photo] is the chair of the council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety. 7News On Your Side asked her if the council would consider changing the D.C. Code that does not allow suspects like Holland to be charged as an adult even if accused of serious crimes like murder.

"I think what's really important here when we have people perpetrating crimes who are juveniles, that there's accountability for our young people in the juvenile justice system. Being tried as a young person or as a juvenile does not mean and should not mean that there's no accountability. We have a juvenile justice system for kids who are less than 18 and an adult system, which is a different system. Regardless of your age, you need to be held accountable if you are committing a heinous act and violating another victim's right to peacefully enjoy their space or in more egregious incidents of violence," Pinto said.

According to the current D.C. Code, juveniles who are 16- and 17 years old can be charged as adults for "murder, first-degree sexual abuse, burglary in the first degree, robbery while armed, or assault with intent to commit any such offense, or (ii) an offense listed in clause (i) and any other offense properly joinable with such an offense" if they are 16- or 17-years old at the time they are accused of these crimes.

After Holland was arrested last week, 7News asked D.C. prosecutors why they could not charge Holland or other juveniles accused of similar crimes as adults, and they pointed to this part of the D.C. Code.

Juveniles convicted of crimes can be held in juvenile detention centers until they turn 21. Meanwhile, Holland can face up to life in prison if found guilty of attempted 1st degree murder in Maryland. [MORE]

WHEN YOU HAVE POWER YOU CAN CRIMINALIZE ANYONE YOU WANT TO. THAT IS A VIRTUE OF HAVING POWER. Black youth are targeted in DC’s racist juvenile justice system. The overwhelming majority of the youth in DC’s juvenile courts are African American, along with a growing population of Latino youth. In 2015, 100 percent of youth detained in youth prisons were African American. In 2016, that percentage dropped to 96 percent, with the remaining four percent made up of Latino youth. Said numbers remain stable. Black boys in DC are 83 times more likely to be arrested than either white boys or girls. 64% of committed youth in FY17 were committed for misdemeanors. [MORE]. Said numbers are similar to those in other states in the ‘criminal justice system.’ According to legal scholar and trial attorney Kristin Henning:

‘In 2015, at least 75,900 youth under the age of eighteen were prosecuted as adults in the United States. A staggeringly disproportionate number of those youth were Black. Although Black youth made up only 15 percent of all youth under juvenile court jurisdiction in the United States in 2018, they accounted for more than 51 percent of all youth who were transferred by a judge from juvenile court to a criminal court that year. These disparities were true even among children who committed similar types of crimes.

Although Black youth were charged in only 38 percent of cases involving crimes against a person in 2018, they accounted for almost 57 percent of youth who were transferred from juvenile to adult court for those same offenses, Similarly, although Black youth were accused in only 19 percent of drug cases in 2018, they made up more than 26 percent of all youth transferred in drug cases that year. These numbers only include youth who were transferred to adult court by a judge. No federal law requires states to collect data on the other ways children may be sent to adult courts. There is no national record of how many youth are sent to adult court by a prosecutor who has unreviewable discretion and authority to make that decision, or by state laws that automatically treat minors as "adults" when they commit certain crimes at certain ages.

Racial disparities in juvenile transfer are even more pronounced in state records,ss Florida has the dubious distinction of prosecuting and incarcerating the highest number of children as adults in the country. The vast majority of those youth are Black. Of the 1,169 Florida children transferred to adult court from 2017 to 2018, 771 were Black. Prison sentences were also 7.8 percent longer for Black youth in Florida than White youth sentenced for the same type of offense.

Once transferred to adult court, youth face the same harsh penalties as an adult. Despite recent legal challenges to lengthy and severe sentences for all young people,61 twenty-five states still allow judges to sentence children to die in prison. These "life without parole" sentences require youth to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison without any opportunity to demonstrate they have been rehabilitated. They will never be able to tell a parole board about their good behavior, academic achievements, religious conversion, or time to reflect in prison. Most will never attend a high school prom or graduation ceremony, and most will never get married, have children, own a home, or care for their aging parents. Many of them will lose contact with an intimate partner and lose custody of children they had before their conviction. Black children will be impacted the most.’ [MORE]

New Data Shows More than 2 Million New Yorkers have a Criminal Record, Costing a Total of $12.6 Billion in Reduced Earnings Annually

From [HERE] For far too many people, a criminal record can stand in the way of jobs, loans, and even housing. Devastating to individuals and families, the economic consequences add up, weakening state and local economies. Research shows that as a state’s share of felony convictions rises, so does the number of unemployed people.

What does that mean for New York? In a 2021 report, we estimated that there were around 337,000 New Yorkers who had been imprisoned at some point in their lives, and reduced earning potential related to time in prison cost them $1.9 billion every year.

But that number was, if anything, an underestimate of the economic effects of criminal records, because it omitted the effects of convictions that do not include prison time.

How many people have a criminal record?

Data on the criminal justice system is notoriously hard to come by, and the Brennan Center and other researchers have historically relied on estimates to understand how many people have a criminal record (and what kind of record they have). By working with state officials, researchers at John Jay College’s Data Collaborative for Justice (DCJ) were able to improve on that process, concluding that roughly 2.1 million adult New Yorkers have a criminal conviction of some kind. By comparison, the state’s workforce comprises around 9.7 million people.

DCJ’s data also identifies profound racial disparities in the distribution of criminal records. Roughly 30 percent of people with a conviction record in New York State are Black, but only around 15 percent of the state’s overall population is Black. Interestingly, our research found that Black New Yorkers make up a much larger share (43 percent) of formerly imprisoned people in the state. This discrepancy could be due to many different factors, among them racially discriminatory sentencing laws.

What is the economic impact of these convictions? 

Equipped with a better estimate of the number of New Yorkers with criminal convictions, we can more accurately gauge the true economic impact of a conviction on lifetime earnings in the state.

According to a 2020 Brennan Center analysis, felony convictions reduce a person’s annual earnings by around 20 percent, and misdemeanors by around 15 percent. Applying those estimates to DCJ’s analysis, as shown below, suggests that underemployment related to a criminal record costs New Yorkers around $12.6 billion annually — more than five times our estimate of the effects of prison terms alone on annual earnings. [MORE]

After Getting Reformed Into the System He Aimed to Reform, Coin-Operated BlackStabber Prosecutor Wesley Bell Seeks to Spread His Step-And-Fetchit Activity for White Liberals Statewide w/US Senate Run

Power Doesn't Corrupt, It Reveals: Inspired to Get Justice for Michael Brown a Black Reformer Ran for DA but When He Got His Chance He Did Nothing: No Charges for Ferguson Cop who Murdered Black Teen

Black Prosecutor Drops Charges Against White Cop who Shot a Black Woman in the Back After a Successful Mediation Session [White Supremacy is Maintained thru Cooperative Master-Servant Relations]

Liberal Black Rolebot Refuses to Hold Evidentiary Hearing Despite New Evidence Raising Doubt About Leonard Taylor’s Conviction. Missouri Authorities Plan to Murder Black Man Tomorrow

MO Authorities Execute Black Man Convicted of Murder Despite New Evidence He Was in Another State when the Crime Occurred. Souled Out SNigger Prosecutor Wesley Bell Denied His Request for a Hearing

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

reformers – naïve politicians. They came to do good and stayed to do well. Reformers themselves get reformed into the structure, consciousness and content of the dominant exploitative system—and thus become the system. (See: Revolution)

The Moteasuh Tribe – the miseducated coin-operated buck-dancing, sole-shuffling, politically dis-appointed kneegrows who pander to Massah’s agenda—Mo’ Tea Sir? This tribe of sorry-ass kneegrows follow the dictates and even orchestrates the marching bandits of racism white supremacy as spewed forth from the mouthpieces of political power within the borders of the Witches Castle. It’s the Condi-Clarence-Powell complex—that is, those who do Massah’s bidding as if you weren’t kidding yourself that you were doing otherwise. Keep your eyes on the lies, the liars, and the disguise.

So-called “Black” Missouri prosecutor Wesley Bell who stepped into leadership in the aftermath of protests over the police murder of Michael Brown is running for Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s seat, the Democrat announced last Wednesday. Bell is a blackstabber and a member of the MoTeaSuh Tribe.

In his campaign announcement, 48-year-old St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell criticized Hawley as divisive while touting his own work in Ferguson, where protests over Brown’s death helped spark the national Black Lives Matter movement.  [MORE]

In reality, said protests have changed nothing - as police continue to kill Black people on a regular basis - in fact police killed more people in 2022 than any year in the past decade. Blacks are 3x more likely to be killed by police and a third of blacks killed by cops are fleeing and posing no threat.

Breonna Taylor’s Mom Endorses Campaign Aimed at Blocking OpporTomist Black Conservative Daniel Cameron’s Bid for KY Governor Over His Failure to Charge Cops Who Shot Black Woman to Death as She Slept

ELECTORAL POLITICS HAS BEEN A COMPLETE FAILURE FOR THE BLACK VOTARY. ELECTING ROLEBOTIC BLACK PROXYMORONS AND GRIMACING RACIST SUSPECTS FOR DECADES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT HAS HAD ZERO EFFECT ON BLACK PEOPLE’S POWERLESS STATUS. BUT SLEEPING TOMS GO ON INDULGING AND ENJOYING THEIR DEEP SLEEP AND DELUSIONS.

FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS,  

ELECTORAL POLITICS - A POLYLOGUE OF AGREED-UPON ILLUSIONS AND FALSE (DEFLECTIONARY) ISSUES. (SEE: POLITICKING & PATHOCRACY)

OPPORTOMIST – A STRAIGHT-UP OPPORTUNIST WHO REVELS IN HIS TOKENHOOD. 2) A TOKEN HOOD HANDPICKED AND TAKEN OUT OF THE ‘HOOD. 3) A LAWN JOCKEY. 4) A “YES-MAN” FOR THE “OTHER MAN” IN DEROGATION OF THE “BROTHERMAN.” AN OPPORTOMIST IS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NAMESLUG WHO HAS BEEN ACCULTURATED AND CULTURALLY CONDITIONED INTO SELF-HATRED AND SEEKS PERSONAL GAIN THROUGH OBSEQUIOUS BEHAVIOR TO CAUCASIAN OVERLINGS. (SEE: SAMBO, CRISS-CROSSOVER, DAMS & MAINSTREAM)

BLACK CONSERVATIVE - A LOST SHEEP IN MASTER'S CLOTHING. A BLACK CONSERVATIVE TYPICALLY HAS NOTHING OF HIS OWN TO CONSERVE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HIS OR HER OWN DOUBLE-CONSCIOUSNESS. SO-CALLED "BLACK CONSERVATIVES" DODGE THE REALITY OF THEIR FOLLY AND POSIT IS THAT WHAT THEY TRULY ARE CONSERVING IS TRADITIONAL "VALUES" AS IF VALUES EVER HAD ANYTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH MORALITY OR ETHICS. A BLACK CONSERVATIVE UNKNOWINGLY PRESERVES THE DIFFERENTIAL POWER-RELATIONS AND DYNAMICS BETWEEN THOSE OF AFRICAN DESCENT HE AND THEIR BOSSES, THE OVERRULING OVERCLASS ELITE. [MORE]

Powerless Louisville NAACP Begs Unqualified, Negro OpporTomist to Resign as AG after Sabotaging Breonna Taylor Probe. The Real Question is Why Did the White Dem Governor Appoint Him to the Case?

Black Conservative AG Appointed to Breonna Taylor's Case who Never Tried a Case and has No Court Experience is Now Baffled by How To Apply Evidence/Facts to Law, Continues to Stall Charging White Cops

Racists Often Put Unqualified Negros in High Positions So that Matters of Importance to Blacks will be Handled Frivolously: Inexperienced Black AG Torn over Charging Cops who Murdered Breonna Taylor

WHAT EXACTLY ARE “BLACK CONSERVATIVES” CONSERVING EXCEPT A WHITE OVER BLACK SYSTEM AND MASTER/SERVANT RELATIONS? ARE BLACK LIBERALS DIFFERENT? IF SO, IN WHAT WAYS? From [HERE] It’s been over three years since the death of Breonna Taylor helped launch a national movement. But the fight for justice for the 26-year-old is far from over. On Monday, Breonna Taylor’s mother endorsed a grassroots campaign aimed at blocking Republican Daniel Cameron’s bid for Kentucky Governor.

If his name rings any bells, it’s because as Attorney General, Cameron was tasked with investigating Taylor’s death. As most of our readers are aware, Taylor was shot to death by police officers who burst into her apartment late at night in March of 2020.

Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, says that the couple were asleep when they heard loud banging followed by the officers breaking their door off its hinges. Fearing that it was Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Walker says he fired his weapon, which is when the police returned fire, shooting Taylor five times.

Understandably, as news spread that a young woman had been shot to death in the middle of the night, calls for justice followed. All eyes turned to Cameron, the first Black Attorney General, to see if he would deliver justice in this case. But to the shock and horror of many, Cameron did not ask the grand jury to bring criminal charges against the officers for killing Taylor, arguing that their actions were “justified.”

Now, that determination could come back to haunt him. On what would have been her daughter’s 30th birthday, Tamika Palmer, showed out in opposition to Cameron’s campaign to unseat Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear.

“He decided that we didn’t matter,” Palmer told reporters, according to the AP, in a downtown Louisville. “He decided that Breonna didn’t deserve justice.”

Cameron has maintained that he was just following the law. However, Lonita Baker, who represented the Taylor family in their lawsuit against the city, called B.S.

“As a former prosecutor, I knew that there was sufficient evidence to indict the officers responsible,” Baker said, according to the AP. “As a former prosecutor, I knew that Daniel Cameron did not even present the question of whether those officers should be indicted.”

Judge in LA Blocks the Use of Pre-Arraignment Cash Bail, frightening Deluded liberal Racists who Believe All Poor, Black People are Guilty by their very existence

From [HERE] A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge last Tuesday blocked the city and county of Los Angeles from demanding cash bail from arrestees who haven't yet been arraigned. 

The decision, sure to send shockwaves through the world of law enforcement, comes in the form of a preliminary injunction, and effectively bumps Los Angeles back to its 2020 Covid-era policy of "zero cash bail," in which those arrested for low-level crimes were released without bail while they waited to be arraigned by a judge, who would then set a cash bail amount.

"The plaintiffs have shown that these defendants' conduct in enforcing the secured money bail schedules against poor people who are detained in jail solely for the reason of their poverty is a clear, pervasive and serious constitutional violation," Judge Lawrence Riff wrote in a 64-page ruling. "The parties estimate they will be ready for a trial on the merits in about 12 months. Between now and then, tens of thousands of persons will be arrested by the LASD and LAPD and jailed under the extant bail schedules solely because they are too poor to pay the scheduled money bail.

"It would be an abuse of the court's discretion not to enter" a preliminary injunction, he added. 

The injunction is set to take effect on May 24th at 12:01 a.m. It does not apply to those arrested for violent felonies or certain serious misdemeanors, such as domestic violence or stalking, or to those who have an open, unresolved case or are the subject of an arrest warrant. Those rearrested while out on zero bail will be held under the old cash bail schedule.

"It’s a great day, not just for our clients but for Los Angeles," said one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, Salil Dudani. "The judge explained in detail not only that it’s unconstitutional to put someone in a jail cell just because they don’t have a certain amount of money in their bank account, but also that it’s bad for public safety and it harms everyone."

The long-awaited decision comes after a marathon hearing that took place, on and off, over the course of nearly two months and saw live testimony. 

The putative class action, Urquidi vs. Los Angeles, was filed by a pair of nonprofit public interest law firms this past November on behalf of six people who had recently been jailed and who couldn't afford to pay their pre-arraignment bail. Bail is set according to a predetermined formula called a bail schedule, and determines whether or not an arrestee is detained prior to being arraigned — typically the first time the accused goes before a judge or gets access to a public defender. Upon arraignment, the judge sets a new bail amount, and according to a 2021 California Supreme Court decision, that judge must take into account the arrestee's financial means when setting the bail amount. 

The plaintiffs say pre-arraignment cash bail violates the spirit of the Supreme Court decision and discriminates against those who can't pay. They also argue that those who are jailed for the 3-5 days while they await arraignment are harmed in myriad of ways — they miss work days, stop taking medication and aren't able to care for sick family members. 

Curiously, the defendant city and county were reluctant to argue the merits of cash bail, offering the most tepid of defenses to the system. That's most likely a reflection of the elected officials they work for, most of whom are liberal Democrats who support criminal justice reform. Most law enforcement officials, meanwhile, support the use of cash bail.

At one point in the hearing, the judge asked Assistant City Attorney Gabriel Dermer: "Are you aware of any evidence arguing in favor of the efficacy of money bail?"

"No," Dermer replied. "The city isn’t going to defend money bail, because the city didn’t institute money bail." 

A spokesman for the city attorney declined to comment on the ruling. A spokesman for the LA County District Attorney did not immediately respond to an email requesting a comment. 

During the hearing, the defendants contended that the police and sheriff's departments were simply following state law and adhering to a bail schedule set by superior court judges. At the start of the hearing, the defendants asked the judge to add the state of California as a defendant, a request that was granted, though the state has yet to make its first appearance or say whether or not it will fight ruling. 

At various points, the city said that LAPD Chief Michael Moore might testify. Instead, the city and county called lower level law enforcement officials to testify about pre-arraignment detention. 

Judge Riff appeared to agonize over the decision, and all but begged for one of the parties to speak for the "broader public interest," which he said was a "mandatory consideration for any preliminary injunction."

In his decision, Riff wrote that he found the evidence put forward by the plaintiffs convincing, especially when compared to the lack of evidence put forward by the defendants. As to the all important question of whether a return to zero cash bail would increase crime and the rate at which arrestees appear for their arraignment, he wrote that the plaintiff's evidence had demonstrated "that it is highly likely that the opposite is true: secured money bail regimes are associated with increased crime and increased [failure to appears] as compared with unsecured bail or release on non-financial conditions."

"What's more, the evidence demonstrates that secured money bail, as now utilized in Los Angeles County, is itself 'criminogenic' — that is, secured money bail causes more crime than would be the case were the money bail schedules no longer enforced," Riff added.

Eric Siddall, Vice president of the LA County prosecutors' union, called the ruling "bizarre."

"It’s bizarre that you’re going to declare something unconstitutional that was created by your colleagues," Siddall said, referring to Judge Riff and the Superior Court Judges who create the bail schedule. He added: "It’s always bad to make public policy decisions on a sample of five cases."

Last week, nonprofit Crime Survivors, Inc., filed a motion to intervene. But on Tuesday, Judge Riff ruled the group can't intervene on an emergency basis, though it may be allowed to do so later. The lawyer representing the group, Mike Gatto, a former state lawmaker whose father was murdered in a 2013 home invasion robbery, said he was disappointed in the judge's decision not to let the group intervene. 

"The perspective of crime survivors is important in any reform that affects the judicial system," Gatto said. "Judge Riff himself noted that he was severely handicapped by what was the record before him. The record before him was not adequate because the government defendants had completely failed to defend this case."

As part of the judge's order, the county, city and plaintiffs will have 60 days to come up with a "different pretrial detention regime." 

A 2018 law passed by the California Legislature replaced cash bail with an algorithmic risk-assessment tool, which advised judges on which arrestees to release based on the danger they posed to the community or the possibility that they might not show up for their next hearing. But two years later, a voter referendum struck down the law. A large number of progressive activists supported the referendum because they opposed the use of an algorithm. 

"Well-functioning jurisdictions like New Jersey and Washington, D.C. release the vast majority of people after arrest," said Dudani. "For many cases, there should be immediate release. There should be actually effective services and supports to help people show up to court."

Riff's preliminary injunction is only the end of the beginning of the case. The state of California may be added as a defendant, and Crime Survivors, Inc. may be allowed to intervene. The case could proceed to trial in as soon as a year from now. The county and city could also choose to settle the case.

"It’s my hope that rather than spend taxpayer money fighting this case, the government will work with us to create a better system," Dudani said.

Under the Pretense of Fighting Crime Strawboss LA Mayor Allocates $3 Billion to the LAPD for Cops to Surveil, Murder and Put Blacks and Latinos Into Greater Confinement

Professor Alex Vitale EXPLAINS, “It is largely a liberal fantasy that the police exist to protect us from the bad guys. the veteran police scholar David Bayley argues,

“The police do not prevent crime. This is one of the best kept secrets of modern life. Experts know it, the police know it, but the public does not know it. Yet the police pretend that they are society’s best defense against crime and continually argue that if they are given more resources, especially personnel, they will be able to protect communities against crime. This is a myth.”

Bayley goes on to point out that there is no correlation between the number of police and crime rates.” Vitale states, ‘the police have never really been about public safety or crime control.’ FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS, “People who are awake see cops are mercenary security guards that remind us daily, through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate state - colonized, surveilled and patrolled by the desensitized and lobotomized drones of the colonizers.”

From [HERE] Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed a $13 billion city budget Friday, with an emphasis on homelessness initiatives and police funding.

Before signing the 2023-2024 budget, Bass highlighted the $1.3 billion that is planned for homelessness, calling the allocations an “investment,” as opposed to “spending.”

“This budget makes investments to bring people inside, in public safety and in other areas that will net a return in terms of lives saved, in terms of the quality of life… and it will save the city money in the long run,” Bass said in a press conference before officially signing the budget. “This budget charts a new course for a new Los Angeles.”

The “Inside Safe” program will be the beneficiary of $250 million, which would purchase hotels and motels for temporary housing, transitions to permanent housing, provide rental assistance and other support services.

More than $3 billion of the budget will be allocated to police, according to City Controller Kenneth Mejia, an amount fueled the single “no” vote from Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez.

“I voted no on the budget today,” Councilmember Hernandez said after the Council’s May 18 vote. “Budgets are a statement of values—and a budget that allocates one quarter of our entire budget to LAPD while underfunding every other department and service does not reflect my values or the values of my constituents.”

With an online petition, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles made a last-minute effort to sway the city council from increasing the LAPD budget, as it did in 2021, but the voting was still nearly unanimous.

“Every dollar spent on police is one that we don’t spend on housing, mental health, parks, youth services, and other life saving resources that Angelenos continue to make their spending priorities,” BLMLA said.

Bass said her public safety plan needed an increased police presence in the city.

With the increased funds, LAPD will seek to recruit 780 new officers and return 200 recently retired officers, which would put the current force of 9,504 above the 10,000-officer mark.