Deadly 'War On Cops' Sparks US Tactic Review

[AdamG]

Is this a media furore or does it reflect concerns on the ground and further up the command / political chain?

Media hype & squealing, linking unrelated incidents into a pretended trend as a precursor to a political move.

Care to guess what the tangentially related headlines will read?

G'head, take a guess. I'll be back after the commercial breaks.

[SJPONeill]

Media hype & squealing, linking unrelated incidents into a pretended trend as a precursor to a political move.

Care to guess what the tangentially related headlines will read?

G'head, take a guess. I'll be back after the commercial breaks.

My guess would be the rise (again) of the dreaded 4GW hydra..."Run away, run away the [insert contemporary bad guys here] are coming...!"

[AdamG]

Paging COL Kilgore. COL Kilgore to the flight line...

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/...t-in-van-nuys/

VAN NUYS (CBS/AP) — A man shot and damaged a Los Angeles police helicopter Sunday and forced it to make an emergency landing at a Van Nuys airport before he was subdued by family members and arrested, authorities said.
The man was firing shots at random with a rifle early in the morning, then turned his fire toward the responding police helicopter and hit the fuel tank, Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger said. The helicopter landed safely at Van Nuys Airport, and no officers were hurt.

[davidbfpo]

A report on 'Think Progress' via Twitter and sub-titled:

Data shows dozens of officers have been murdered by the far-right over the last decade. But no one seems to be talking about it.

Several graphics and a map that shows Florida is a "hot spot".
Link:https://thinkprogress.org/far-right-...-eda32ddbd0b7/

[AdamG]

A report on 'Think Progress' via Twitter and sub-titled:[/URL]

Caveat: "Think Progress" is a Progressive/Leftist publication citing the SPLC as a source. Best to find another set of statistics on who those shooters were.

[Azor]

I would be very careful about using any reporting from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has not been fit for purpose for some years now. In addition, you will often find circular confirmation where a Progressive publication cites the same data using different intermediary sources.

The problem with Progressive definitions of "far-right terrorism" is that they are a catch-all for criminal and political violence carried out by non-Hispanic white Americans; if need be, Hispanics are included, such as was the case with George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin in 2012 (also in Florida). We find that Christian anti-abortion activists are lumped together with pagan white supremacists, neo-Fascists, neo-National Socialists, and radical Libertarians.

In the case of TP/SPLC/ADL, the objective is to inflate the number of law enforcement fatalities. To this end, corrections officers are included, as well as officers murdered at traffic stops and serving warrants. With regard to methodology, if a white supremacist who is also a drug dealer responds violently to a warrant being served, is this an act of "far-right terrorism"? In that case, is every black American who kills a law enforcement officer for whatever reason and under whatever circumstances a black supremacist terrorist if they have any materials on the Nation of Islam or the Black Panther Party?

When we look at data from the FBI's Law Enforcement Officer Killed and Assaulted Program (LEOKA) the following stands out:

• Black Americans comprised a mean average of more than 39% of assailants of murdered law enforcement officers from 1996 to 2016
• During this period, black Americans comprised more than 12% and less than 13% of the U.S. population

When we look at data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Arrest-Related Deaths Program (ARD) the following stands out:

• Black American deaths comprised a mean average of 35% of law enforcement homicides for the years 2003-2009, and 2011
• For comparable LEOKA data, black Americans comprised a mean average of 44% of assailants of murdered law enforcement officers for the same period
• The ARD data includes both justified and unjustified law enforcement homicides

With regard to terrorism in the United States:

• Some 229 people have been murdered in the US in terrorist acts after September 11, 2001 to present
• 127 of these have been murdered during Islamist terrorism (55.46%)
• 74 of these have been murdered during far-right terrorism (32.31%)
• 28 of these have been murdered during non-far-right terrorism (12.23%)

Compare these terrorism fatalities to these demographics:

• 1% of the U.S. population is Muslim
• 61% of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic white

Thoughts?

[davidbfpo]

Thanks Azor for this post. I am aware that SPLC has critics and engages in some strange actions.

[AdamG]

Thoughts?

When the idea of 'children' includes those individuals up to age 25 in their statistics, there's an agenda afoot.
As I said, caveats are in order.
Big ones.