Before last December, it had been four years since the last NYPD officer shot and killed on duty. Det. Peter Figoski died Dec. 12, 2011 after he was shot while he was responding to a home invasion robbery in Brooklyn.
Before last December, it had been four years since the last NYPD officer shot and killed on duty. Det. Peter Figoski died Dec. 12, 2011 after he was shot while he was responding to a home invasion robbery in Brooklyn.
I'm curious as to what the stats will be for this year. They fluctuate from year to year, but I expect them to be higher this year. Hopefully this man will have a swift, full recovery.
I've read that Bloods and Cripps are now targeting local police in Jersey. Cops killing unarmed people of color at an alarming rate.
Something has to give here.
Anyone still looking for a career in Law Enforcement?
You should live in South Yonkers. Bullets fly there daily. Mt. Vernon? I've been saying for years that someone shot in MTV is not news anymore. It's a weekly occurrence.
I really think that hip hop music has a lot to do with these kid's wanton disregard for life.
When I grew up, we had the Teacher, Guru and Native Tongue which has been supplanted by Joey Crack, Murder Inc and Bobby Shmurda.
Murder. Murder. Murder. Murder. You can't tell me this doesn't have an effect on a young, impressionable unsupervised mind.
a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
While that's true, when an officer kills there's not necessarily something wrong a lot of time they have no choice.
This sadly displays just how tough police have it. How many occasions do they approach people in the line of duty. They often have split seconds to where they must decide if they need to draw their own weapon. A second to soon and they are in the wrong, a second too late and they easily could be shot.
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A four-year NYPD veteran from a police family, Moore had been driving by the intersection of 212th Street and 104th Avenue in Queens Village at around 6:15 p.m.
He and his partner, Officer Erik Jansen, spotted Blackwell, whom they knew to have a long police record, said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Blackwell had been fiddling with his waistband, a source said. The officers pulled up behind him, and Blackwell realized they were cops.
Words were exchanged, Bratton told a news conference at Jamaica Hospital.
Then suddenly Blackwell, 35, drew a gun and fired at least three shots, shattering the quiet of the middle-class neighborhood, authorities said.
“He immediately opened fire on them before they had a chance to get out of the vehicle,” Bratton said.
a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
Exactly. especially when these cops, are never found guilty. This has nothing to do with race. People are getting tired of cops doing whatever they please, and getting a way with it.
If you ask me, it's all about divide and conquer. Call me what you want, but there's more behind these stories, than people think. The powers that b, are trying to keep this race war going, and it's working. They're toying with our emotions, and it's working. Race, religion, is all about divide conquer. If they can keep us in separate groups, we can easily be attacked.
Walking on a NYC street. Those cops proactively stopped this lowlife and he blasted them before they could draw their weapons. Luckily only one was hit and he's expected to survive.
a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
While that's true, when an officer kills there's not necessarily something wrong a lot of time they have no choice.
Of course, and that's why I specified "unwarranted" police killings
I hadn't seen it reported anywhere, though I saw he was in a medically induced coma.
And I'm sorry but while there are problems with policing this bullshit race war rhetoric is just fucking pathetic. Of the officers deemed culpable in the death of Freddie Gray three of them are black. The NYPD does not quite match the demographics of the community but it is diverse. It's a difficult and often thankless job made more difficult by people who believe that the mistakes of officer in bumblefuck rural county are attributable to the guy walking the beat in a rough big-city neighborhood and vice versa, and by people who can no more empathize with the beat cop in either locale than they can with the low-income individual who ends up in the back of his car but who have no trouble passing judgment on them anyway.
I'm curious as to what the stats will be for this year. They fluctuate from year to year, but I expect them to be higher this year. Hopefully this man will have a swift, full recovery.
You seem level headed.
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a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
It's the truth
You seem level headed.
I've read that Bloods and Cripps are now targeting local police in Jersey. Cops killing unarmed people of color at an alarming rate.
Something has to give here.
Anyone still looking for a career in Law Enforcement?
You should live in South Yonkers. Bullets fly there daily. Mt. Vernon? I've been saying for years that someone shot in MTV is not news anymore. It's a weekly occurrence.
I really think that hip hop music has a lot to do with these kid's wanton disregard for life.
When I grew up, we had the Teacher, Guru and Native Tongue which has been supplanted by Joey Crack, Murder Inc and Bobby Shmurda.
Murder. Murder. Murder. Murder. You can't tell me this doesn't have an effect on a young, impressionable unsupervised mind.
Oh, well. Time for my nightly Geritol.
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
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a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
While that's true, when an officer kills there's not necessarily something wrong a lot of time they have no choice.
He and his partner, Officer Erik Jansen, spotted Blackwell, whom they knew to have a long police record, said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Blackwell had been fiddling with his waistband, a source said. The officers pulled up behind him, and Blackwell realized they were cops.
Words were exchanged, Bratton told a news conference at Jamaica Hospital.
Then suddenly Blackwell, 35, drew a gun and fired at least three shots, shattering the quiet of the middle-class neighborhood, authorities said.
“He immediately opened fire on them before they had a chance to get out of the vehicle,” Bratton said.
People might've hated stop and frisk. But it sure as hell worked.
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a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
You seem level headed.
You mean, like a flat top?
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a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
Exactly. especially when these cops, are never found guilty. This has nothing to do with race. People are getting tired of cops doing whatever they please, and getting a way with it.
If you ask me, it's all about divide and conquer. Call me what you want, but there's more behind these stories, than people think. The powers that b, are trying to keep this race war going, and it's working. They're toying with our emotions, and it's working. Race, religion, is all about divide conquer. If they can keep us in separate groups, we can easily be attacked.
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a black guy this thread would have 500 comments already
That may be true, but I think it has more to do with the circumstance that we may be able to do something about unwarranted police killings, and for millenia we have been helpless to prevent the murderous actions of criminals. We've come to accept that the only action available to us is to punish them. I think that is the critical difference in the way the public views these two issues.
We can and do deplore the killing of an officer and will punish the shooter. But when an officer does the killing, we feel that something is wrong and should be addressed.
While that's true, when an officer kills there's not necessarily something wrong a lot of time they have no choice.
Of course, and that's why I specified "unwarranted" police killings
Melvin Santiago
"Who?"
He didn't make it?
What a waste he was only 25 years old.
And I'm sorry but while there are problems with policing this bullshit race war rhetoric is just fucking pathetic. Of the officers deemed culpable in the death of Freddie Gray three of them are black. The NYPD does not quite match the demographics of the community but it is diverse. It's a difficult and often thankless job made more difficult by people who believe that the mistakes of officer in bumblefuck rural county are attributable to the guy walking the beat in a rough big-city neighborhood and vice versa, and by people who can no more empathize with the beat cop in either locale than they can with the low-income individual who ends up in the back of his car but who have no trouble passing judgment on them anyway.
Keep praying.