jimnyc
10-01-2021, 11:32 AM
So for the past year or so, all we see is a long list of shootings in NYC and Chicago alone. Like 30-50 every weekend.
And CNN blames these shootings all on the police. Are people watching this crap stupid enough to believe it?
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CNN Blames Record Surge in Homicides on Police, Guns
Responding to an FBI report on Monday that shows homicides have increased an unprecedented 30% over the past year, CNN Newsroom host Erica Hill sought to figure out why. Ultimately she concluded that it was the police themselves and guns.
In a segment with professor and criminologist Richard Rosenfeld, Hill inquired about the police: "You noted in some of your findings that urgent action was required in terms of the rates of homicide, saying 'enacting needed police reforms will be essential.' Specifically, what type of reforms do you think are essential here?"
Rosenfeld's answer was two-fold. First, he declared, "One is to increase the accountability of police officers who've been shown to engage in serious misconduct, accountability before their own agencies and the law."
That's fine, but what does it have to do with the homicide rate? For his second suggestion, Rosenfeld offered the dubious idea of allowing social workers to take over some of the burden:
Secondly, is to move from police departments activities that are better handled by other agencies, being the frontline responder to drug overdose, for example, in most cases that's not, it seems to me, what we want our police departments to be addressing right now. Other agencies trained in medical emergency services are better able to handle those calls. Responding to the day-to-day problems of the homeless is better done it seems to me in most cases by agencies whose personnel are trained in crisis intervention. So moving from the police department activities better handled by others enables police departments to focus on the immediate and important issue of the increase in violence we've seen.
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2021/09/30/cnn-blames-record-surge-homicides-police-guns
And CNN blames these shootings all on the police. Are people watching this crap stupid enough to believe it?
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CNN Blames Record Surge in Homicides on Police, Guns
Responding to an FBI report on Monday that shows homicides have increased an unprecedented 30% over the past year, CNN Newsroom host Erica Hill sought to figure out why. Ultimately she concluded that it was the police themselves and guns.
In a segment with professor and criminologist Richard Rosenfeld, Hill inquired about the police: "You noted in some of your findings that urgent action was required in terms of the rates of homicide, saying 'enacting needed police reforms will be essential.' Specifically, what type of reforms do you think are essential here?"
Rosenfeld's answer was two-fold. First, he declared, "One is to increase the accountability of police officers who've been shown to engage in serious misconduct, accountability before their own agencies and the law."
That's fine, but what does it have to do with the homicide rate? For his second suggestion, Rosenfeld offered the dubious idea of allowing social workers to take over some of the burden:
Secondly, is to move from police departments activities that are better handled by other agencies, being the frontline responder to drug overdose, for example, in most cases that's not, it seems to me, what we want our police departments to be addressing right now. Other agencies trained in medical emergency services are better able to handle those calls. Responding to the day-to-day problems of the homeless is better done it seems to me in most cases by agencies whose personnel are trained in crisis intervention. So moving from the police department activities better handled by others enables police departments to focus on the immediate and important issue of the increase in violence we've seen.
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2021/09/30/cnn-blames-record-surge-homicides-police-guns