Having served as a military police officer in Iraq and elsewhere, the veteran, writing as "Clayton Jenkins," is currently enrolled in a rural red state police academy. It was there that he immediately experienced the barrage of lies about the fictional war on police taking place in the United States. Clayton writes:
The War on Cops is a grossly inaccurate response to recent police killings which are on track for another year that will rival the safest on record. Gunfire deaths by police officers are down 27 percent this year, according to the Officer Down memorial page, and police killings in general are at a 20-year low, given current numbers for 2015.
Police deaths in Barack Obama’s presidency are lower than the past four administrations, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
It's deeply troubling when police ignore facts and present propaganda as truth. If they will do it here, what's to stop them from ignoring facts and presenting false evidence elsewhere?
Every police killing, like all violence, is unfortunate. It doesn't make it a war, or new, or part of some dramatic uptick. The number of police officers shot and killed on the job is now down 87 percent from its all-time high.
Clayton went on to ask:
"What are they telling us in a post-Michael Brown academy? The culture of police brutality is infrequently addressed, but what is continually mentioned is the notion that there is a War on Police."
We must investigate and ask ourselves: Why are police spreading this misinformation? What are they getting out of doing this? Who does it benefit, and how?
Whatever the answers, it's disturbing and dangerous.point taken i think it's all about politics, police themselves can't make the laws that protects them and look the other way for civilians. the fact that until the light shined so brightly on their skulduggery and violations of citizens rights and their murderous actions they were making their own law with the help of politicians, DA's, judges, juries and right wing zealots all rigged in their favor.
things like this usually do not get noticed but movements like BLM are bringing it to your living rooms that is why there is such i beat back by republicans and those who oppose with a mic in hand.
did you notice police deaths down during Pres.'s tenure but they have been saying it's his fault that police are being killed?????? btw we have been seeing things that Pres. has been much better at as Pres. than their beloved bag of bones Reagan.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/5-ways-barack-obama-better-far-effective-president-ronald-reagan/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2014/09/05/obama-outperforms-reagan-on-jobs-growth-and-investing/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-walker-obama-police_55f59b01e4b042295e369ee9
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/cruz-pins-deputys-murder-on-obama-shrugs-off-jackass-label-from-speaker-john-boehner.html/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/fox-figures-demand-obama-make-remarks-condemnin/205363
