The police are victimized by their training

It is too early to know if the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge are the beginnings of acts of retribution against police for their wanton murders of citizens. The saying is that “what goes around, comes around.” If police murders of citizens have provoked retribution, police and those who train them need to be honest and recognize that they have brought it upon themselves.

Killings by police have gone on too long. The killings are too gratuitous, and the police have largely escaped accountability for actions that, if committed by private citizens, would result in life imprisonment or the death penalty.

There has been no accountability, because the police unions and the white community rush to the defense of the police. In rare instances when prosecutors bring charges, as in the case of Freddie Gray, the police are not convicted.

Presstitutes treat killings by police as acts of racism, and that is the way the public sees them. This infuriates black communities even more as the indifference of whites to the murders is regarded as racist acceptance of the murder of black people.

In actual fact, police kill more whites than blacks, and often black police are involved in the killings of blacks. For example, of the six police responsible for Freddie Gray’s death, three are black.

The different attitude between whites and blacks to killings by police is explained by the fact that whites assume that police seldom, if ever, behave inappropriately, whereas blacks have witnessed many killings by police and subsequent lack of concern by white communities other than concern that blacks will riot in protest. To blacks it looks like racism. To whites it looks like justice.

As I reported, killings and violent abuse of the public by the police can be explained by the change in their training. The police or many of them are being trained to react as a military occupying a hostile population. An occupying force is taught to protect itself, not the public.

This training works for the Israeli army occupying Palestine, but it does not work on the streets and in the homes of the United States. The Israeli methods have clearly failed for the American public and, if Dallas and Baton Rouge are the beginning stages of retribution, also for the police.

Copyright © 2016 Paul Craig Roberts

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.

4 Responses to The police are victimized by their training

  1. TonyVodvarka

    In this morning’s RT, there is a video clip of another utterly wanton police shooting of defenseless civilians that is breath-taking in its demonstration of complete cowardice and contempt of human life. Someone called 911 to report two men walking with a gun. In fact, the pair were a totally handicapped psych patient carrying a toy truck accompanied by his caregiver. The cops cowered behind lamp posts about fifty feet away and screamed the usual warning to get down and show hands which the caregiver did. He continually tried to explain, very clearly, who he was and why his charge did not respond to orders. Although the situation was clearly unambiguous, the brave blue heroes opened fire with rifles from behind their shelter, hitting the caregiver in the leg. They then rolled him onto his stomach and handcuffed him. When one of the cops was asked by a reporter why he shot the man, he responded, “I don’t know”. When will we tire of such unaccountable cowardice and sadism?

  2. Mixed in with the recent spate of cops killing civilians and civilians killing cops is government covert ops. As with the 60s, the FBI/CIA used agent provocateurs to sabotage and discredit the civil rights movement and the Black Panthers. Some of the recent incidents have a slight stench of COINTEPRO designed to foment a race war and discredit groups like Black Lives Matter (already co-opted by Democrats and funded by Soros). Many major players benefit from a race war including beneficiary #1 Killary Clinton. Her victory over Trump is not 100% certain so the empire needs a big black voter turnout – which is not sure thing this time round. So, what better way to rally black voters than with police brutality? Trump haters get to blame the troubles on him. In addition to guns and gay rights (Orlando has false flag written all over it), Killary adds the big Kahuna of race to her distraction arsenal to deflect focus from her dreadful economic and foreign policy record along with the email scandal. Look for the debates to focus on racism and police with the economy and 24/7 war getting little to no mention. Civil unrest also benefits the powers that be who desire to gut more civil liberties and turn the nation into a total police state. In the midst of the chaos, I smell a false flag rat.

  3. TonyVodvarka

    RT reported today another police atrocity in Texas. A black elementary school teacher, stopped for a traffic violation, was asked for her license and then told to put her legs back in the car. When she did not respond quickly enough, the cowardly cop, who is twice the size of the petit woman, went into full aggression, pulling her out of her car and flinging her on her stomach on the ground. This utterly gratuitous brutality, this obvious racist sadism, is sickening to watch and tells us the depth to which our sorry nation has sunk.