“What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” -- Million Marchers in Murray Hill neighborhood of New York City, Dec, 13, 2014 (youtube.com/watch?v=dj4ARsxrZh8)
On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 20, 2014, New York Police Officers Wenjain Liu and Rafael Ramos were shot and murdered as they sat in the marked police vehicle. The suspect in the shooting, then shot and killed himself.
On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 20, 2014, New York Police Officers Wenjain Liu and Rafael Ramos were shot and murdered as they sat in the marked police vehicle. The suspect in the shooting, then shot and killed himself.
On Saturday, May 2, NYPD Officer Brian Moore was shot in the head and murdered as he sat in his unmarked police vehicle, by a man with an extensive criminal record.
On Wednesday, May 13, a man with a history of paranoia and schizophrenia, was shot after he attacked a New York policewoman with a hammer as she approached him on the street. The man is suspected of attacking four other people with his hammer two days earlier.
On Saturday night, May 9, two Hattiesburg, Miss., police officers were shot and murdered when they tried to effect a traffic stop. Four suspects have been arrested.
So it appears, the anarchists who paraded and chanted in New York that they wanted dead cops are having their way. This, in the name of a “more just society.” This in the name of “civil rights.” This is a perfect example of what occurs when politicians and people in a neighborhood accept the despicable proposition that the ends justify the means.
But what would happen if those who hate cops, got their way, and there were no more cops. What if the people of New York awakened one morning to find that all the cops had vanished? That seems to be happening in Baltimore.
Who does the citizen call for help when motorcycle gangs race down their New York residential streets at 60 mph when there are no cops? Mayor Bill de Blasio? President Obama? The U. S. Attorney General? MSNBC?
And who does a family call when shots are fired at them from a speeding vehicle, killing a 2-year-old child on his porch in his mother’s arms?
And who will come to the aid of a young woman being attacked by a would-be rapist? The neighbors? Did they come to the aid of Kitty Genovese when she was stabbed to death by Winston Moseley near her home in Kew Gardens, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens on March 13, 1964? Some 38 of them heard at least some of her cries for help.
How far would the Ferguson, Mo., riots have spread had there been no cops?
How about the Baltimore riots?
Who does a 70-year-old widow call when in the middle of the night she hears glass breaking in her basement? And who is going to provide armed security in a local high school when a deranged student armed with automatic handguns enters the school with intent to commit murder? The Marines? An unarmed female teacher? An elderly janitor?
When a war breaks out between two rival motorcycle gangs over who will control drugs distribution in a neighborhood, and bullets are flying down city streets, and nine are killed, who do you call when there are no police?
In my 26 years on the bench (eight and a half in the criminal division). I got to meet more cops in a week than the average person meets in a lifetime. I came away with the highest regard for officers including Perry Jackson and Mary DeVine of the Rock Island Police Department, Kenneth Hanger of the Moline Police Department, Dick Fisher of the Rock Island County Sheriffs Department and the Secret Service’s William Albrecht.
Like doctors, lawyers and all other men and women, some police officers are smarter than others, some are more diligent, some have better dispositions, and some were quicker to use force. Perhaps I have forgotten, but in my years around the courts, I can recall only a very few being charged with criminal offenses or fired for misconduct (and a few others who perhaps should have been). That being said, not one of them deserved capital punishment, either at the hand of the law, the mob or a vigilante.
For a New York mob to call for dead cops is something that every American -- from the president to the lowliest citizen -- should find despicable and un-American.
If it is legitimate for a mob to howl for dead cops, why can’t the same or the next mob demand dead congressmen or bureaucrats? And if the end justifies the means -- if cops, including innocent cops -- can be assassinated -- murdered -- to make a political statement, why not nuns, Republicans and Democrats?
And if it is fair for the mob to kill cops in furtherance of its notions of achieving a more just society; why can’t cops murder protesters as their means squelching the sort of riots and looting we have seen in Ferguson and Baltimore? Wouldn’t such noble ends justify those means?
Without respect for the law, and those who work to uphold it, and without a realization that the ends don’t justify the means, America degenerates into Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria -- into a Middle-East hell hole!
Posted: Friday, June 5, 2015 11:00 pm. QuadCitiesOnline
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