Looting, Cop Shop Problems, East St. Louis & Organized Crime

In order not to start this essay with a hard technical subject on a hard technical note I will mention another news story in the headlines-the importation of foreign dogs. Evidently there are vast puppy mills in China breeding teeming millions for export to the U.S.A. Tragically a quarter of those young pups die on the way to the U.S.A. where they might have led full lives growing to adulthood. Even so we may ask, are American dogs so decimated by poly chlorinated biphenyl’s, so effeminized by chemicals introduced to their precious bodily fluids through water, owners so brainwashed by federal judicial promotion of homosexuality that their fecundity levels have crashed low enough that scarcity of young American dogs requires foreign pup imports for pooch aficionados?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/16/hand-grenades-becoming-key-weapon-in-mexican-cartels-arsenals-say-authorities/

Of all the stupid stories of globalism that of importing puppies to the U.S.A. might be at the top of the list. If the cost of nationally produced American dogs is so high that it’s cheaper to send pups to the U.S.A. from China, citizens could benefit from selling there own mutts to the dog-hungry themselves. Probably the U.S.A. and even the U.N. ought to ban the commercial trade in dogs altogether and let every dingo have its day. Local evolution in dog varieties probably would be better and more variegated with strict international bans on the trafficking of dogs. If someone wants to adopt an international dog they should need to travel to that foreign mill and get if for-themselves.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/16/us/missouri-teen-shooting/

Now to the Ferguson story of the month- One doesn’t want institutional terrorism defining the parameters of American existence. Liberty from tyranny and varieties of subtle social sedition are necessary requisites for the genius of economic invention to act freely within a democratic society. Mobs within or without government corrupt democracy and bring economic decay over time.

Community crime organizers have received much support from technology in recent decades. Flash mobs may be summoned with Twitter, global crime cartels might confer with Skype, international and local drug liaisons may be directed with cellular smart phones encrypted or not. Police summoned into dark, rainy nights to moderate ugly crowds replete with hidden weapons ought not respond with the equipment of Andy and Barney or naiveté of Fred Flintstone.

It is challenging to find rationale for the appearance of flash mobs in the street as a first response to circumstances of potential excessive use of force by police before lawful, rational and objective means of civil government review are exhausted.

The killing of an 18 year old black male in East St. Louis by a police officer is another example of the 5 to 1 ratio of those killed by police to those police killed. Most of the people killed by police are felons. If Michael Brown of Ferguson had actually perpetrated an armed robbery that day of his death then he too was a felon though the police officer didn’t know that. That is one of the difficult points that few of the media have mentioned about police amid the calls for a kindler, gentler method of police work; the police are encountering people that may be dangerous felons who will try to kill them.

In the course of virtually any other sort of government work in the U.S.A. the worker does not have to interact blindly with a citizen not knowing if he or she is a dangerous felon that will seek to kill them rather than be taken in to custody. The felony edge in first-strike on the officer in order to escape is significant. For the police officer a slowness of response or an overly trusting nature could result in loss of their own life. That is why civilians ought to cooperate with police officers as if they understood the risk the police officer implicitly has in interacting with anyone.

Like other government and non-government workers policemen probably don’t prefer to be shoot or assaulted on the job, much less killed. Police unions and insurers alone might prefer that policemen remain inside armored vehicles during night mob gatherings rather than get out on the street in a line to confront angry mobs were stones, bricks and bullets might be thrown.

Military forces need to prepare for the next war rather than the last. Police forces to exist on the edge of tomorrow with technology used by citizens surging ahead along with media support to flank their capacity to defend a community from organized crime. A civil police force is a highly disciplined paramilitary unit with training in forensics, criminal organization systems analysis, infantry tactics, crowd control, investigation, apprehension, interpersonal hand to hand combat (in a time where youth may be revved up in wing chun, steroids, methamphetamines, gangsta rap, UBC, Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies) etc. Being a modern policeman is a challenging job. How many policemen encounter erratics from outside the community or within that do not even speak their own language?

The media sometimes believe that flash mobs are a civil rights affair and police a brutal bunch of Democrat Bull Connors throwbacks. Plainly police forces need to be racially inclusive rather than exclusive. Ferguson’s police force has only three blacks amid fifty-five officers. A minimum number of blacks ought to have been twenty since the community is preponderantly black. With such a stark racial line there is an inevitable social and racial antagonistic us/them relationship that develops macro-socially. That line should be effaced with the common knowledge that the police department is not racially exclusive of anyone and that the police work being done is for the security of the populous.

Police forces face a number of sophisticated technological challenges that will only increase in the decades ahead as the consumption of technology and sophistication of software builds a permanent condition of clear and present danger. It will be too simple to produce electronic machine guns operated by cute little robots with face recognition, or for international criminal organizers to infiltrate elements to stimulate politically explosive events. Volatility in mass economic structures accelerated with media p.r. events may induce cause-effect interpolations in order to shape things in an affirmative direction for any given criminal cause.

Plainly American citizens should pursue remedies other than the mob-in-the-street approach encouraged by media and demagogues to address perceived unfair political conditions. Politicians can set criteria for police departments that are quite under civilian control. One must wonder if most of the flash-mobs of East St. Louis are registered voters. One statistic said that something like 6% of Democrats actually voted in some recent election. Perhaps it is more fun and profitable in Ferguson to riot and loot than to vote.

If one were to do statistical research into police shooting of civilians in-depth the findings might be enlightening. I would guess that black policemen have about the same number of shootings as white. A black felon resisting arrest might not be happier about being arrested by a black officer than a white officer. A black officer probably cares about staying alive as much as a white officer and so might draw and shoot the suspect.

When last I examined the F.B.I. crime statistics during the Trayvon Martin incident as I recall there were about 50 policemen killed by felons annually, averaged in recent years. About 250 black felons were killed by policemen. It is worth remembering that T. Martin was not shot by a regular policeman as was Michael Brown who standing in the middle of the road for some unknown reason where a policeman found him before the fatal incident.

If the record of black on black killings of Chicago has any value for comparative analysis of police-civilian shootings it might be that black policemen would shoot blacks as readily as whites. In either case neither would be enthusiastic about shooting anyone because of the problems that follow if for no other reason. If hiring more black policemen brought an increase in the number of shootings of black felons and that brought a public call for the Andy & Barneyfication of police forces instead of better arrest procedures of deployment of better non-lethal weapons systems such as glue-guns and spring-loaded sticky capture nets the ability of police forces to deal with emergent globally-directed mob actions locally might be impinged.