Submitted by: W.G.E.N.
This seems so simple but it escapes those folks who keep blaming the police for doing what they have been hired to do - ENFORCE THE LAW.
I blame the parents of most of these situations. If they taught their children to OBEY THE LAW - to BEHAVE - they wouldn't have to be planning funerals.
When I was raising my children I made it CLEAR to them that I only told them ONCE and they could depend on the punishment if they broke the rules a second time - ONE WARNING was all they got - then the consequences of ignoring or violating the rules. I was not one of those parents that kept telling the kid, "If you do that again you will get a spanking". We have far too many parents who do that and never give the spanking. What is even more sad is that now the courts and other 'authority agencies' do the same thing. A slight slap on the hands and let the kid go to repeat rule breaking. This is what I see as being the reason for all the gang activity - FAILURE TO ENFORCE THE LAW/RULES.
The emergence of the so called Child Protective Services began the punishment of the parents who tried to raise their children to respect the rules and the laws. Granted there have been and still are parents that are abusive and those cases should be handled but the threat so many parents deal with of having their children removed for daring to spank or punish a child. What is even worse is how a lot of those *removals* resulted in the children being placed in homes that were far worse than the one they were taken from - resulting in many cases of sexual abuse. The CPS became an enabler of providing children to those *foster type* homes.
That - in my opinion - is a major reason for the wild law breaking kids we see on the streets carrying guns - looting - rioting - doing whatever they want with no fear of any consequence. First, parental failure to discipline and raise up their child (needs a mother and father in the household) and second the entry of government agencies that fail to correctly enforce the law/rules.
Just a few verses to back up what I say:
Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:4 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 29:15 - The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Deuteronomy 6:7 - And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Proverbs 23:13-14 - Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. (Read More...)
Genesis 18:19 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Proverbs 22:15 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 19:18 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 13:24 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Jackie Juntti
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We need to re-imagine behavior, not policing
Obama recently said that we need to "re-imagine policing." Without getting into whatever he meant by that, re-imagining policing would be a waste of time, effort, and money, which is always a major part of any Democrat "solution." Why? Because what we need, instead, is to re-imagine behavior, especially in certain cultures.
The left constantly preaches victimhood. If a person falls into a leftist victim class, it's always somebody else's fault. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Not only are young being told this repeatedly, but many, especially in the inner cities, are taught to fear, disrespect, or even hate the police.
Radical leftists, given all the airtime they want by their compliant media, and even some Democrat members of Congress, are constantly harping about defunding the police or even abolishing the police. This has become cultural in the inner cities, and it is contagious, as a culture often is. Those leftists who foment this problem with police have blood on their hands. Until this is stopped and corrected — re-imagining behavior, if you will — we will continue to have police shootings.
Pulling over a car is one of the most dangerous things, along with domestic disputes, that police face. They may not know that a person in the car is wanted for murder or other felonies and is prepared to kill the police to avoid arrest. This mentality is part of the behavioral problems that the left deliberately foments, and that is worsened by schools in large Democrat cities that leave kids unable to get good jobs.
I know of one officer who started a "routine" traffic stop. As he got out of his vehicle, the driver leaned out and shot him five times with a .45. Luckily, he survived.
The need for re-imagining behavior can be proven by the one common factor in all police shootings, regardless of race or culture: the people shot disobeyed a police officer's command and resisted arrest. But for that factor, all the left's shining examples of poor victims would be alive today, or at least they wouldn't have died from a police bullet. Unfortunately, because it does not help the left's agenda of fostering victimhood and hatred of police, this factor is overlooked and never discussed in public.
Civics studies should return to the classroom, stressing respect for police and the law. Provide the kids with real-life examples of what happens when people disobey the police and actively resist arrest. Provide analogies to show why this is important.
If someone can disrespect our laws when dealing with police, why not simply be free to disregard other laws? Speed limits? Merely suggestions. Having a license plate, obeying traffic lights? Voluntary. Stealing someone else's property during a riot or even an ordinary afternoon? Why not? They had insurance anyway, and I wanted it. Buying and carrying a stolen firearm without a license? Everybody does it where I live, and I may need it to protect me from the police. The possible infractions get more and more serious as time goes on.
We should ask the students, and ask ourselves as well, what kind of society we want to have. One with laws that protect us and our property, or one where chaos reigns? Seattle and Portland or Boise and Austin? Venezuela or Switzerland?
The left has put us on a dangerous path, and we need to stop it. Wake up, America, and let's start imagining and doing things in a positive way. I suspect that America has had enough of doom-and-gloom indoctrination and would welcome some positive ideas.
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