Law Enforcement Reality vs. the msm’s Fun-House Mirror (the Kenosha Chronicles)

By Jerry PDX
Monday, August 24, 2020 at 1:16:00 PM EDT

There are around 700,000 police officers in the US, if you count sheriffs and deputies along with fed law enforcement agencies the number jumps to around a million law enforcement personnel. That means we have app. one law enforcement person per 300 people in the U.S. That’s not even including privately owned quasi-police like security guards.

Those law enforcement or security people have millions of interactions with people every day, many of which are with violent criminals desperate to escape, and who have committed heinous crimes. They pull knives and guns on cops and resist with homicidal intent. How can any rational human not realize that among those millions of encounters, there are going to be situations that aren’t handled 100% perfectly or unexpected things happen that can be incredibly difficult to process quickly? Cops are human and make mistakes, no doubt about that, and there are cops with poor judgment that probably shouldn’t have become cops but for the most part, I believe those are exceptions.

What jumps out at you, when you look at the bigger perspective, is how few of these highly publicized cases of “police brutality toward minorities” have any kind of legitimacy to them. But those few cases seem to garner much less hysteria than thug black men who clearly got themselves killed due to their own behavior, yet those cases are background while the likes of Trayvon, Floyd, and Brown get put front and center and become martyrs and saints.