Ah, I keep forgetting to blog. Usually I write something up at work over lunch or just in a down time, but things have been busier. Anyway today I want to bring up the subject of Obama restricting military equipment from the police. I mean how naive is that? He is basically giving the protesters more of a reason to protest. The police will have less ability to stop a riot with limits on their equipment, which (if I lived in Baltimore) would definitely make me feel unsafe. I'm not saying that there are not corrupt officers, but it is the corrupt officer himself that should be punished not the whole police force. No peace will come from limiting the tools sometimes needed to enforce it. Don't get me wrong I do not in anyway think it is ok to shoot someone running from you who hasn't pulled a gun. If you're a police officer you should be able to chase him down. However, officers are trained to recognize a threat. If they feel their life is being endangered they have a right to shoot and statistics show that more Caucasians are shot than African Americans. So then isn't that racist to whites? It's like a strictly African American event (which I know there are a few) is not racist, but something that was only for Caucasians would immediately be considered so.
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