WASHINGTON — Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on policing Tuesday that would encourage better police practices and establish a database to keep track of officers with a history of excessive use-of-force complaints.
In Rose Garden remarks, President Trump stressed the need for higher standards and commiserated with mourning families, even as he hailed the vast majority of officers as selfless public servants and held his law-and-order line, while criticizing Democrats.
“Reducing crime and raising standards are not opposite goals," he said before signing the order flanked by police.
President Trump and the GOP have been rushing to respond to the mass demonstrations against police brutality and racial prejudice that have raged for weeks across the country in response to the deaths of Floyd and other black Americans. It's a sudden shift for the Republican Party — and one Democrats are watching warily — that shows how quickly the protests have changed the political conversation and pressured Washington to act.
But President Trump, who has faced criticism for failing to acknowledge systemic racial bias, has continued to emphasize his support for law enforcement, even after meeting in private Tuesday with families of victims. At the signing event, he railed against those who committed violence during the largely peaceful protests and made no mention of racism.
But Trump's order offered little in the way of enforcement and appears unlikely to quiet calls for broader change in policing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/trump-signs-police-reform-executive-order-322524
The ACLU seized on the optics of Tuesday‘s event, as well as Trump‘s failure to mention racism in his remarks or in the executive order. It noted that on the point of whether racism exists in policing, he even broke with some in his party. The group also called for communities to divest from police departments and shrink police presence in Americans' lives.
“The word he was afraid to use is more memorable than anything he did say,” the ACLU’s executive director, Anthony D. Romero, said in a statement."
metmike:
Trump is being slammed because he did not bring up the need to reign in systemic racism in many police departments.
It does exist but is not systemic and on police killing blacks...........the authentic numbers and facts don't lie. They DO NOT kill blacks at a higher rate!! Please stop blaming cops for a problem they can't fix. We need education, jobs and promotion of black men to be more active in their families. That is the ONLY way to fix this.
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Using statistics to lie and smear cops
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Started by metmike - June 12, 2020, 7:48 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/53752/
A report by Harvard’s Roland Fryer shows that when the cops pull back, homicides increase.
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/good-policing-saves-black-lives
"In 2016 Mr. Fryer released a study of racial differences in police use of deadly force. To the surprise of the author, as well as many in the media and on the left who take racist law enforcement as a given, he found no evidence of bias in police shootings. His conclusions have been echoed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Michigan State University, who in a paper released last year wrote: “We didn’t find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.”
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN POLICE USE OF FORCE
https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf
ABSTRACT: This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police(often related to resisting arrest) . Adding controls that account for important context and civilian behavior reduces, but cannot fully explain, these disparities. On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings–we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers are utility maximizers, a fraction of which have a preference for discrimination, who incur relatively high expected costs of officer-involved shootings. Roland G. Fryer
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Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2019/07/16/1903856116.full.pdf
"We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic dispari-ties across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead,race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings"
https://theundefeated.com/features/trump-signs-executive-order-on-hbcus/
University leaders are hoping for more federal funding, help with infrastructure
“A new HBCU Executive Order issued in the first 100 days of the Trump-Pence administration is a step in the right direction to promote the critical mission of HBCUs, which have created the nation’s foremost African American leaders for 150 years and counting. The president has set a high bar; however, we await the opportunity to see if the administration will meet their pledges, specifically as it pertains to funding for HBCUs,” said Michael L. Lomax, UNCF president and CEO, who was among those present at the ceremonial signing of the order.
According to the Associated Press, HBCU presidents are hoping Congress will dramatically increase funding in the upcoming budget. They are calling for $25 billion for infrastructure, college readiness, financial aid and other priorities. Under Obama’s administration, historically black colleges and universities received $4 billion over seven years.
By COLLIN BINKLEYDecember 19, 2019
https://apnews.com/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a
The bill restores $255 million in annual funding that lapsed Sept. 30 after Congress failed to renew it. Facing an end to the funding, some schools had started planning for deep cuts, with some telling staff their jobs or programs would be eliminated.
But lawmakers in the Senate recently reached a bipartisan deal that saved the funding. Their compromise added an amendment that will simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, the form that college students fill out to determine their eligibility for financial aid.
The legislation will allow the Education Department to gather certain information directly from the IRS, which will eliminate up to 22 of the 108 questions on the form. It’s also meant to curb a verification process some families face to make sure they provided the same information to the IRS and to the Education Department.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate’s education committee, called the legislation a “Christmas present for college students and their families.”
“This bipartisan provision stops families from having to give their same tax information to the federal government twice — first to the IRS, then again to the U.S. Department of Education,” Alexander said. “It should eliminate most of the so-called ‘verification’ process, which is a bureaucratic nightmare that 5.5 million students go through annually.”
The legislation, known as the Future Act, also drew praise from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who called it a “historic bill” that reflects the administration’s commitment to students.
The FAFSA simplifications are estimated to save $2.8 billion over a decade, which will be used to provide the $255 million a year to minority institutions.
The bill authorizes $85 million a year for historically black colleges and universities, along with $100 million for Hispanic-serving institutions, $30 million for tribal schools and $40 million for a variety of other minority-serving institutions.
The money is primarily meant to expand programs in science, technology, engineering and math.
President engages in "useful hyperbole" by claiming he rescued historically black colleges, but his administration has made good on some of its promise to support the sector.
January 23, 2020
"However, the White House and the U.S. Department of Education can make legitimate points when touting their support for the sector.
“Things continue on the right path,” said Ivory Toldson, a professor of psychology at Howard University and editor in chief of The Journal of Negro Education. “I can’t say that the administration has been obstructive.”
Some HBCU leaders, for example, point to the March 2018 move by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to cancel the repayment of more than $300 million in federal relief loans that four historically black colleges took out after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit in 2005.
“She was genuinely interested in working on our behalf,” said Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University in New Orleans, which received loan relief from DeVos. “That’s their big win” with HBCUs, he said of the administration.
National groups that represent HBCUs have sought to cultivate close ties to the Trump administration. While those efforts have been controversial on HBCU campuses, the sector’s leaders have had some successes.
In particular they point to increases in key funding streams. For example, during the last three fiscal years, federal programs that the United Negro College Fund deems most important to HBCUs have seen a collective increase of more than $200 million in funding, said Lodriguez Murray, UNCF’s senior vice president of public policy and government affairs.
For example, the Strengthening Historically Black Colleges program, which is part of Title III, increased from $245 million in federal support in 2017 to $325 million this fiscal year.
Advocates for black colleges also had been quietly opposed to the Obama-era borrower-defense rule. When DeVos rolled back the rule, provoking sustained condemnation from consumer advocates, the department cited a letter from UNCF that challenged several provisions in the rule.
In addition, Murray cited a successful push for the federal government to provide financial relief through deferments to private HBCUs that saw their enrollments decline due to changes made to the Parent PLUS loan program during the Obama administration -- a decision that infuriated HBCU leaders. Congress and the Trump administration backed the deferments.
HBCU leaders also have pointed to the Trump administration's support of the return of so-called year-round Pell Grants as well as symbolic moves such as the transfer of the White House HBCU Initiative from the Education Department to the administration’s executive offices.
“When these items have gotten to the president’s desk,” Murray said, “the president has signed each and every one.”
metmike: Regardless of what Trump says(which is always exaggerated) and what his critics say, which is always negative, what matters is what happened.................increases in key funding streams to black colleges the while Trump has been president.
Also, increased jobs for blacks before the pandemic.
Also, lower violent crime rates committed by blacks during the Trump administration tied to the lower black unemployment rate.
Also, reform of the criminal justice system that allowed many blacks to gain freedom for non violent crimes.
https://apnews.com/b59668424ae246bca00107943361ba79
By KEVIN FREKING and MEG KINNARD October 25, 2019
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When President Donald Trump talks about how his policies are helping African Americans, he almost always mentions a new law that has allowed thousands of non-violent offenders to gain early release from federal prison.
He made the pitch again Friday at a criminal justice conference in South Carolina. And then he sought common ground with African Americans by saying he has had his own brush with a justice system that many say treats blacks and other people of color unfairly.
https://www.voanews.com/usa/how-trump-gained-upper-hand-criminal-justice-issues-2020-campaign
By Masood Farivar
November 29, 2019 07:50 AM
Yet, one side continually insists that this president is racist and promotes racism/racist policies!
This is made up!
Wearing colorful African garb and kneeling for 9 minutes did nothing to help African Americans.
Removing statues of people that had slaves or that were in the Confederate Army will satisfy what critical needs for African Americans that want educations and jobs and strong families?
Protesting? Peaceful protests are a good thing to express your freedom of speech/ opinion but how many were protesting blacks lack of a good education system, lack of jobs and high incarceration rates, that includes committing a 6 times higher rate for violent crime? Blacks not enjoying as much of the American Dream as whites?
They were protesting racist cops.
The solution to this problem.......defund the police and make black communities even less safe with higher crime rates. Take cops out of schools to make them less safe in the inner cities and harder for educating the young blacks there. Remove good cops shows on tv because they would promote a better image and more trust in the police by African Americans and more cooperation........if the gentleman in Atlanta had cooperated, the scenario would have unfolded completely different.
So all those solutions above would make it WORSE!
Also, focusing all the resources on something that is a small fraction of the real problems is causing everybody to ignore the real problems.
But blaming the cops, virtue signalling by the democrats and convincing everybody that President Trump is a racist, so if you vote for him, as Biden claimed "you ain't black". This is how you lock in the black vote for another election.
A popular civil rights attorney and talk radio host urged elected representatives, who respect and obey the rules of society, to consider ending their political affiliation with the Democratic Party.
Leo Terrell has invited members of Congress to consider quitting the Democratic Party because the political group is incapable of maintaining law and order.
“Democrats please leave the party,” he told Fox News’s “Hannity.” He said, “If you want law and order you cannot get it from the Democrats … you have to leave the Democratic Party–get out of there, do not let the Democratic Party trick you, please.”
The civil rights attorney revealed he has long disassociated himself from the party because he was fed up with the “Democratic Kool-Aid” of more noble values than there really were. He gave the example of former Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.) who opposed integrating African Americans into society and introducing steps to prevent executions without a proper trial.
“He was opposed to anti-lynching bills,” he said. “This is what bothers me about this whole thing, that the Democrats, just because of the ‘D’ in their name, they can be a racist … I cannot take this hypocrisy anymore, it is ridiculous.”
Terrell was also upset about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s controversial remark to Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God that he “ain’t black” if he votes for President Donald Trump.
“That statement by Joe Biden is so offensive and then you get [film director] Spike Lee out there and saying, ‘It’s okay,’ that is offensive,” he said. “If any Republican said the same thing they would be in trouble, big trouble.”
He believes there is no need for Biden or other Democrats to spread the party’s hate speech and suggested they should instead focus on delivering real regulatory change.
“The bottom line is this: I do not need the Democrats to insult me or try to placate me with African garb, [Democratic House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi,” he said. “Pass some laws, pass some reforms, show me something other than some kind of condescending act just because you are a Democrat. That does not follow anymore.”
He also revealed he refuses to vote for Biden at the upcoming general election on Nov. 3
“I am not voting for Joe Biden, I am not voting for Joe Biden,” he said. “If he puts [Democratic California Sen.] Kamala Harris on [as vice president,] I will vote for Donald Trump.”
Pelosi, whose father—the late former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., once praised Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at a monument dedication ceremony in his city over half a century ago, has called for the immediate removal of all Confederate statues from the halls of Congress.
In her letter Wednesday, June 10, Pelosi asked Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) to direct the Architect of the Capitol to “immediately” start removing 11 statues of Confederate leaders from display in the Capitol complex.
“The halls of Congress are the very heart of our democracy,” Pelosi said in the letter obtained by ABC News. “The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation. Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals. Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed.”
During a Fox News “Hannity” interview on Friday, civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said he was fed up with Democratic Party’s “hypocrisy,” calling it “ridiculous.”
“You know, this is why I stopped drinking the Democratic Kool-Aid. I can’t take this hypocrisy anymore, it’s ridiculous,” Terrell said.
Nancy Pelosi is 80 years old and spent much of her life as a leading Democrat from California.
Surely, during that time she must have some noteworthy accomplishments to show that she has been a strong advocate for African Americans..........coming up with key legislation to help them with education or jobs or criminal justice reform.
Or belonging to organizations that help blacks.
I see from her record, that she has been a strong advocate for LGBT rights for decades. Also for immigration............but nothing on African Americans.
It looks like she just came out with her strong support for African Americans recently and so far, has demonstrated that by wearing colorful African American garb and calling for the removal of statutes.
All those years and a 6 figure salary representing African Americans in a leadership position in California and speaker of the house and that's all we get that stands out(other than voting, which is what every congress person does).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi#Civil_liberties_and_human_rights
https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/a-black-lives-pander-by-democrats-devine/
Let us know Biden and his party by what they have done for black people in all the decades Dems have enjoyed a firm hold on their vote.
If they really cared about black lives, they would have tried to address the real reasons for black disadvantage. They would worry about fatherlessness, the 70 percent of black children born to single mothers, the illiteracy that holds down black achievement, and drugs that blight black lives.
They would champion school choice, which Attorney General Bill Barr calls the “civil rights issue of our era.”
They would wonder why black disadvantage and violence is entrenched in cities they have controlled for decades.
But instead, Democrats blather about “systemic racism” and blame cops and President Trump.
They pander with empty gestures such as Mayor de Blasio renaming streets after Black Lives Matter.
No one does pandering better than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her genuflecting performance in African garb was nauseating. But when she found herself unable to get off the floor, she did at least provide an inadvertent metaphor for the Democrats’ electoral prospects in November.
Five months out from an election, it is obvious they are stoking black grievance as an electoral necessity.
The priority is not “Black Lives Matter.” It’s “Black Votes Matter.”
How convenient that the Floyd protests erupted just a week after Biden made a catastrophic mistake that threatened the very basis of his presidential run. He lost his temper with popular black radio host Charlamagne tha God, and blurted out the truth of his party’s attitude to race: “If you’ve got a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
The naked racism set off a thunderclap of panic among Democrats. It vindicated the “Blexit” movement Candace Owens founded for black people to break free from the “victim narrative” the party has created for them.
Convulsions on the street these past two weeks reflect the psychic implosion of the Democratic Party as the black vote they have taken for granted for 60 years threatens to slip away. They expose impure motives by fomenting black grievance and empowering black radicals, as black-owned businesses are looted and burned, and urban communities are left bereft.
As for Biden, he acts as if he owns the black vote and has some special empathy on race. But his record tells a different story.
When he arrived in the Senate in 1973, he sucked up to Democratic segregationists who gave him plum committee roles.
He boasted he was the architect of 1994 crime legislation that was disproportionately tough on black lives. Its mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses resulted in the incarceration of a generation of young black men.
The tragic irony is that Floyd was one of those young men and it probably ruined his life.
The son of a single mother, from public housing in Houston, he wanted to make something of himself, and was the first in his family to go to college.
But in 1997 at age 23, he was jailed for 10 months for possession of less than one ounce of cocaine.
If he had been offered drug rehabilitation and a job, perhaps he could have avoided a lost decade of stints in and out of jail.
That’s the context for Biden’s claim to be the candidate for black America.
“What is Mr. Biden doing,” asks black scholar Shelby Steele, of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
“Does he really deeply care about black America … or is he using our pain as a kind of advertisement of his own moral vanity … that he thinks will translate into votes and get him elected?”
Steele, who grew up in segregated Chicago in the 1950s and ’60s, posed the question on Fox News this week, whether Biden knows that many of the difficulties of black America “have nothing in the world to do with racism.”
“White guilt [and] exploitation of black pain is not dissimilar to what segregation did. In either case we end up as blacks dependent on … people like Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, American liberalism …
“We are trained and encouraged to see our opportunities through them. We have to pressure them to make our lives better [as if] it’s not something we can do ourselves …
“We’ve had 60 years of deference, the Great Society programs, the war on poverty, affirmative action, busing, public housing … and we’re further behind now than we were in the ’50s and ’60s because it’s not about us. It’s about [a politician] winning power for himself, appeasing what he thinks his voters want.”
In the end, “continually trying to solicit the Joe Bidens of the world in that sort of corrupt symbiosis with white guilt” is a dead end.
“We have to be the engineers of our fate … We are our own best resource.”
If only that were the lesson America takes from Floyd’s life, so that, as his brother Philonise said Wednesday, “his death is not in vain.”
As stated earlier. It's not what you say or what people say about you............it's your actions in the past that tell us who you really are!
So you don't think that I am just complaining or being political or being a Trump apologist....... this is me, below, 25 years as a chess coach developing the minds of 3,500 of our youth and working, at various times with 5 inner city schools with the highest % of black students in our city of Evansville IN.
My pay? ZERO(but it's not about the money).
While Biden and Pelosi made millions during that time frame and DID ZERO(because it was about the money and votes/power).
Wonderful Chess Tournament
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Started by metmike - March 2, 2020, 4:17 p.m.
