HATING COPS – AT 10:08 A.M. ET:  One of the best writers on our side writing today is Heather MacDonald, who's associated with the conservative Manhattan Institute.  She is a superb researcher, who backs her opinions with solid facts.  She's now taken on the ugly cop-bashing going on in America today, with the support of the Obama administration.  We have seen two officers murdered in New York, and two more wounded this week in Ferguson, Missouri.  MacDonald confronts the haters.  From the New York Post: 

Government-fueled cop hatred has claimed more victims. Two St. Louis-area police officers were shot Wednesday night during a protest outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department, one in the face, the other in the shoulder.

Both are expected to survive, unlike the two New York City police officers assassinated in December.

Such violence is the sadly predictable outcome of the lies about the police that government officials and the media have stoked for the last year.

US Attorney General Eric Holder has done all he can to keep tensions at a boiling point in Ferguson.

This, though his own Justice Department demolished the hoax that a pacific Michael Brown was killed in cold blood by Police Officer Darren Wilson in August.

The Justice report on the Brown shooting, released last week, demolished every myth around the shooting.

It confirmed virtually everything Office Wilson had testified to, including that Brown had attacked Wilson, tried to grab his gun, then charged at Wilson after the officer exited his car.

Read the entire column.  It's well worth it, as is anything by Heather MacDonald.  She concludes:

By now, the media and politicians are on ample notice that their crusade against law enforcement carries deadly risks. There’s no more excuse for inflaming hatred against the police, especially when the allegations used to inflame that hatred are proven untruths.

Officers put their lives on the line every day to protect law-abiding members of poor communities. Increasingly, those officers are at risk not just from thugs but from the rhetoric emanating from the highest reaches of government.

COMMENT:  Well said.  No one is defending bad cops, and there are bad cops.  But the smears of the last months are well beyond reason, and they have put all cops at risk.  While the president and his outgoing attorney general issue the usual "there is no excuse for violence" statements after every incident, their own rhetoric fuels the violence.  Holder has, remarkably, called for a lower standard of proof in civil-rights cases, the better to get the results he wants, even if those results are not justified by the facts. 

March 14, 2015