POLICE TRAGEDY – AT 9:06 A.M. ET:  We have always acknowledged at Urgent Agenda that there are some bad cops, and some bad departments.  There has always been a problem with police corruption, which is why departments have internal-affairs divisions.

But the great majority of police officers are not corrupt, not dishonest, and not violent.  Most officers never draw their weapon once in their careers.  These officers are being unfairly tainted by the radical left and their journalistic allies because of the bad behavior of a few.  And the effect is devastating.  From Fox:

Police throughout the nation say they fear a growing anti-cop sentiment driven by a handful of racially-charged incidents is making their jobs more dangerous on the streets, where the number of officers killed in the line of duty is rising sharply.

High-profile cases involving police and black suspects from Missouri to Baltimore have prompted intense criticism of law enforcement, from not only activists but the media and even the White House, leaving law enforcement officers alienated and angry, say cop advocates. And the protests, rioting and federal investigations come even as the job of keeping Americans safe has become more dangerous.

“Nobody goes into law enforcement wanting to be hated," David Cruickshank, a Connecticut police officer and CEO of the Law Enforcement Research Group, told FoxNews.com. "Most get into this line of work for their love of their community.”

Cruickshank and other law enforcement advocates worry that what they see as an anti-cop climate is killing morale in police departments of every size.

While racially tinged incidents are nothing new, the firestorm that erupted with the shooting of an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, last August in Ferguson, Missouri, has been followed by a grand jury's decision not to indict an NYPD cop in the death of Eric Garner, the death of Freddie Gray while in the custody of Baltimore police and this week's decision by police in Madison, Wis., not to charge a police officer in the March 6 shooting death of an unarmed black youth.

And...

Former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir believes there is a "war on police," and said the flames are being fanned from the nation's highest office.

“After 20 years of incredible crime reduction accomplished by thousands of dedicated police officers, the public has become complacent now that they are safer," said Safir, who led the nation's largest police department from 1996-2000. "They have let the anti-police pundits and talking heads convince everyone from the president to the attorney general that police are racist and brutal.”

COMMENT:  Safir is right.  The left yearns to return to the 1960s.  "Progressives," in truth, are really regressives.  They love high crime rates, and social chaos, because those things confirm their infantile view of society. 

They also love riots.   They know that, after the riots, their pals will demand more money for "social justice," and will probably get it.  Pockets will be lined, but there'll be no more justice than before.

May 15, 2015