Police Killings in America

Typical biased, breathless bulls**t reporting by the media.
This is USA Today's fecal offering:

WASHINGTON — Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.

On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police. The numbers appear to show that the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., last Saturday was not an isolated event in American policing.

Indeed, on the average, 400 people per year are killed by police officers. But this includes all law enforcement personnel, not just locals. And for USA Today to claim that only white police officers are shooting felons is utter trash. There are 430,000 police officers in the US; over 200,000 of them work in cities with a population of 100,000 and over. This is unbelievable. The US Department of Justice Statistics reports, "About 1 in 4 officers were members of a racial or ethnic minority in 2007..." No black officers exercised deadly physical force?

But the police are not the only ones exercising the use of deadly physical force to defend themselves.
Private citizens are also finding themselves in the same situation where they take the life of a felon.

This chart shows the trend for the number of justified homicides  (always investigated by a grand jury or coroner's inquest) by police and private citizens for the past ten years:

Look at the red trend line. In ten years the increase in the number of justified homicides by private citizens is over two and a half times higher (26%) than the police (10%). And if you examine the two five year averages (2003-2007 v. 2008-2012) the citizen involved killings increased three times faster than those of the police (7% v. 20%).

In one year alone (2011 to 2012) the number of felons killed by citizens increased by 15% (from 270 to 310).

Year	Police	Citizen
2003	373	247
2004	367	222
2005	347	196
2006	386	238
2007	391	257
2008	378	265
2009	414	266
2010	397	285
2011	404	270
2012	410	310

(Source: FBI's UCR Expanded Homicides Table 13, 14 & 15 for 2007 and 2012. 
These tables DO NOT capture the race/gender of the felon killed or the officer involved.)

USA Today then manages to smear turd icing on their news cake with this gem:

About 750 agencies contribute to the database, a fraction of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States.

Several media outlets have reported on this so called study and none of them indicate where the study can be found or how the database was complied. If only 750 police agencies reported, then I can only assume that some dipshit university professor wanted to do a study and asked LEA's to send him the information. Of course they flipped him off.

What a bunch of crap. There are over 400 police agencies in New York alone that report monthly UCR numbers to the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services which are then transmitted to the FBI. These statistics incorporate police use of force. That's where the feds get their information.

Is this an infallible system? Of course not. But to print that only 4% of all law enforcement agencies report as required is not only reckless, it's libelous.

IRS Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Judge

From Legal Insurrection:

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement in response to today’s order from Judge Emmet G. Sullivan regarding the recently “lost” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials, which were the subject of longstanding Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. IRS (No. 1:13-cv-1559)):

In an extraordinary step, U. S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan has launched an independent inquiry into the issue of the missing emails associated with former IRS official Lois Lerner. 

Previously, Judge Sullivan ordered the IRS to produce sworn declarations about the IRS email issue by August 11. Today’s order confirms Judicial Watch’s read of this week’s IRS’ filings that treated as a joke Judge Sullivan’s order. 

Judge Sullivan, in his earlier ruling, appointed Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola to manage and assist in discussions between Judicial Watch and the IRS about how to obtain any missing records from other sources. Magistrate Facciola is an expert in e-discovery, and authorized Judicial Watch to submit a request for limited discovery into the missing IRS records after September 10.

Ukraine Attacks Russian Convoy

This is all a Russian plot to interrupt Obama's golf game today. Aha! It will fail!

Putin - you have met your match.

The Ukrainian president said on Friday his country’s armed forces had destroyed part of a Russian military column that had crossed the border in a dramatic escalation of the conflict over Ukraine’s breakaway eastern regions.

President Petro Poroshenko said following a telephone call with Britain’s prime minister David Cameron that “a majority of those machines had been eliminated by Ukrainian artillery” after entering Ukraine’s territory on Thursday night.

Mr Poroshenko said the incident involved dozens of armoured personnel carriers seen by western journalists crossing from Russian territory into Ukraine on Thursday evening. 

However, it was unclear whether the military convoy that was attacked was formally under Russian military command.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato secretary-general, confirmed that Russian forces had crossed into Ukrainian territory on Thursday night.

“We saw a Russian incursion, a crossing of the Ukrainian border,” Mr Rasmussen told reporters after a meeting with the Danish defence minister in Copenhagen.

“It just confirms the fact that we see a continued flow of weapons and fighters from Russia into the eastern Ukraine. And it’s a clear demonstration of the continued Russian involvement in the destabilisation of eastern Ukraine,” he added.

Well played Ukraine.

More here and here.

An Editor Eats Her Own Words

An editor affiliated with Simon & Schuster tried to stifle a book proposal that criticizes the Obama administration.

NEW YORK – An editor who wrote a controversial email explaining she rejected a proposal to publish a book by the platoon mates of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on political grounds has been dismissed, according to her company.

Story here.

This is a short bio of the moonbat.

As publisher and founder of Atria Books, Judith has ultimate responsibility for all the editorial, publishing, and marketing activities of the Atria imprint. Judith believes in creating books that are physically beautiful and that can help to shape the culture in positive, constructive ways. She was the guiding force behind the publishing of the international phenomenon The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (more than 16 million copies sold). Judith is an industry leader in adopting new technologies and developing innovative marketing strategies.

Yep, she just developed another very innovative marketing strategy - she got her ass fired.

The soldiers who knew Bergdahl best speak out:

"There was no way we were going to sit down and be quiet while Obama was calling him a war hero," said Evan Buetow, Bergdahl's former team leader, in an interview with Yahoo News. "We're just trying to tell the truth. It's not my fault this would make Obama look bad."

"We didn't politicize this," added Cody Full, Bergdahl's former roommate. "They brought his parents out at a White House Rose Garden ceremony and presented him as a hero. … Why wouldn't you just have a quiet press release? Why do you have to have a big parade? You don't do that for the parents who have kids who have died in Afghanistan."

I doubt there's time but I hope this book comes out before the November elections.

Blame Anime

The Japs obsession with sex dolls creeps me out.

In a few years they'll be holding the first Miss Latex Universe competition. If these things ever reach America, the democrats will want them to be able to vote and collect SSI.

 A Japanese company claims to have reached the next level in developing the most genuine looking sex doll which comes complete with realistic feeling skin and authentic looking eyes.

Orient Industry say their new range of dolls, made from high quality silicon, are so realistic there is very little to distinguish them from a real girlfriend at first glance.  

The dolls, which are non inflatable, are sold under the name 'Dutch Wives', a Japanese term for a sex doll, and adverts in the media boast that anyone who buys one will never want a real girlfriend again.

They sell for just over £1,000 each and early sales indicate they are proving to be a success.

Enough! This screams for some kind of intervention. We must immediately send a division of horny Marines to Japan to reprogram their culture. Show them how it's done, jump start the reproductive cycle, save their race and protect our supply of reliable, inexpensive electronics and fuel efficient autos. This is a matter of the highest national priority.

President Obama... melt down these dolls!

And the company behind the dolls are putting their success down to their realistic looking skin and eyes.

They also come with a selection of clothing to prevent the new owner from having to suffer the embarrassment of visiting a lingerie store.

Potential buyers can also customise the dolls, meaning they can chose the bust size, look and hair colour of their doll.

Company spokesman Osami Seto said: 'The two areas we identified as really needing improvement were the skin and the eyes.

'We feel we have finally got something that is arguably not distinguishable from the real thing.'

Latest models of the dolls include movable joints so buyers can place them in any position they wish.

Seriously, we totally screwed these people up when we nuked them.

RIP Robin Williams

What a terrible shame. Robin Williams took his own life. Never saw it coming and I wonder why those close to him didn't either. Failing financially and emotionally the poor soul saw no other way out. I wonder how long it took for him to reach that decision and then do it without his wife or somebody intervening. Could he be that good an actor?

IMHO suicide is a helluva lousy way to self medicate.

Feel Good Story Of The Week

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Breitbart reports that an ISIS instructor accidentally detonated his suicide belt while instructing a class of splodey dopes.

[...]On Monday, 22 class attendees were obliterated by their teacher/commander who unwittingly detonated his army belt laden with explosives, according to Iraqi army and police officials. Up to fifteen additional terrorists were wounded in the explosion.

The militants belonged to a group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is fighting the army of the Iraqi government composed mostly of Shiites. They have been connected to bomb attacks throughout Iraq and other areas in the Middle East, and are known for inflaming sectarian violence throughout the region.

Nothing beats a Muslim Go As You Are partayh.

But They're Good At Murdering Their Own...

The poor Palestinian said to his family, "It's a living."

No it's not.

Hamas said to have executed dozens of tunnel diggers
Any excavator who was suspected of collaborating with Israel was killed, Israeli website reports

Story here.

They Stink At Fighting and Demonstrating

A handful of Pali sympathizers demonstrating against Israel in NYC's Diamond District (W 47th St and 5th Ave).

Wait until about the 2:00 mark when the pro-Israel supporters show up and eventually take up the entire street.