{"id":43715,"date":"2016-07-17T22:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43715"},"modified":"2016-07-17T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T02:42:58","slug":"police-murder-because-they-are-trained-to-murder-the-militarization-of-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43715","title":{"rendered":"Police Murder Because They Are Trained To Murder. The Militarization of Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image alignleft\" title=\"Police-Violence-USA-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Police-Violence-USA-1-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Swat officers on the scene of the shooting\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/07\/08\/why-dallas-happened-paul-craig-roberts\/\">my request for information on US police training<\/a>,\u00a0readers have sent in a variety of information that seems to fit together. I am going to assemble it as best I can as a working hypothesis or provisional account.\u00a0 Perhaps a former or current police officer concerned about the change in the behavior of US police, or an expert on police training and practices, will come forward and verify or correct this provisional account.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, we know that the police have been, or are being, militarized.\u00a0 They are armed with weapons of war that hitherto have been used only on battlefields.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know why police are armed in this way, as such weapons are not necessary for policing the American public and are not used in police work anywhere except in Israeli-occupied Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>There is an undeclared agenda behind these weapons, and neither Congress nor the presstitute media have any apparent interest in discovering the hidden agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the militarization of the police fits in with what we know about police training.<\/p>\n<p>There are sourced reports that US police are receiving training from Israel, both from traveling to Israel and in the US from Israeli training firms or from US firms using Israeli methods.<\/p>\n<p>See, for example,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/US-Israel\/homeland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/US-Israel\/homeland.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468327039024000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFkNIf0Vt2ZLitaOpS8BeFVtPAdVA\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/<wbr \/>jsource\/US-Israel\/homeland.<wbr \/>html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/civil-liberties\/us-police-get-antiterror-training-israel-privately-funded-trips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/civil-liberties\/us-police-get-antiterror-training-israel-privately-funded-trips&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468327039025000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEBd153vtAghiZi_wQXyRB0nQF3A\">http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/civil-<wbr \/>liberties\/us-police-get-<wbr \/>antiterror-training-israel-<wbr \/>privately-funded-trips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The training of American police by Israeli occupation forces is not an Internet rumor or \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d\u00a0 It is a fact acknowledged by the Israeli press:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-trains-us-law-enforcement-in-counter-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-trains-us-law-enforcement-in-counter-terrorism\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468327039025000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEcoiyNyO0R4V5jOEnjMsqL3XRwKQ\">http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/<wbr \/>israel-trains-us-law-<wbr \/>enforcement-in-counter-<wbr \/>terrorism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli police practices arose from decades of occupying a hostile Palestinian population while stealing the Palestinians\u2019 land and isolating the population in ghetto enclaves.\u00a0 Essentially, Israeli police practices consist of intimidation and violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/israels-export-occupation-police-tactics\/8485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/israels-export-occupation-police-tactics\/8485&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468327039025000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEluC4Ek0GT_xh5Fk3B6uz7NmQZjg\">http:\/\/electronicintifada.<wbr \/>net\/content\/israels-export-<wbr \/>occupation-police-tactics\/8485<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know from innumerable news reports over many years the behavior of the occupying Israeli Army toward the Palestinian population.\u00a0 In four short words: it is extremely brutal.<\/p>\n<p>For a soldier, especially a female soldier, to execute a child and his mother in the streets of Palestine or in the family\u2019s home requires that soldier to have been desensitized to human life that is not Israeli.\u00a0 This requires Palestinians to have been dehumanized, as the native inhabitants of what is today the United States and Australia were dehumanized by the European immigrants who stole their land.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of this information, we can infer that the Israeli training of US police teaches the police to see only police lives as valuable and the lives of the public as potential threats to police lives.\u00a0 This is why American police often murder a wrongly suspected person and almost always an unarmed one.\u00a0 The examples are numerous.\u00a0 You can spend much of your life just watching on youtube the existing videos of wanton murders of US citizens by police.<\/p>\n<p>The American police are being taught at public expense that only their lives are valuable, not our lives. Therefore, in any encounter with a citizen, the automatic assumption is that the citizen intends harm to the police and must be immediately forcefully subdued and handcuffed or, alternatively, shot dead.\u00a0 The police are trained that the safest thing for the police to do is to terminate the suspect even if it is a soccer mom who forgot to signal a turn while driving her kids to a practice.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the American police have no more obligation to respect the lives and rights of US citizens than the Israeli occupying forces have to respect the lives and rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>This does appear to be an accurate description of the situation.\u00a0 Even the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has blown the whistle on William J. Lewinski, who trains US police to shoot first and he will answer the questions for them in court, on the rare occasion that the wanton murder they committed lands them there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/02\/us\/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/02\/us\/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html?_r%3D1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468327039025000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2g324dHWSirlYdyEs7WoZjjWDrw\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/<wbr \/>08\/02\/us\/training-officers-to-<wbr \/>shoot-first-and-he-will-<wbr \/>answer-questions-later.html?_<wbr \/>r=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What about racism?\u00a0 Racism is the answer put forward by liberals, progressives, the putative leftwing, and by blacks themselves.<\/p>\n<p>There are problems with the racist explanation.\u00a0 One obvious problem is that the American police wantonly murder and brutalize white people also.\u00a0 Just the other day the police murdered a 19 year old white American while he lay on the ground.\u00a0 And the TSA abuses far more whites than it does blacks.\u00a0 See my website for recent examples of both.<\/p>\n<p>A former black police officer provides revealing insight into the real situation.\u00a0 He says that about 15% of a police department consists of people who are there for the right reasons and represent a culture of public service. Another 15% are psychopaths who routinely abuse their power.\u00a0 The remaining 70% of the department goes with whichever of the two cultures prevails.\u00a0 Unfortunately, \u201cthe bad officers corrupt the department\u201d and the Chicago police under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge proves the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/5\/28\/8661977\/race-police-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/5\/28\/8661977\/race-police-officer&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468327039025000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHY5aeQspOGFRpFvXYclGMSxbVBHg\">http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/5\/28\/<wbr \/>8661977\/race-police-officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former black police officer assigns blame to \u201cinstitutional racism.\u201d\u00a0 However, based on what we have learned about Israeli police training, the police bias against black Americans might not be racist or totally racist.\u00a0 Blacks in America have a history of dehumanization.\u00a0 In the eyes of police trainers, American blacks fit the mold of Palestinians. It is easier to begin the training process by making American police indifferent to the lives of an already dehumanized element of the US population. Once the police are indoctrinated to see themselves not as servants of the people but as \u201cexceptional, indispensable people\u201d whose lives must never be at risk, it is a simple matter to generalize the feeling of police superiority over the white population as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been suspicious of the racist explanation.\u00a0 This is an explanation fed to the public in order to break the public into waring factions that cannot unite against their real oppressors. Indoctrinated as we are to hate and fear one another, those who rule and abuse us can do as they will.<\/p>\n<p>It is as clear as a clear day that only a tiny percentage of white Americans belong to the One Percent.\u00a0 The rest of us are of no more consequence to those who rule than are blacks. Yet, we are divided, fearful of and opposed to one another.\u00a0 What a success for the One Percent !<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear.\u00a0 Just as we oppose the mentality of violence that is being inculcated into the police who live on our earnings, numerous Jews and Israelis themselves oppose the settler mentality that the Israeli government has come to represent. Jews are among the most ardent defenders of human rights of our time. Think of Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky Ilan Pappe, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Think of the brave Israeli organizations that oppose the theft of Palestinian lands and villages.\u00a0 We cannot damn an entire people for the sins of their political masters.\u00a0 If so, then after Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, all Americans are damned.<\/p>\n<p>The two greatest threats to the world are American and Israeli exceptionalism.\u00a0 It is the success of the indoctrination of this Nazi doctrine of exceptionalism that is the source of the violence in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of American police violence is that the police are now defined as exceptional and unaccountable. They can kill the rest of us without accountability, just as Washington slaughters untold numbers of peoples in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan. Unexceptional peoples are dispensable.<\/p>\n<p>It is paradoxical that training US police in the violent methods of the Israeli occupying forces is justified with the argument that it is necessary to save American lives from terrorists when the actual result is far more Americans killed by police than by terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the police training is counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem that the families of those murdered and abused by police have good grounds for suing mayors, city councils, county commissioners, governors and state legislators for negligence in police oversight.\u00a0 The evidence is in.\u00a0 The police are taking lives, not saving them.\u00a0 The training is a total failure.\u00a0 Yet it persists.\u00a0 This is a high order of negligence and failure by public authorities.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/police-murder-because-they-are-trained-to-murder-the-militarization-of-law-enforcement\/5535399\">http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/police-murder-because-they-are-trained-to-murder-the-militarization-of-law-enforcement\/5535399<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}