Police Reform Badly Needed; Not Racial Incitement

 There will never be needed police reform if the focus on police cannot move beyond race and identity politics.

Race and identity politics are a business. There are those that profit from racial incitement and division. 

There needs to be an end to numbers game police work. Few if any so called police reformers even know what this is.

Real community policing must move away from the hands of ivory tower clueless academics. More cops need to be on the ground, on foot, serving the basic mission of serve and protect through patrol. Cops must not be used to generate meaningless statistics that do nothing to make communities safer. 

Police departments need to be lean. Layers of bureaucrats and upper echelon personal drain money from having cops on the streets. In urban areas, dedicated cops are needed on foot, walking beats where they become integral parts of the communities they serve. No able bodied cop should be at a desk job. Supervisors need to be streamlined, and must be out on the streets. Police departments must not be mired in petty politics, cronyism,  clout or political favoritism. Good, level headed cops on patrol that know how to properly escalate or de-escalate situations are what is needed, not defunded police. Defund the waste, but not the much needed basic police mission.

When Calls To 911 Suspend Civil Rights And Police Respond Poorly

 There are people that call 911 because they want the police to harass someone they do not like or because they do not like the way someone looks. There are people in law enforcement that do not understand that a call to 911 does not mean the person called upon has his or her civil rights suspended. When law enforcement officials get upset or angry because the person that is the target of the unjustified call to 911 gets upset or angry, situations that never should escalate end up escalating. There are those in law enforcement that do not understand how to handle another person's anger or upset frame of mind. People can get upset or angry when they are subject to harassment by police simply because someone called 911 and they know they have done nothing illegal or criminal. Calling 911 on someone does not make that someone a criminal.

 People need to be held accountable for when they unjustly call 911. This happens far too often. There is rarely a consequence for falsely calling the police on someone. Some people that are not criminals end up getting falsely arrested because they do not react calmly or submissively in their interactions with police, especially when the police are called on them for no real reason. 

Violence is never acceptable. But anger itself is not a crime. Many emotionally disturbed people cannot tone themselves down when confronted by law enforcement. And far too many in law enforcement see any sign of non violent defiance as a criminal act. Good cops must be level headed. They must know when to properly escalate a situation, and when to properly de-escalate a situation. They must understand that just because someone had 911 called on them does not make that person a police target whose civil rights are suspended. If a cop or deputy cannot understand how to handle people that are upset or angry without becoming upset or angry him or herself, they do not belong on the job.

Thin Skinned Cops, Numbers Game Policing

 There are people in law enforcement are too thin skinned for the job. They are easily provoked and are clueless about how to de-escalate situations. A good cop knows how to de-escalate situations, and how to properly escalate situations that call for escalation. Some cops are good social workers but lousy cops. They can de-escalate situations but fail to properly escalate situations that call for escalation. Other cops are lousy cops because they are poor de-escalators, or lack the ability to distinguish between when escalation is needed, and when de-escalation is needed. 

Police departments that practice numbers game police work favor the escalator. Thin skinned cops should be a thing of the past. Same for numbers game police work, which unfortunately remains alive and well, completely ignored or unchallenged, or completely off the radar of many clueless police reformers.

Stock Markets And The Illusion Of Wealth

 The more the environment is degraded and polluted, the more is lost collectively. The center of wealth is believed to be stock markets, not the health of the environment or anything else. Stock markets rise as the world deteriorates. There is a difference between individual wealth and collective wealth. Ultimately, collective wealth, not individual wealth, shapes our future.

 Enormous energy and effort goes into stock markets. Much depends on it continued ascent. Our pensions, our economic stability, our economic futures. Labor has long been devalued while speculation gets rewarded. The stock market rises as the environment and life for billions deteriorates. The consequence of making the stock market the only game in town and the definer of wealth is not beneficial, to say the least.

Gulf Of Mexico. The Cost Of Killing Nature

People have not yet totally destroyed the Gulf of Mexico. In places where the Gulf of Mexico is badly polluted and contaminated, coastal property can barely be given away. Signs caution against entering polluted, high bacteria count waters that will make someone sick. The ocean there is a dead zone.

In Florida, where the waters of the Gulf are still okay, the value of coastal properties is astronomical. But one day, when the gulf waters of Florida are just as badly polluted, smelly and contaminated as the waters in some other states, the property values will plummet. 

None of this has to happen. Unchecked development, greed and selfishness makes this inevitable if nothing changes. 

Everyone wants the perfect lawn and landscaping, no matter the chemical, pesticide and fertilizer load and how this kills the Gulf and its marine life. 

All over the world, development in all it forms, properties, agriculture, industry, tourism, recreation, commercial development, commercial fishing, and so forth, is given precedence over conservation. The more the environment is degraded and contaminated, the more lives are destroyed from a multiplicity of ways, and the less there is a quality of life. 

People are fanatical about their politics, their religions, their hatreds, but not so for the lands and seas upon which all depend.

One day when the ecological disaster that is the Gulf of Mexico in one region moves to the not yet destroyed region where people live blissfully unaware of how close the ecological disaster is and how quickly it can expand, the Florida economy will collapse. This can all still be prevented.

The future of mankind does not depend on politics, economics, religion or any man made endeavor. It depends on what we do to the environment, and what it will do in return.

The Country Held Hostage By Violent Jihadists And Their Foreign Master

 There is no country in the world except one where a private army is openly funded, supplied, and supported by a foreign country, and in which the private army is far stronger and better equipped than the army of the state itself. The private army wages war on foreign soil and holds its own country hostage by its military power. 

A private army driven by religious fanaticism and jihad, not by loyalty to the country itself. 

The private army and its business arms operated the port where highly explosive material was improperly kept and stored, and where many people died or were wounded, with enormous property damage, when the material exploded. All due to corruption and greed. 

The private army justifies itself by the pretend use of resistance while it is the occupier and foreign mercenary force.  

It is the one that went to Argentina with its foreign country master and blew up a community center, killing and wounding countless civilians.

It is driving a nation into bankruptcy. It will incite war against the country to its south to divert attention from itself. It uses the word resistance to hide its greed, militarism, bloodlust and slavish loyalty to the  violent jihad that it and its foreign master worships.

Corrupt, militaristic powers need foreign enemies to justify their existence. 

There will be a war that never should be, and many people will suffer because of the greed, the fanaticism, the toxic mixture of violent religious fanaticism with politics by an organization intoxicated and consumed by the violent jihadist ideology of its foreign master.