We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Police use of deadly force is rare in America. You wouldn't know that by listening to some of the blowhards out there: the newspaper, the mainstream media, the race hustlers. They make it seem like this stuff happens several times a day. It's rare.
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
We need to police ourselves in the media.
I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.